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[Antony]

Some of you might know that I bought a Brother MFC-240C all-in-one printer in January. The main reason I bought it was that I need a scanner, and Brother MFC-240C is the cheapest one that comes with ADF (Automatic Document Feeder).

Last week for some unknown reason, I feel like to have a CD/DVD printer. And I found Epson Stylus Photo R230 is the cheapest inkjet that can print directly on CD/DVD surface (with those printable ones).



Besides the CD/DVD printing I want, the good thing (or the bad thing) about Epson Stylus Photo R230 is that it uses 6 colours.

I made a comparison of colour printings.



I think it is safe to say the print on the right looks a lot brighter. You can see the unresized photo of the comparison shot above. (Warning: 172KB file size). The prints do not have such noticeable grains as you can see in the large photo, it was due to the wrong ISO setting.

For more detail, please refer to this blog entry.

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[Antony]

This is the output comparison on photo paper.


The picture on the left is printed from Brother MFC-240C with photo quality setting. The picture on the right is printed from Epson R230, with Epson's photo paper setting. I think it is safe to say that the photo on the right looks brighter.

If you compared above picture on the left (photo paper) to the first picture one on the left (plain paper), the improvement is amazing in my opinion. Of course, Epson does a better job on printing photo. But the comparison is not fair in this case as I in first post. Brother MFC-240C uses only 4 colours while Epson is a 6-colour inkjet printer.

So the conclusion is simple: if you want good colour output... get a 6-colour inkjet printer and use photo paper.

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[Edward]

Other than black, red, cyan and yellow, what are the other two colors that the Epson uses?

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[Antony]

Other than black, red, cyan and yellow, what are the other two colors that the Epson uses?

It's actually 'magenta', not red.

The other two are light cyan and light magenta.

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[Antony]

Just to add a comparison on plain paper output with Epson AcuLaser C1100N (4-colour laser printer).


Print outs were on plain A4 paper, from left to right are printed by Brother MFC-240C, Epson Stylus Photo R230, Epson AcuLaser C1100N. They are 4-colour inkjet, 6-colour inkjet, and 4-colour laser respectively.

Unresized photo is available here.

In my opinion, the print out by laser is better than 6-colour inkjet on plain paper, although not by a huge degree. However, using photo paper with inkjet printer would result an even better output.

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[Sonadow]

just a quickie:

the print quality on brother printers has been declining rapidly. Even their budget mono laser printer printed out horrible text as compared to an even cheaper samsung budget mono laser.

so , note of advice to anyone looking for printers: dont. buy. brother. period.

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[Antony]

just a quickie:

the print quality on brother printers has been declining rapidly. Even their budget mono laser printer printed out horrible text as compared to an even cheaper samsung budget mono laser.

so , note of advice to anyone looking for printers: dont. buy. brother. period.

I am starting to dislike my Brother multi-function printer, allow I mainly use it for scanner.

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[Antony]

As I mentioned earlier, I bought Epson Stylus Photo R230 with one thing in my mind... print on CD/DVD media directly.

Just to show a photo of the output:


Those are the TV shows I recorded with EyeTV, and encoded in H.264 video codec.

An inkjet printable CD/DVD is required, such as TDK's PrintOn DVD I use.

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