Text was crisp and black, achieving a laser printer quality sheen when printed on high-resolution inkjet paper. Also impressive was the sharp text quality on plain bond paper. However, this is achieved only if you use the high-quality printing mode, which slows down printing. Photographic images are handled well by the Epson printer. Resolution was excellent.
Tones are always natural with fine tonal differences easily discernable.
During our testing, banding was also non-existent, even on tough printouts featuring solid, block colours. Unfortunately, quality came at the expense of speed. If you want to use the best resolution and imaging settings, expect it to crawl like a snail. Even at medium settings, which still produced decent-quality results, the Stylus Photo 700 is not a fast printer. It also features a novel sticker-printing application, which will appeal to kids and adults.