Epson Stylus(R) CX7400, Epson Stylus CX8400 and Epson Stylus CX9400Fax Offer More Features, Benefits Than Comparably Priced Competitors

Epson’s Newest Line of All-In-Ones Enhance Productivity and Convenience for Busy Office and Home Environments

Epson America, Inc. is launching a line of fully featured, versatile ink jet all-in-ones that enhance productivity and convenience for the small office and home office environments. The Epson Stylus CX7400 and Epson Stylus CX8400 include a wide range of technologies optimized to fulfill virtually all day-to-day business and personal printing, copying and scanning needs that generally involve the use of plain paper, while the flagship Epson Stylus CX9400Fax adds high-speed color faxing capability with an automatic document feeder.

Building on Epson’s 40-years of experience delivering innovative printing products, these all-in-ones also provide ideal solutions for novice digital camera owners who occasionally want to print photos on photo paper with or without a computer.

“These high-performing, versatile, yet affordable all-in-ones are smart choices for business users as well as families who want to make a good impression with high-quality, durable documents,” said Tom Piche, product manager, Consumer Ink Jet Printers, Epson. “Head-to-head, this lineup offers more features and better image quality than competitive models. For all your day-to-day printing needs, whether text or photo, these are the products you want.”

The Epson CX7400 is the most aggressively priced product in the company’s new generation of ink jet all-in-ones. A key advantage over competing products priced below $70 is the overall combination of easy-to-use features and performance it delivers to customers who generally use plain and/or recycled paper for most of their printing and copying. The Epson CX7400 delivers both black and color text printing as well as copies at up to 28 ppm/cpm. It also prints 4″x6″ borderless photos in as fast as 27 seconds(3).

Value-Packed Epson CX8400 Offers Greater Productivity

The Epson CX8400 is the most value-packed all-in-one ink jet solution on the market for less than $100. It has all the benefits of the Epson CX7400, but offers even more productivity with even faster speeds, producing both black and color text documents at up to 32 ppm and copies up to 30 cpm. It prints 4″x 6″ borderless photos in as fast as 26 seconds(3). Additionally the 2.5-inch, tilt LCD features simple, intuitive menus and offers easy viewing, selecting, copying, and printing of photos without a computer. Users can also adjust the copy density to achieve the best results.

Flagship Epson CX9400Fax Most Feature-Rich for Office Needs

The flagship model in the lineup is the Epson CX9400Fax. Building on the Epson CX8400, the Epson CX9400Fax is a fully-loaded 5-in-1 solution that offers all the features and functions business people need and want from an ink jet all-in-one, printing plain paper documents, scanning, copying, manipulating and printing photos, and faxing. The high-speed color fax (33.6 Kbps) and convenient built-in 30-page Automatic Document Feeder enable users to fax, copy and scan stacks of important color or black-and-white documents in seconds, including legal size documents, for the greatest versatility. This all-in-one offers a number of other convenient features for busy executives, including a 60-number speed dial, up to 100 pages of memory, automatic redial, auto answer, and usage reports. The fax also features Caller ID with distinctive ring tone capabilities.

Connectivity and Operating Systems

The three all-in-ones support Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and are compatible with Windows Vista(TM), XP Professional x64, XP, and 2000, as well as Macintosh OS(R) X 10.2.8, 10.3.9, 10.4.x or later.

Availability and Support

The Epson CX7400 and Epson CX8400 are now shipping and will be available for estimated street prices of $69.99 and $99.99, respectively, while the Epson CX9400Fax will be shipping in October and will be available for an estimated street price of $149.99 in major computer, office, mass merchant, and electronic superstores and can also be purchased through mail order, PC manufacturers, the Internet, and Epson’s own retail site, http://www.epsonstore.com/. The all-in-ones are backed by the one-year Epson Limited Warranty and supported by telephone, e-mail and Web-based customer support and technical assistance. More information about Epson and its products is available by calling 1-800-GO-EPSON (1-800-463-7766) or visiting the Epson Web site at http://www.epson.com/.

About Epson

Epson offers an extensive array of award-winning digital imaging products for the consumer, business, photography, and graphic arts markets. The company is also a leading supplier of value-added point-of-sale (POS) printers and transaction terminals for the retail market. Founded in 1975, Epson America Inc. is the U.S. affiliate of Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, a global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality technology products that meet customer demands for increased functionality, compactness, systems integration and energy efficiency. Epson America Inc. is headquartered in Long Beach, Calif.