WorkForce WF-7830 All-in-One Wireless Colour Printer with Scanner, Copier, Fax, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and ADF

Très efficace

This is an excellent printer. Fast, capable of handling sizes up to and including a3. The automatic document feeder is wonderful and copes very well with double sided print. The printer inks are easy to change with a wide variety of replica and original inks available. The borderless print mode makes letters and other important documents look professional. The dual side printing mode eliminates the guesswork of enduring printing only odd on one side and then even on the other and worrying about correct orientation it simply prints on one side then takes the page back in and prints on the other side. The instructions were a little vague and might not be suitable for a first time printer owner or those who are technophobic. The paper trays can accommodate a large stack of paper meaning fewer changes needed and the output tray is simply superb as it automatically slides out to the right length for the paper used. I've used a lot of printers and this is my new favourite.

Really pleased with it so far. Prints quickly and nice quality. And the build quality feels nicely put together. setup was straight forward although it's not that quick if you never had a Epson printer before like me. The two separate trays for the paper is very handy, when you need to change between paper sizes frequently.

I bought this because I wanted to move to A3 printing and scanning after my HP A4 printer broke down. (As it happens, I haven't yet done either in A3, though I've realised that scanning the standard A4 on an A3 scanner creates some problems of correct alignment, maybe I need to tape a sheet of A3 on the scanner glass with an A4-sized hole cut in the right place.) Installation was a bit of a nightmare, the instructions are obscure especially if you just want to wire it in to one computer rather than have wireless connection and all that blah blah. Having charged more than a couple of hundred pounds, shouldn't the instructions be properly written? The paper cartridge on this A3 printer does not accept A3 paper unless the tray is left open to the elements (dust) so only infrequent use of A3 is liable to cause operability problems due to the dust layer which will have settled on that top sheet of paper, the alternative is to keep the tray shut (A4 only) and store the A3 paper somewhere else in the room (but where?) and be grateful for the reduced footprint of the printer. With my HP printer, I had (after some effort) managed to find a way to refill the cartridges by alternating between an A set and a B set so the machine believed I had swapped to a different cartridge as indeed I had though it was a refilled used one. WIth this Epson it seems harder to find a way to refill, but maybe I'm just further down the learning curve. I believe (not totally sure, TBC) you can buy refillable cartridges for this machine on Ebay but they are very expensive and if they do work they themselves have a fixed page limit I believe, again imposed by Epson software. The interactive screen is plasticky and small and not a patch on the high quality one on my A4 size HP, admittedly the HP was a professional one supplied by my then employer with less cost constraint. OVERALL, I'm left feeling that Epson's focus has been on cutting corners while stitching up the user on ink costs, all money driven for Epson's benefit, while not paying a lot of attention to the user experience. Maybe the user is expected to just be grateful that they can buy an A3 machine for this price which I don't think would have been possible 5-10 years ago. My title "lukewarm" sums it up. Would I buy it again? Possibly, if I were forced to because it turned out to be still the least bad option, but I wish I could revisit the decision knowing what I now know about this machine, because I'd be looking to see whether there was something else A3 that offered a better proportion of Pros to Cons.

works great