The Epson AcuLaser C1600 is a colour laser printer designed for the small office and home business market. This printer is designed to produce high quality dependable business level prints at a manageable cost. The C1600 has a small footprint suitable for home or small office spaces, a multi-purpose tray that can handle multiple document types, and a 200 sheet printing capacity. The Epson C1600 toner cartridges are designed to keep toner costs as low as possible while still providing professional monochrome and colour printing. The C1600 manages to offer a low cost business quality colour laser printing solution to home users and small office settings.
Design
The Epson C1600 offers 19 pages per minute in black and white and 5 pages per minute in colour. The printer can produce work with a detail level of 1,200 x 600 dpi and has a duty cycle of 35,000 pages per month. The printer connects through USB 2.0 and has a time to first print of 13 seconds for black and white and 22 seconds for colour. The C1600 does not offer network connectivity. This printer is energy efficient and has a footprint of 40.4 x 38 x 27.5 cm. The AcuLaser C1600 can output up to 100 sheets at a time.
Advantages
With low power usage and inexpensive high capacity Epson C1600 toner cartridges, this printer is a good solution for home and small business users who occasionally need to produce a high quality laser printed colour document alongside a larger monochrome printing load. For a user who has no need for the multi-function standard that is currently the norm, the C1600 can make a solid printer.
Disadvantages
The lack of networking makes this printer an unsuitable choice for anything but single users, which limits the AcuLaser's use for all but home offices and a few small businesses. The colour printing speed on this printer is slow enough that it makes large colour printing orders a slow proposition, though black and white prints at an acceptable speed. For the listed price a selection multi-function devices and faster colour laser printers are readily available, making the Epson AcuLaser C1600 an unsuitable choice for many.
