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Used for: More than a year
Tanks still above the line after all this time
The touch panel is small and slow to respond
Sits in the corner of a spare room running a home business: invoices, address labels, the occasional scan for the accountant. A year and a half of that and the tanks are all still showing colour above the minimum line, which no cartridge printer I have owned could have claimed.
Used for: Less than a month
On the wifi and printing inside half an hour
The bottles want storing upright somewhere sensible
Out of the box, filled, on the network and printing in under half an hour, and that includes arguing about where to put it. My teenager had printed to it from a phone before I had even opened the laptop!
Used for: Less than a month
Third Epson in this house and the first with tanks. Should have done it long ago, the difference in cost is daft!
Used for: 6–12 months
Takes a stack through the feeder without chewing it
The output tray fills up and pages slide off the end
Bought to keep a small letting agency ticking over and it does the lot: tenancy packs printed double sided, identity documents scanned to email, the odd colour floor plan. It sits on top of a filing cabinet and nobody in our office has had to think about it since. The feeder takes a stack of twenty and does not chew them, which is more than the last one managed!
Used for: More than a year
Costs next to nothing per page
One modest cassette, and it skews a sheet when the tray runs low
The running cost is exactly as advertised and that is the whole reason to own one. We print heavily in some weeks and not at all in others, and a year and a half in the black bottle has been topped up twice and the colours once between them. Where it disappoints is paper handling. The single cassette holds a modest stack and it will not take anything much heavier than thin card without complaining, so headed paper and labels have to go in one sheet at a time from the rear. It also picks the last few sheets of a low tray unevenly, which shows up as a skewed page every so often. None of that stops it being the right machine, but you notice.
Used for: More than a year
No warm-up, and scanning straight to a folder on the NAS
Chosen over a laser after working out what the toner was actually costing us, and the decision has aged well. Double sided is the default here now, because it costs nothing to leave it switched on, and the paper bill has halved. The scanner earns its place as much as the printer does. Receipts go to a folder on the NAS at the press of one button, and the text recognition is good enough that searching a supplier's name genuinely finds the invoice. Warm-up is the thing you notice coming from a laser: there is not one. Press print, the page appears, none of the thirty seconds of whirring first.
Used for: More than a year
Has never jammed on us
Cheapest thing in the office to run, and it has never once jammed!
Used for: Less than a month
Quiet enough to share a room with a phone call
Wifi took three attempts before it stuck
Getting it onto the wifi took three attempts, which is the only reason this is not five stars. The panel found the network, announced that it had joined, then dropped off twice before it settled, and I rebooted the router in the end just to be sure of it. Everything since has been easy. Text is properly black rather than the grey an inkjet sometimes gives you, duplex flips without hesitating, and printing from an iPad needed nothing installed at all. It is quiet enough to sit in the same room as a call.
Used for: More than a year
No maintenance beyond a top-up of black
Steady home-office use for two years and the only attention it has needed is topping up the black and pulling a stray staple out of the feeder. Nothing else has ever been asked of me. It just prints!
Used for: Less than a month
The first page arrives immediately
Solid blacks bruise slightly on cheap paper
We came from a laser and there are two things to get used to. The first is that the page arrives immediately, which after years of waiting for a fuser to wake up feels almost wrong. The second is that dense black on cheap paper can look very slightly bruised where the ink soaks in, and on a big block of solid colour you can see it if you go looking. For letters, invoices and the children's homework none of that matters a jot. Scanning is quick, the feeder handles a stack, and the whole machine cost less to fill than a set of toners did.