Epson XP-410

Epson XP-410

The Epson Expression Home XP-410 Small-in-One will be enough for light home/trainee use. The publishing quality is remarkably excellent, but paradoxically, the pricey inks imply you should not buy this machine unless you publish a lot.

Epson XP-410 Review

The color inkjet printer market is operating on a positive outlook nowadays. Dell, Kodak, and Lexmark have all quit the business in the previous year. Customers are posting online more, publishing less—and shedding their persistence with expensive ink cartridges.

The $99 Epson Expression Home XP-410 Small-in-One doesn’t refix any one of these issues—and its inks are, in truth, quite pricey—but it does offer remarkably excellent output quality together with basic multifunction features.

Also, while it may appear counterproductive, if you do not publish a lot, the cost of the ink issues is much less. (Be honest on your own about this, or you will regret it later on.) So for those that are publishing much less, the XP-410 could be an excellent standby machine.

Small, simple, slightly lightweight

What you obtain for the price is a small, designed machine with a flatbed letter/A4 scanner on top and a 100-sheet back upright feed. Paper departures right into a front output location. These items use relatively lightweight, rattly plastics, as is typical for articles at this price point. The scanner cover doesn’t telescope to accommodate thicker material, so scanning a book would undoubtedly be uncomfortable.

The tiltable control board is better compared to what you will see on most inexpensive printers. There is a 2.5-inch color display, and touch manages are also context-sensitive (they light up when needed). Compared to the impulse all of us have currently to touch the show rather than a switch, the control board works great and is both user-friendly and receptive.

Connection is also great for the price. USB and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n are available for connecting straight to a PC or a cordless network. Front ports take SD or MS Duo media cards. Mobile publishing is protected with Apple AirPrint, and Google Shadow Publish compatibility, plus applications for e-mailing or publishing straight from mobile devices.

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One annoyance is the exile of the introductory user guide and the Mac OS X driver to Epson’s Internet website. The installation CD has lots of room; why not simply put them there? It is a puzzler but familiar with Epson’s lower-cost devices.

Outstanding output quality

Epson’s carefully pink color combination works to the benefit of most pictures. Pictures revealed great overall color precision and reasonable shapes and darkness. Fleshtones, however pinkish, were still reputable. Also, images published on our ordinary paper were lovely: slightly grainy, but with good illumination and precision. A shade copy on regular paper was gorgeous.

The XP-410 also creates remarkably great text in all manner of font styles. The sides appearance is classically inkjet-soft but not fuzzy. Your outcomes will differ, of course, depending on the quality of the paper you use. We use Hammermill LaserPrint as our “ordinary” paper and the vendor’s stock for pictures.

Publish speed is good. Documents including ordinary, black text, and small monochrome video published at an accumulation of 6.6 web pages each min (ppm) on the PC and 6.4 on the Mac. Color pictures took significantly longer—especially the full-page picture we publish on the Mac, which took 3 mins to post at best setups.

On the PC, a smaller sized 3-by-5-inch picture took 16 secs at default setups on ordinary paper and 70 secs at the Picture setting on Epson’s outstanding stock. Check times were amongst the slowest we’ve seen in a couple of years (as they were for this product’s precursor, so this is a function, not a bug), but the checks themselves were outstanding.