Connect Email Print lets you send a print job directly to a unique e-mail address assigned to every WorkForce printer. This means you can attach anything to an e-mail and send it to the printer's e-mail address, and the print job will be waiting for you in the output tray when you arrive home.
Anyone can use the e-mail address, and we can imagine it could come in handy for remote workers hoping to share information with the home office. The WorkForce isn't just a printer, either. The copy and scan functions will prove useful in offices where employees can take advantage of the A4 scanner bay's 1,x2, dots-per-inch DPI resolution, and the memory card reader lets anyone save and print documents with a recorded digital history that lives inside the printer's memory.
Epson also provides a page autodocument feeder ADF for hands-free scanning of document stacks. Our only complaint here is that the ADF doesn't resize to fit small 4x6-inch photo paper, so photographers looking for a sidekick in the digital darkroom may find their needs met better elsewhere. The Epson WorkForce is powered internally by four separate ink cartridges cyan, magenta, yellow, black that save you money by making it so you don't have to replace a tricolor ink tank.
We did the math based on Epson's high-capacity ink cartridges that offer more ink capacity at a discounted price, and a page of color ink works out to 7. Both costs are average for an inkjet printer at this price. Performance Since the WorkForce uses the same print engine as the WorkForce , we're not surprised that both yielded similarly impressive results.
The achieved The WorkForce also performed well in our color graphics and slide deck speed tests, printing 4. Unfortunately, the photo test tarnished its otherwise chart-topping scores, registering 0. The WorkForce 's closest competitor in terms of price and features, the A Plus produces text prints that can't compete with the WorkForce 's crisp text and vivid colors, even at smaller fonts where we would dare to compare its line work to a laser printer. Finally, quiet offices will certainly benefit from the 's whisper-quiet operation noises, which are easily drowned out by clicking keyboards and soft conversation.
Compared with irritatingly loud devices that make their scanning, spooling, and printing processes well-known, the WorkForce is satisfying in its stealthy operation.
Service and support Epson backs the Epson WorkForce with a limited one-year warranty that includes toll-free customer support weekdays from 6 a. Further support is available online through a model-specific troubleshooting guide, FAQs, e-mail support, driver updates, and document downloads.
Conclusion Though we wouldn't recommend it for hard-core photographers, the Epson WorkForce excels in all manner of printing operations, and has all the extras you need in terms of mobile printing software, as well as double-sided paper conversion and speedy performance.
We recommend the WorkForce for offices, home offices, and any other environment that requires a do-it-all output machine. Find out more about how we test printers. Justin Yu. Photo print speeds are slightly lower than for the average inkjet, and the packaging doesn't include the USB and Ethernet cables required for a tethered connection. Though it's slightly more expensive than competing inkjet workhorses, we recommend the Epson WorkForce for its refined design and Epson's Connect cloud-printing portfolio.
Speed test in pages per minute Longer bars indicate better performance. You can fold it out and adjust it to your desired angle by pressing a button on its back. At the center of the 7. Buttons that are inactive for a particular screen aren't illuminated, which helps minimize command confusion.
When connected via Wi-Fi, Epson offers a handful of free mobile printing apps for wirelessly printing directly from mobile devices. Epson's PrintJinni app enables you to print documents, Web pages, and e-mails. The setup for PrintJinni is a bit mysterious, but we did manage to print a Web page from an iPhone with the app. However, Gmail could not find the printer when we tried to print a message from a Gmail account set up through PrintJinni on the same iPhone. Epson's iPrint app worked flawlessly, though it prints only photos.
The software takes you to your phone's camera roll, where you can simply select a photo and the printer to send it to, and hit print. You can choose bordered or borderless prints, and from among four different paper types: 4x6 inches, 5x7 inches, letter, and A4. When you're not on your phone but in the office, you'll find the copy and scan functions useful.
The A4-sized scanner bay features 1,x 2, dot-per-inch DPI resolution, and you can send your scans to your PC, or to a memory card inserted in the printer, or attach it directly to an e-mail. You can also use the ADF to produce double-sided copies and scan double-sided prints.
The Epson WorkForce printer ships with four separate ink cartridges for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. To factor the most cost-efficient price per page, we base our cost per page on Epson's extrahigh-capacity ink cartridges. Both costs fall just below the mean for an all-in-one printer of this size. Performance The Epson WorkForce turned in a strong performance in our tests on the whole. It pumped out The WorkForce performed just as quickly when printing graphics, especially in our presentation speed test, in which it outpaced the competition by printing 10 color PowerPoint slides at a clip of 6.
Unfortunately, it struggled in our photo speed test, taking roughly 70 seconds to print a 4x6-inch photo on glossy photo paper for a time of 0. Competing models were two to three times faster at printing photos. The WorkForce proved a bit speedier than average on our scan and copy tests. It scanned a page color document at 5. We reviewed its output quality in side-by-side comparison with the HP Officejet Pro A Plus and found that the WorkForce produced slightly crisper text and brighter, more vivid color.
It almost looked like the Officejet Pro A Plus used too much ink in printing text, particularly with smaller fonts, resulting in slightly blurred edges.
Lastly, we appreciate the WorkForce 's low operating noise levels. Any small office can feel claustrophobic when you're trying to get work done next to a loud, overbearing printer, and the WorkForce barely made its presence known during spooling, scanning, and printing. Service and support Epson backs the Epson WorkForce with a limited one-year warranty that includes toll-free customer support weekdays from 6 a. Further support is available online with a model-specific troubleshooting guide, FAQs, e-mail support, driver updates, and document downloads.
Conclusions It's not the fastest photo printer, but for all other jobs the Epson WorkForce excels. We recommend this multifunction inkjet for its high-quality prints, rapid text and graphics speeds, easy-to-navigate control panel, and abundance of features that include autoduplexing, an ADF, wired and wireless networking, and support for mobile printing.
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