Epson Workforce Wf 7110 Wireless Inkjet Printer Review

Ane of just a few single-function inkjet printers that'southward affordable, business-oriented, and can handle standard paper sizes up to thirteen by 19 inches, the Epson WorkForce WF-7110 ($199.99) can be a great fit for a micro, pocket-sized, or home function. The adjacent generation replacement for the Epson WorkForce WF-7010 ($199.99 at Epson) —which is discontinued only still available from some websites at this writing—the WF-7110 ($199.99 at Epson) improves on the features that fabricated its predecessor such a strong contender. More than than that, it delivers more than enough capability to replace the Epson WF-7010 every bit our new Editors' Choice micro-part tabloid-size printer.

The WF-7110 is an impressive inkjetby any reasonable standards. Compared with its most direct competition, like the Canon Pixma iX6820 Wireless Inkjet Printer ($199.99 at Epson) , information technology delivers far better paper handling and speed.

For paper handling, the WF-7110 offers two newspaper trays rather than 1, plus a duplexer (for two-sided press), and a transmission feed slot. The 2 trays make it easy to use for all your press by letting you keep alphabetic character-size paper in one tray, a larger size—up to 13 by xix—in the other, and press from either tray every bit needed. Each tray holds 250 sheets, for a full 500-canvass capacity. The manual feed slot gives you the additional flexibility of being able to print a brusque document on a 3rd size or type of paper without having to swap out the paper in either tray.

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In addition, y'all can load a unmarried sheet of paper as large as 13 by 44 inches in either paper drawer, co-ordinate to Epson, something I couldn't test considering I didn't have whatsoever paper that size on manus. Notation, however, that the paper will be too big for the drawer or output tray, so most of the sheet volition hang out from the front of the printer.

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Amidst the features in the WF-7110 that aren't in the Epson WF-7010 are support for Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, and mobile printing. Connect the printer to a network past Ethernet or Wi-Fi, and you can print from iOS, Android, Windows Telephone, and Kindle Fire devices through a Wi-Fi admission indicate on your network, as well as print through the cloud if the network is connected to the Internet. If y'all connect the printer to a single PC via a USB cable, you lose the ability to print through the cloud, merely yous can nonetheless impress from a mobile device by using Wi-Fi Direct to connect directly to the printer from the device.

Setup and Speed
The hardest role of setting upwardly the WF-7110 is finding room for it. The printer weighs a hefty 32.viii pounds and measures 12 past 22.3 by 16.7 inches (HWD) with the trays closed. With the output tray fully open, the depth grows to 31.viii inches. Bold you have room for it, however, setup is standard. For my tests, I connected it to a network using its Ethernet port and installed the drivers on a Windows Vista organization.

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The print speed isn't unusually fast, simply it's faster than the competition by enough to count as a plus. On our business applications suite, I timed the WF-7110 (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing) at five.5 pages per infinitesimal (ppm). That'southward a noticeable improvement over the Epson WF-7010 (4ppm) and significantly faster than the Catechism iX6820 (2.7ppm). Photo speed is much slower relative to the competition, averaging i minute 38 seconds for a 4 by 6 compared with 1:thirteen for the Epson WF-7010 and 59 seconds for the Canon iX6820.

Output Quality
Output quality for the WF-7110 was uneven in my tests, with excellent text and photo quality for an inkjet, but slightly subpar graphics with the default settings. Text quality is at the top of the range that includes the vast majority of inkjets, making it expert enough for almost any concern use. As with any inkjet, however, it's a little curt of what y'all would want for, say, a resumé that needs to expect fully professional person.

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Graphics quality is easily good enough for any internal business organization need, with virtually pages in my tests suitable for PowerPoint handouts or the similar. On some pages, however, I saw minor banding in large blocks of dark colors, like blackness and night green. The proficient news is that you tin eliminate the banding past setting the printer commuter for college quality, although that will requite y'all slower print speeds.

For photos, Epson recommends using a matte presentation newspaper. The output quality with the matte paper is better than yous would expect from most drugstore prints. Withal, if yous expect photos to take a glossy stop, y'all might non like the matte look.

The Epson WorkForce WF-7110's combination of output quality, speed, and, most importantly, paper handling makes a compelling case for the printer. Near of its direct contest, including the Canon iX6820, offers only one newspaper tray, which but isn't enough if you need a single printer for all your print needs. TheEpson WF-7010 essentially matches the WF-7110 for newspaper treatment, but information technology isn't equally fast, and information technology doesn't offer Wi-Fi or mobile printing. For the moment, at least, the WF-7110 is far out in front, and information technology'southward a shoo-in for our Editors' Choice.