Budget Epson printer of the past have always had a cheap and nasty feel about them but the new range of Epson stylus seem to have made some improvements on this. The latest offer the Stylus SX200 has a solid robust feel and like previous models is backed up by a 12 month warranty but the SX200 feels like it’s less likely to be needed than previous Epson styluses. The SX200 adopts the same four individual four colour printer ink system seen in other Epson printers in this class and although the genuine Epson ink cartridges are expensive at £30 a set the availability of compatible Epson SX200 ink cartridges makes it cheap to run. Performance on paper look impressive for the SX200 with a maximum printing resolution of 5760 x 1440 dpi and maximum printing speed of 34ppm (pages per minute). While the high print resolution converts into great print result for all types of documents the 34ppm claim is not so accurate. The maximum speed we could get out of the SX200 was 15ppm in draft mode which is barely readable, in a decent quality the speed reduces to 4ppm. The SX200 also has copying and scanning capabilities which work well for a variety of documents, the copy is a able to work with the need for a PC as does another function of the SX200 – direct photo printing from memory cards. In general the SX200 is a good all rounder with some useful features and proves to be good value for money.