Bryan D Gebhart
3 de diciembre de 2025
Quality printing, great monochrome print speed and holds a lot of ink
As with any printer, there are ups and downs. There are definitely more ups than downs, but this is not the panacea for printers, yet it is the best we have had.Let's start with the basics, which is what are most important, print quality and speed. The print speed is fast for monochrome printing and I really appreciate that. The print speed is average for color and that's fine. We definitely print more monochrome than color, so for us, 90% of our prints will be faster. While it advertises no warm up time, there is some lag between pressing "print" and printing, maybe that is transmission time, but just be aware that it may not be instantaneous. With all this said, this printer is the best in class that I have owned for speed, especially once it starts. Quality is perfectly fine too. If you do a LOT of photo quality prints, you might upgrade one level higher and get the 400 dpi version. I have not found any way to get 400 dpi on this one. For us that is probably a once or twice a year small gripe, so again, for the vast majority of prints, this will be as high a resolution as you will need. It does not come out grainy or pixelated.I appreciate the epson app, and yes you should download it to set things up. It goes through detailed step by step so you never question what is happening or what you should do next. With that said, we got bogged down in the set up phase. Mid set up, there was a nasty paper jam that took 20 minutes to clear and it screwed up the installation process and it became far more convoluted than it had to. Overall set-up took us probably 45 minutes. This was a poor experience and since other reviews have mentioned paper jams, I think Epson ought to look into this. Outside of this though, their set-up process is at least well coordinated.Wireless connectivity has been great. The set-up took care of all of that initially. We have not had to fight with finding the printer, it being offline, or not ready to go. This has worked seamlessly for both our desktop and our mobile devices. Although we have had it only a few days, this is promising.Adding ink was a breeze and I love that you can see the ink fill levels and add color one by one instead of having to replace all colors because one color is running low. This holds a LOT of ink, and reasonably priced so it really should last quite a while. This is a huge upgrade from our old ink cartridges. 5 out of 5 stars hereThe durability is perhaps only a 4 out of 5. There are a lot of moving parts. Trays come out automatically although i have no idea if we are supposed to manually move them or not. Some of the internal areas to access sound like you are breaking them when you lift something. It sounds like plastic snapping although nothing technically broke. I think there could be some enhancement here. I don't think any trouble issues would actually cause the printer to stop functioning, but there is more for improvement here. Also, after the initial paper jam mentioned earlier, everything has been flawless as far as function goes, so I am actually quite happy as far as ongoing performance is concerned.Lastly, we bought this on sale for Thanksgiving Sales, and found this to be a reasonable price with a discount. It is a little expensive at MSRP, but there will be substantial savings in the long run on ink. So overall, I am happy with this. I would say there is a bit of a learning curve as you figure out how and when to feed paper initially, but this has been a substantial step up from the cartridge printers that I am used to. Hope this helps.Ver másVer menos
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