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By Alexandra SavvidesFeb 10, 2009

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Design

It's a rarity to come across a printer that has such strong design aesthetics as the TX700W. Coming from the same design house that gave us Pinocchio washing lines and mouse-shaped objets d'art, the Castiglione Morelli-designed printer is definitely a little different from the rest of the pack. Sporting a piano black finish on the upper half and a matte-black plastic base, the TX700W also houses a control panel at the front, which pops out from the body and tilts up and down. Backlit buttons and the vivid 2.5-inch color LCD screen are equally as sexy as their surrounds. An array of memory card slots sit at the bottom right, completing the rest of the specs. Its rather cumbersome size is the one disadvantage to all the clean lines--the TX700W seems to spread out rather than up, making its footprint a rather large 44cm across by 38cm deep.
Tags: Printer, Epson, LCD, LCD screen, control panel