Epson XP-820

Epson XP-820

The Epson Expression Premium XP-820 Small-in-One Printer is a small inkjet multifunction printer (MFP) with reputable speed, excellent picture and video quality, and a wide variety of features for both homes home-office use.

Epson XP-820 Review

The Epson Expression Premium XP-820 Small-in-One is a small inkjet multifunction printer (MFP) with reputable speed and excellent video and picture quality. It has a wide variety of features for home and home-office use. However, its moderate paper capacity limits it to light-duty business use.

Design and Features

Epson XP-820 prints, duplicates, checks, and faxes and can do so as a standalone device. It can publish into inkjet-printable DVDs or CDs and publish from or checked to a USB blink own or sd card. It can also check to a computer system or a network folder.

Epson XP-820 measures 5.4 by 15.4 by 13.4 inches (HWD) and evaluates 21.5 extra pounds. It has a 100-sheet main tray and a 20-sheet photo-paper tray that can stand up to 5-by-7-inch paper, plus a one-sheet feeder for technical writing. It has an auto-duplexer for two-sided publishing. The moderate capacity of the main tray suffices for a home printer. However, it is what we’d consider ideal for a unit to offer double-duty in a home and office.

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On top are a 30-page duplexing automated document feeder (ADF) and a letter-size flatbed. The front panel houses a 4.3-inch touch-screen LCD. Sideways of the trays are the memory-card port (SD, MS Duo, and CF cards are supported) and a port for a USB thumb own.

Connection

Epson XP-820 offers both USB and Ethernet ports. The wireless connection consists of Wi-Fi and Cordless Direct, which supports a straight peer-to-peer link with a suitable device without the need for a network. The printer works with Google Shadow Publish and allows users to check straight to Twitter and Google.

It supports Epson Connect solutions, such as the ability to access, publish and check documents, pictures, e-mails, and webpages from a tablet computer, mobile phone, or computer system from anywhere on the planet.

It’s AirPrint suitable and is also Mopria-certified. What AirPrint provided for publishing from iOS devices, the Mopria Alliance—a charitable consortium that Epson belongs to—hopes to provide for Android. The XP-820 will work perfectly with the Mopria Publish Solution application and the integrated publishing structure in Android v4.4 or later, enabling Android users to easily publish documents, e-mails, pictures, or web pages.

Publish Speed

Epson XP-820 published our business applications collection (as timed with QualityLogic’s software and hardware) at 5.1 effective web pages each min (ppm), a reputable speed for its price. In contrast, we timed the Canon Pixma MG7120 BK Cordless Inkjet Picture All-In-One Printer ($299.99 at Amazon.com) at 2.5ppm, while the Editors’ Choice Sibling MFC-J4610W ($998.00 at Amazon.com) ran through our tests at 5.6ppm, and the Editors’ Choice Epson WorkForce 3640 ($214.99 at Amazon.com) evaluated at 5.4ppm. The XP-820 published out 4-by-6-inch pictures at approximately simply 38 secs, an excellent speed.

Output Quality

The output quality, based upon our testing, was a variety, with substandard text and slightly above-par video and pictures. Text quality appropriates for almost any home use other than documents, such as resumes, with which you want to earn a tremendous aesthetic impression. Most interior business uses, other than official records and documents that use minimal font styles.

Video quality suffices for any home or interior business use, consisting of PowerPoint handouts. Shades are bright and well-filled. Most pictures show dithering through graininess and populate patterns. Some slim, colored lines versus dark histories are shed. Tester also saw mild banding, a recurring pattern of pass-out striations, in several pictures with solid records.

Pictures also are slightly over the same level for an inkjet. A monochrome image revealed some tinting, and a pair of prints showed some loss of information in sunny locations. With most photos, the quality is typical of what you had anticipated from pharmacy prints; however, it was somewhat better in a pair tester looked at.

Ink and Operating Costs

There are five ink cartridges, consisting of a picture black. The operating costs of 4.6 cents for each monochrome web page and 16.3 cents for each color web page, based upon Epson’s numbers for the prices and yields of its most cost-effective ink cartridges, are more significant than most inkjet MFPs of comparable worth.

The just ones with comparable operating costs that we’ve looked at recently are various other photo-centric (yet still general-purpose) models such as the Canon Pixma MG7120, which was available at a similar 4.6 cents on each monochrome web page and a somewhat lower 13.4 cents each color web page.

On the other hand, the more business-oriented Sibling MFC-J4610DW has declared operating costs of simply 2.3 cents for each monochrome web page and 8 cents for each color web page. In contrast, the Epson 3640, another business-centered MFP, has costs of 3.2 cents for each monochrome web page and 11.4 cents for each color web page.

Thus, it is not a lot of the extra ink tanks of some of the more photo-centric models—the XP-820 includes one storage container, while the MG7120 adds two—that owns up the cost, but the reasonably high price each yield of the individual tanks. And you pay the premium whether you are publishing pictures for a cd, coupons, webpages, or e-mails.

Although it is not ensured, in most situations, you’ll access the very least instead better-quality pictures from customer MFPs designed to picture quality compared to models tailored more towards business. The XP-820’s picture quality was slightly over the same level in our testing, but the Canon MG7120’s was better.

Whether improved picture quality deserves the higher per-page cost over, say, the Epson 3640—with its average picture quality and boating of features consisting of a 500-sheet paper capacity—depends on your needs.

The Canon Pixma MG7120 also had better picture quality than the XP-820 in our testing and slightly lower color costs. Still, it took twice as long to publish our business applications collection and does not have features such as fax, Ethernet, and an ADF.

The Editors’ Choice Sibling MFC-J4610DW revealed slightly substandard picture quality, but its per-page costs are much less than fifty percent of those of the XP-820; it has a lot greater paper capacity can publish at up to tabloid (11-by-17-inch) dimension.

The Epson Expression Premium XP-820 Small-in-One Printer offers excellent pictures and video (however, at the expense of text quality) and a great set of features for home or office. That may well deserve its relatively high operating costs, mainly if your publishing needs are relatively light.