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The cost of printer ink cartridges is the biggest consideration when buying an inkjet printer especially a budget printer. The Epson Stylus SX200 is a budget multifunction printer that promises to be affordable as well as versatile. Epson SX200 ink cartridges are made up of four individual Epson ink cartridges which is a positive thing because it means you only have to change one colour at a time and no ink is wasted. The first thing to mention about the SX200 is it’s printing speed, although Epson says it’s capable of an impressive 34 pages per minute this is a greatly exaggerated figure as in the real world it’s along capable of 4ppm in a good quality setting. This is painfully slow even for a entry level printer, so if you’re looking for a work horse the SX200 is definitely not for you. If you don’t mind waiting the SX200 actually prints at a very high quality, it prints all the usual text documents as well as photos up to A4 size. The build quality of this printer is very good the materials are solid and it well constructed and backed up with a 12 mouth repair or replace warranty from Epson. The SX200 is also very well designed it compact and shouldn’t look out of place with any other IT equipment you might already have. At the end of the day the Stylus SX200 is a very cheap printing so you can’t expect miracles, we just expected more from the printing speed.