Epson Stylus S20 Reviews: Epson Budget Colour Inkjet Printer

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Score: 7.9/10

103 Real Customer Reviews - In Summary

+ This printer has no outstanding positive points. - It scores very poorly on speed. “It's narrow and fits into a small space. the draft printing is good.” Anonymous verified purchaser View all 103 real customer reviews

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103 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
76% of people recommend it.

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All purchasers (101)
Compatibility8.3
Print quality8.3
Speed6.3
Value for money (at time of purchase)8.4
Overall rating7.9
Occasional home user (4)
Frequent home user (2)
Other (95)
 

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Score 5.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It's narrow and fits into a small space. The draft printing is good.

- Print time is quite slow and it's noisy. My black cartridge has been problematic. I don't think it was being recognised by the printer and I had to change it for a new one after printing one A4 photo and about less that 15 pages of draft black text. Maybe I just have a problem with my printer. I'm waiting to see what it reacts like to a different cartridge. If it was actually empty then it's poor ink economy.
Also, if you're buying it because you have limited depth space, you should know that the power cable connection isn't inset at the printer end and sticks out about an inch and a half out the back - I had to cut a hole in my desk so I could sit the printer fully on my narrow shelf.

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74 of 76 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Sep 2008

Score 9.0/10

John, Colchester essex

+ Very easy to use and looks good. Produces nice pictures and easy to change ink etc. Good product.

- A bit slow printing but looks good.

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45 of 45 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Dec 2008

Score 8.0/10

Mike , Shoreham-by-Sea , “Retired IT Guy”

+ For the money it is very good value and looks good

- Noisy when printing and print cartridges are expensive

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43 of 44 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Nov 2008

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “have had 6 different ”

+ cheap

- sounds like a tank, cartridge problems straight away with black becoming " incompatable " after half a pages use. very short cartridge life.

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41 of 42 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 Oct 2008

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ None spring to mind.

- Slow, noisy and the black ink cartridge had to be replaced within 3 days.

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26 of 26 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Sep 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “i am a student”

+ Easy to install and get going.

- No connection cable (to connect printer to computer) supplied!

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24 of 25 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Oct 2008

Score 9.0/10

Helen, Finzean, Banchory , “no ”

+ quick to print

- will not print if only a few sheets of paper in printer

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22 of 22 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 Dec 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Small, very lightweight, ideal for taking on trips etc.

- Noisy!

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23 of 26 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Dec 2008

Score 10.0/10

Penny, Coventry

+ Fast, quiet, easy to install, quality of printing is great.

- Can;'t find any bad points about the printer

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21 of 22 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Jan 2009

Score 1.0/10

Peter, Marlborough , “PC & network literate”

+ Small

- Uses ink cartridges very quickly.
Irritatingly slow.
The printer does not recognise some Epson cartridges and refuses to print until replaced by another (Epson) cartridge.

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19 of 19 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Sep 2008

Score 4.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Very temprimental keeps telling me it is out of black ink. Turn off then it will print. Does not like to work on different computers.

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17 of 17 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Oct 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It is cheap and perfectly functional. I only wanted an ink jet printer. I already have a scanner and I don't want a fax

- It is slow

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17 of 17 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Nov 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Noisy
Slower than expected

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18 of 19 people found this review helpful

purchased 17 Nov 2008

Score 9.0/10

David, Liverpool , “Student needing cheap printer!”

+ Good simple printer, great for occasional prints and the like. Good value for money also and cartridges are relatively inexpensive compared to other brands.

- Paper holder is a bit flimsy, caused paper not to print straight on one occasion, although this is hasn't been a problem again.

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16 of 17 people found this review helpful

purchased 22 Oct 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ price

- very very noisy, slow, print quality for photos not as good as my previous printer

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14 of 14 people found this review helpful

purchased 31 Oct 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Graduate Student”

+ Cheap!

- Draft quality too poor/fast and Normal quality too good/slow...

