4.0 out of 5 stars
Color me over 90% in love...
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 11 July 2021
I am rapidly falling in love with this printer. It says it is a photo printer, and I have been having to remind myself, printers are tools not toys, because the photos coming out of this printer, even on regular everyday paper, are fantastic.
That being said...
This printer comes with more blue "safety while traveling" tape than any one device should be able to contain. I think I found it all... but given I can't get the wide-format, rear-feeder for paper to run paper through without a paper jam, I have a nagging feeling I still missed one, and my inability, thus far, to print on Tabloid paper is my one disappointment so far.
Setting it up was easy, I used the prompts on the printer because I didn't have a tablet handy when I was installing it, then went back and installed the apps on my iPad mini. (Note, your tablet has to be on the exact same wifi system as the printer to print easily -- so if you have two routers in the house, they have to be on the same one.)
I have printed half a dozen 8.5 x 11 pages with borderless images, and at least 30 4x6 pictures on glossy paper, again borderless, and my ink level is down at 3/4... a lot goes into the priming process. As a result, I decided to order replacement ink early on, rather than risk running out. (I found it a challenge to find replacements for all 6 {yes 6} inks that go in, until I found the exact product numbers from Epson. Just searching Epson 552, the ink type, was only getting me 4 of them. T522120-S is the black. T552920-S has the other 5 inks, 3 colors, one variation of black, and grey.)
Pages come out of this printer feeling like they have a lot of ink on them, and I have found after several days some of the 8.5 x 11 borderless printed images have started curling at the edges, I think that is because of the large amount of ink put on the paper... that being said... these are frameable pics, even on regular paper.
The borderless printing is AMAZING. I showed some of the 4x6s to someone, and they were blown away this was home printing, and for a moment started to ask where I'd gotten these printed for me. (I was using a glossy paper I picked up here on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08XNCS5CS)
My computer has been having some lag issues, so I haven't used the epson software there yet, just installed the drivers (I found the Canadian site easier to use than the one listed for US users, not sure why.)
Now that I've got the drivers installed, I can right click any picture, choose the print option, select the Epson printer, set the paper size to 4x6, select glossy paper... and check the box for fit image to frame, and it prints borderless. (When putting the paper into the printer, I also go through the prompts on the touchscreen to tell it what kind of paper I've loaded. Telling it in both places has resulted in EXCELLENT print quality thus far.)
At this point, I just need my rear paper feeder to stop jamming/crumpling paper, and this may well be the best printer I've gotten in a LONG time.
I tried to make a short video showing some of the pictures I was able to print off of this Epson, the pictures have been taken over the past 10-15 years, so some of them are off older digital cameras, some of them were taken with 10x zoom... I tried for a variety of shots, wanting to see the colors this printer put out, as well as the detail -- I love being able to see the storm on the horizon in some shots for instance.
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