Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4590 Review: Low-Cost Corporate Laser Alternative - reedthowite1944

At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

• Three-year warranty
• Fast
• Duplex printing and scanning

Our Finding of fact

The WP-4590 inkjet MFP is a competent, and well cheaper, alternative to color laser multifunctions for corporate workgroups.

The Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4590 color inkjet multifunction works quick and uses cheap ink, but IT isn't available through normal retail channels. Information technology's aimed at volumed businesses that value service and a low total price of ownership over a low buy out terms. Priced at $500 (as of Grand 13, 2012), the WP-4590 comes with a three-year warranty and is sold only through VARs and other embodied channels. Consumers who are tired of PIB (Printers in Disastrous) might besides appreciate this unit's friendlier putty and light-Gray coloring.

Accompanying the WP-4590 are the wonted competent Epson software and number one wood installation routine. Since the political machine has USB and ethernet, only no Wi-Fi (a bow to security concerns, per Epson), you will be tethered. The control panel sports a 2.5-inch LCD and the usual lay out of buttons, organized in a standard and logical manner. If you've ever used an MFP before, you will happen no learning curve here. The software includes Epson Glance over for scanning and PaperPort 9 for OCR chores.

Composition-handling features on the WP-4590 are quite good. It has a 250-sheet tray on the bottom and an 80-sheet rear vertical feed. If that's not enough, you can grease one's palms an aide 250-sheet bottom tray for a mere $100. For a optical maser printer you'd pay at to the lowest degree doubly as much for such an ancillary. Having the rear feed is especially nice for photos, since it permits the MFP to sue heavier glossy newspaper with marginal bending. The rear feed also allows you to keep two types of paper loaded.

The WP-4590 has a 30-sheet involuntary document feeder for scanning and copying thirster documents, and IT scans in duplex apartment (via a refeed, not with dual-scanning elements). The lid for the letter/A4-size flat image scanner telescopes about half an inch to reconcile thicker materials. The WP-4590 also supports automatic duplex printing.

The WorkForce Pro WP-4590 is the fastest inkjet we've tested of late, narrowly edging out its consumer-orientating Hands Pro WP-4540 cousin. Monochrome pages print at 12.6 pages per arcminute on the PC and 12.1 ppm on the Mac. Snap-size (4-by-6-inch) photos print at 6.2 ppm to plain paper and 1.7 ppm to glossy photo paper. Stuffed page photos print at 0.7 ppm, and copies proceed into the output bin at 6.4 ppm.

The corporate-oriented WP-4590 may be pricier than small-business inkjet multifunctions, simply its ink costs are outstandingly low. The unit ships with starter cartridges: a 1000-page black, and 900-page cyan, magenta, and yellow. The 676XL retail replacements are $38.49 for the 2400-page black and $24.49 for the 1200-page teal, magenta, and yellowish cartridges. That works outgoing to 1.6 cents per page for black, and 6.1 cents per page tot for color. A four-color Sri Frederick Handley Page would cost a bargain 7.7 cents. The extra-high-capacitance 711XXL cartridges listed on Epson's website are slated to be available only done moneymaking channels preferably than retail. Supported the suggested pricing that Epson provided to us, black volition cost 1.6 cents per Sri Frederick Handley Page and apiece discolour will cost 1.7 cents per Sri Frederick Handley Page, for an even lower four-color cost of 6.8 cents per page.

In our tests, output from the WP-4590 was typical Epson—that is to say, quite an good. Text appeared sharp and black, and very close (though not rather equal to) laser end product when we exploited its highest-quality setting. Color graphics were good, looking a tad washed out on plain paper, but coolly accurate when we switched to glossy photo paper. Of course, Eastern Samoa an inkjet, the WP-4590 is capable of handling thicker photo document.

Epson rates the WP-4590 for 1650 pages per month. That's the recommended number, not the industry's absurd duty-cycle rating, which people generally snub these days. Still, 1650 pages is a fair amount of printing.

The Epson Me Pro WP-4590 is a nice, two-a-penny alternative to a low-end tinge optical maser MFP for smaller corporate workgroups. It's fastened enough for most scenarios, supply costs are outstandingly low, and its long warranty is wagerer than what you'll get from a comparably priced optical maser.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/460776/epson_workforce_pro_wp_4590_review_low_cost_corporate_laser_alternative.html

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