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12 of 12 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Nov 2008

Score 10.0/10

Pam, Ashford

+ Excellent value - perfect for small user - photo quality really good too.

- none so far.

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11 of 11 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Oct 2008

Score 1.0/10

najah , Hatfield , “longlasting ink”

+ cheap

- the ink finishes in a second

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10 of 10 people found this review helpful

purchased 19 Oct 2008

Score 8.0/10

Kevin, sheffield

+ Reasonable cost, great quality printing, text and graphics.

- A bit slow.

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10 of 10 people found this review helpful

purchased 02 Nov 2008

Score 9.0/10

Richard, Guildford , “life long Mac user”

+ Remarkably natural looking Photo printing colour despite only 4 ink system.
So inexpensive.

- Reviewer left no comment

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10 of 10 people found this review helpful

purchased 22 Oct 2008

Score 9.0/10

John, Nottingham , “married kids poor available”

+ Fantastic print quality

- Noisy

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Oct 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ works ok

- uses too much ink

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 Oct 2008

Score 8.0/10

Joe, Newport Pagnell , “Student”

+ Excellent quality of build and software

- Ink drain and thus a money drain

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Oct 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anne, Poulton-le-Fylde , “computer novice”

+ Runs so quietly

- Not yet found any faults

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 22 Oct 2008

Score 10.0/10

Michael, Birmingham

+ Neat looking and simplicity

- Slow

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5 of 5 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 Oct 2008

Score 8.0/10

Arthur, Belfast , “love photography”

+ Quality

- Speed and NOISE

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5 of 5 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Oct 2008

Score 6.0/10

Ian, Oxford , “speak nothing but truth”

+ fairly good quality pictures

- Loud and fairly slow

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 25 Aug 2008

Score 9.0/10

Belinda, Telford

+ Cheep to buy cheep to run. A Nice machine

- Just wish it was a little faster.

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Oct 2008

Score 6.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Good Value

- Paper feed

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 19 Oct 2008

Score 4.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Print quality
Price

- Very very slow
Ver cheap build quality

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Oct 2008

Score 4.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It woks and the print quality is very good

- It prints VERY slowly and the build quality (robstness of casing, etc.) is poor.

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Jan 2009

Score 9.0/10

David , Kendal , “keen on photography”

+ Very good print quality for the cost of the machine

- A little bit on the slow side and tends to be noisy, but I can live with this.

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Feb 2009

Score 10.0/10

john, bolton

+ price.quality.cost of replacement cartridges.easy to set up.

- none so far

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4 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Mar 2009

Steve, London

+ Low cost Printer

- Very slow, especially on switch on.
Make sure you turn it on a few minutes before you want to use it because god knows what it does for several minutes whilst it warms up.
Also the black catridge that came with the machine failed to be recognised by the printer 5 days after installation and had to quickly buy a replacement. Fortunately it hasn't happened again but it doesn't fill you with confidence that the catridge IC recognition chip system works reliably.
And also its not particularily quiet whist printing.

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5 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 06 Apr 2009

Score 8.0/10

steve, whittlesey

+ good print quality

- bit slow

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 16 Sep 2008

Score 9.0/10

richar, nottingham

+ a very good product at a very reasonable price

- (minor point)turning on seems to be a long and noisy affair

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 26 Jan 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ excellent printer in every respect for the ordanary user , i do like the catridge changing explanatary software

- slow on start up

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 31 Jan 2009

Score 9.0/10

james, bingley

+ it's a very simple printer to use, easy to install too, prints crystal clear in black and white, reasonable quality in colour.
over all it's a good printer for a small price tag.
good quality a nd excellant value for money.

- does rattle a little, a little slow, but these a tiny faults.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Feb 2009

Score 8.0/10

PIERE., HANTS , “RETIRED.”

+ VALUE FOR MONEY AT TIME OF PURCHASE. PHOTO PRINTING IS GOOD.
TEXT PRINTING ALSO GOOD.

