Epson WorkForce Pro WF-4740

Epson WorkForce Pro WF-4740

The Epson WorkForce Pro WF-4740 ($299.99) is a more durable variation of the Editors’ Choice WF-4720, a business-centric inkjet all-in-one (AIO) printer. You obtain two times the paper input capacity for the distinction in price (about $100), a giant automated document feeder (ADF) that supports two-sided scanning, and a larger color touch screen. Such as it’s less expensive, brother or sister prints well and quickly, and comes with a wide variety of connection options.

Epson WorkForce Pro WF-4740 Review

The WF-4740 ($299.99 at Dell) is more expensive than our present Editors’ Choice, the Canon Maxify MB2720 Cordless Home Workplace All-in-One Printer ($232.10 at Amazon.com). Still, it is much faster, prints a bit better, and comes with several additional valuable features; production is our new front runner for low-to-moderate publish quantity in a small workgroup or mini workplace.

Lean and Imply

At 13 by 16.7 by 19.8 inches (HWD) and 26 extra pounds, the WF-4740 is significantly taller and much longer from front to back than the WF-4720 and evaluates about six extra pounds more significant than the WF-4720.

It should still be in shape comfortably on most large desktop computers. It is also enclosed dimension and weight to the Canon MB2720 and its more expensive brother or sister, the MB5420. Still, a lot smaller sized and lighter than the HP OfficeJet Pro 7740 ($179.99 at HP), an equally valued and ranked AIO that prints, checks, and faxes tabloid-size (11 by 17 inches) web pages.

The WF-4720’s paper capacity is 500 sheets, split between 2 cassettes, like the other devices mentioned here, other than the WF-4720, which comes with simply one 250-sheet cabinet. Additionally, the WF-4740’s maximum monthly duty cycle is 30,000 web pages (with a suggested monthly quantity of 1,500 pages), which gets on the same level as most of its competitors.

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You set up the WF-4740, publish from or check to the shadow, or a USB thumb owns (the port lies on the left-front side of the framework, beneath a safety cover), and perform various other walkup jobs, such as production duplicates and sending out faxes, from a 4.3-inch color touch screen. Apart from the Power switch, that screen makes up the whole control board.

All Link Options Protected

Connection features include Wi-Fi, Ethernet, connecting to a solitary PC via USB, Wi-Fi Direct, and NFC (near-field interaction). Those last 2 are peer-to-peer links that permit you to access the printer without either it or your mobile phone belonging to a network. Neither the Canon MB2720 neither the MB5420 support either Wi-Fi Direct or NFC, and the HP 7740 supports just Wi-Fi Direct. The smaller-sized WorkForce AIO, the WF-4720, supports both.

Various other mobile connectivity features include Android publishing, Apple AirPrint, Epson E-mail Publish, Innovative Publish Application, Epson iPrint, Epson Remote Publish, Terminate OS publishing, Google Shadow Publish, Mopria, and Check to Shadow.

Powered to Perform

The WF-4740 is powered by Epson’s PrecisionCore 4S printhead, where 4S means that the printhead releases 4 PrecisionCore ink nozzle chips. A reasonably new printhead technology, PrecisionCore—depending on the variety of chips on the printhead—is much faster than traditional inkjet printheads. In this situation, significantly much faster. Epson prices the WF-4740 at 24 web pages each min (ppm) for monochrome web pages and 22ppm for color web pages.

When publishing our 12-page black-text Microsoft Word text document, it churned at the rate of 27.3ppm (and a first-page-out time of 9 seconds), significantly much faster compared to Epson’s score. It’s also significantly much quicker compared to the WF-4720’s 20ppm, as well as the Canon MB2720’s 20.6ppm, the MB5420’s 20ppm, and the HP 7740’s 23.6ppm.

As most printers do, when we combined the ball game from publishing the over text document with the outcomes from printing our more complex PDFs, Stand out, and PowerPoint files containing color, video, and pictures, the WF-4720’s score plunged to 15.1ppm. That is 1ppm much faster than its more minor-sized brother or sister, but also significantly much faster (by at the very least 5ppm) compared to the various other models discussed here.

The WF-4740 published our test pictures at approximately 12 secs each. Here, the WF-4720 surpassed it by 4 secs, but the various other AIOs discussed in this area were greater than 20 secs slower.