Epson Stylus NX625 Review

The Epson Stylus NX625 is another affordable, multipurpose printer for home use by NX. Although its predecessor, the NX515, offers better text quality, this printer is faster, in addition to being more well-rounded, compared to the extremely fast 515.

The NX625 measures 6.7″ x 22.2″ x 17″ (HWD) and weighs 13.7 lbs. With a150-sheet tray, it is capable of holding 50 more sheets than the 515. A feature that you will find in the new model and not its predecessor is an automatic duplexer, enabling you to print on both sides of the paper. The tilt-up front panel of the printer has a 2.5″ color LCD. A feature that you won’t find in this model is the slot for printing from USB thumb drives/cameras with PictBridge; however, it has slots for different types of memory cards. The platen of this model’s flatbed scanner is suitable for up to A4 size paper. The automatic document feeder (ADF) is not available with the NX625.

You can use the NX625 for printing, scanning, and copying, printing from different memory cards, scanning to an e-mail program. You can also use it as a copier. Epson provides full sets of drivers for Windows 7, 32- and 64-bit Vista, and XP, and versions 10.4.11 to 10.6.x of Mac OS X.

The text quality that Epson Stylus NX625 has to offer is what you usually expect from inkjets these days. In the font test, most of the fonts could easily read at six points. One of the test fonts met that standard at 4 locations. Most of the fonts were easily readable at 10 points; however, two stylized ones that had heavy strokes needed a more prominent type for meeting that threshold. The quality was good for school/general business documents; however, for a text that is created to leave an impression, such as a resume, it’s a matter of your choice.
The graphics were also what you usually expect from inkjet MFPs. There were small issues, such as dithering (breaking down of solids areas into faint dotted patterns), banding (traversing of solids areas by soft, parallel light lines); and breaking of thin lines. The graphic quality was acceptable for general business documents, including handouts made in MS PowerPoint.

The quality of printed photos was what seen in drugstore prints. The tone of the images was light, and the colors were a little muted. The printer also tended to miss delicate lines. No tent found in the mono test; however, the image had some minor artifacts: two lines consisting of tiny white dots.

The Epson Stylus NX625 is extremely fast and provides a stable output. While the NX515 has the edge over it in text quality, the 625 provides enough value to beat its predecessor, especially as they are in a comparable price range.