- A NOISY AND SLOW PRINTER. SEEMS TO USE THE INKS UP VERY QUICKLY. COULD PROVE EXPENSIVE ON INKS, IF YOU DO MUCH PRINTING.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Mar 2009

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Good quality prints and cheap

- Seems to use up lots of ink

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 22 Feb 2009

Score 6.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Will work with both PC and Mac

- Too noisy and uses too much ink compared to my previous Epson

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 01 Apr 2009

Score 10.0/10

Adam, Swaffham , “Not easy to please”

+ Bought this printer for my Father in law and havn't heard a complaint since! Lovely prints and very easy to use so a superb printer for very lttle money.

- Reviewer left no comment

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Mar 2009

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “mind your own business”

+ price

- noise ans size

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3 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 25 Jan 2009

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ size and quality and appearance

- prmeinting timeand speed

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2 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 Oct 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Good photo quality

- Noisy

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Feb 2009

Score 9.0/10

Bob, Birmingham

+ Good print quality for the price

- Could be quieter

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Feb 2009

Score 10.0/10

Cassie, Manchester

+ Easy to set up.
Good print quality, both colour and black and white.
Good value for money.

- Some epson inks can be expensive.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 22 Mar 2009

Score 8.0/10

Tony, Norwich

+ Neat in appearance

- Nil so far

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 05 Apr 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ cheap and cheerful

- noisy.don't like the paper catchment tray.cheap and plasticy

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Apr 2009

Score 8.0/10

kenneth, dundee

+ easy to use

- slow printing

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Jun 2009

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ quality of the print.

- noise of the printer when it is warming up

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 05 Mar 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Basic printing is good. Great value for money

- A bit on the slow side

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Mar 2009

Score 5.0/10

Mark, Brough

+ Cheap Ink

- Noisy

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 Mar 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Very good value for money.

- None

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 Mar 2009

Score 9.0/10

Alurie, Manchester

+ GOOD CLEAR PRINTING

- NOISY!

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 May 2009

Score 10.0/10

Christine, Cambridgeshire , “Occasional home user” More like this »

+ I have allways had Epson I think they are the best

- Reviewer left no comment

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 10 Jun 2009

Score 7.0/10

chris, royston

+ cheap, neat & compact, individual carts that seem to be cheaply available

- noisy paper loader

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purchased 19 Jul 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It looks smart. It does the job. First print of photos was brilliant, not printed any since but well impressed.

- Ink runs out before you know it. Am trying not to print photos because of it. No problems at all. I've always had Epson printers so much the same to use.

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purchased 21 Jul 2009

Score 5.0/10

sabine , winchester

+ print quality

- speed , cost of ink ,

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purchased 26 Feb 2009

Score 10.0/10

Louise, Thorne , “Occasional home user” More like this »

+ I have printed photos on plain paper and they have come out beautifully.

- A bit "clunky".

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purchased 17 Jul 2009

Score 8.0/10

Philip, Ely

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Noise

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purchased 08 Aug 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ ideal printer for a student printing homework, excellent value for money, quick and easy to install

- only bad point is that is is quite noisy, but thats not a problem

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purchased 17 Aug 2009

Score 5.0/10

mary, wistow nr selby , “Occasional home user” More like this »

+ printer is efficient clear printing

- noisy and rather slow

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purchased 08 Aug 2009

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Product Features

Print Technology Inkjet
Photo Printer No
WiFi No
LCD Display No
Ethernet No
PictBridge No
Memory Card Slot No
Maximum Paper Size A4
Print Colour Colour
Bluetooth No
Portable No
Film or Slide Scanner No
Number of Colours (incl. Black) 4
Height in mm 280
Width in mm 500
Depth in mm 240
Print Resolution (dpi) 5760x1440
Release Date 29 Jul 2008
Dimensions (mm) 500x280x240

Also known as: EPSON STYLUS S2, Epson S20

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Manufacturer's Description

The Epson Stylus S20 is perfect for all your home printing, from text to A4 lab-quality borderless photos.


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