My current printer is an Epson Stylus Photo RX620 combined printer and scanner.

Although the machine is larger than either my previous printer or scanner it does the same work as both of them while taking up less space than both of them together. It prints fairly fast(at least as quickly as my previous printer).

Scans are slightly slower, mainly because my old scanner was a Firewire machine and this is USB, but the difference is not very great and the scan quality seems much better. I use it for scanning in text. I also use it for scanning in photos, though not as much as I used to since I got a digital camera. I have occasionally used its photocopy capability to duplicate vital documents. Although not as fast as the copying machines I have used at Kinkos, it was reasonably fast and altogether free.

I also got to use scratch paper making it even cheaper :). I have used it to print quite a bit of text at which it has performed well.

The original ink cartridges printed excellently. When I needed replacement ink cartridges I bought cheaper non-OEM cartridges and at first they gave me trouble, but after cleaning the heads a couple times, the printer performed as well as before I changed ink cartridges.

I have also printed a lot of photographs an rendered images both on photo paper and plain white printer paper. I found the results to be very good. The plain paper prints seemed a bit lighter and more washed out than with my previous machine, but the paper wasn't as damp and didn't roll up as badly. Photo paper prints were beautiful; better than any machine I've previously used.

I would rate this printer at 4.5 out of 5

Lyn's Note: The Epson Stylus RX620 Ink Cartridges are a 6 Cartridge Ink System. It uses The T048120 Black, T048220 Cyan, T048320 Magenta, T048420 Yellow, T048520 Light Cyan and T048620 Light Magenta