Epson Expression Premium XP-7100 Wireless Color Photo Printer with ADF, Scanner and Copier, Black, Small

Amazon CustomerUnited States

🙂 Great printer with an even better price.

I just happened to stumble across the Epson XP-7100 while looking for a small photo printer capable of using Letter size paper. The store did not have print samples and I knew nothing about it so I put off the purchase to do some more research. I came across a PC Magazine article titled The Best Photo Printers for 2019. The XP-7100 was listed a one of seven listed as an Editors' Choice, but the 7100 was the only Legal size printer with 2 others not fitting the bill and the remaining 4 being large formats costing 2-10 times as much. With a price of $129, I decided to take a chance. The XP-7100 arrived well packaged and heavier than expected (usually a good sign). It is a elegant contemporary design which takes up very little space and looks good anywhere. No ADF or trays sticking out. Setup was easy and straight forward with the quick setup sheet. The 4.3 inch control screen is a delight with its intuitive interface and bright touch screen. Once the ink cartridges are installed, just push the power button (the only button) and the control panels automatically tilts outward for a better viewing angle. After printing a few test sheets for printer head alignment, it was time to set up WiFi (unless you go with USB). WiFi setup was easy. Just select your network and enter its password (if secured). Last step is to install the software and driver on the computer. The CD did not auto run as it was supposed to so I manually opened the CD in File Explorer. At the root level are two app files. EPWizard.exe and Setup.exe. I ran the EPWizard.exe and everything installed fine. WiFi tried to locate the printer and it failed. This was resolved with a simple Restart of the computer. My first few prints were to test different papers and quality setting. The printer has 2 trays supporting cards, photos, envelops and basically anything A4 or Letter size and smaller. It even includes a CD tray to print on CDs. A motorized output tray retracts back into the printer (along with the control panel) when you power off. As far as construction, the port for the power cable is a little wobbly. I do not know what that is about. Some reviewers wrote the printer is flimsy. The trays do not have rollers or bearing, so yes they are a little flimsy to reduce friction, but tighten into place once fully extended. This is common among printers and helps keep cost down. As for the body, it does have thin panels (available in different colors) which are simply not acceptable for a laptop. Oh wait, this is a non-portable printer meant to, at most, be moved from place to place a few times. Remove from box and place on desk. I purchased the printer mainly for its photographic printing abilities. My first real print was a Student of the Month article (about my daughter) from the website of the local newspaper. The photo and text would be a great test of the printers capabilities so I imported the article at 300 dpi with vector text. I printed it with high quality settings and used Epson Ultra-Premium Glossy Photo Paper. The results were phenomenal. The color photo was vibrant and the blending of the 4 photo colors was seamless. Text (some of it 5pt in size) was very crisp and could rival laser printers. The printer is fast for an inkjet on high settings. I estimate around 35 seconds for the 8.5 x 11 print. I’ll add a follow up on the scanner, ADF, and media ports but for now the 7100 is a very impressive photo printer which can be had as low as $99. Of course they will make up for the losses, and then some, with ink and paper sales.

ConstantReaderUnited States

Everything worked well but some setup info hard to find

First of all, I had to go to a bricks-and-mortar store to find out where the paper tray was. I wanted to put the printer into a utility closet with an outlet and print without moving it, and until I could see the paper tray, I couldn't purchase it. Just showing the front of the printer without the open paper tray was not enough. I set up this printer with my MacBook Pro running OS 10.14.6. The power button is all black -- it lights up nicely when it. is on but is a bit difficult to find when it's off, although the setup sheet does show the location. I had trouble getting AirPrint to work. The setup sheet gives you enough information to get what I think is called Direct Print to work over your wireless network, but that's not enough for AirPrint -- you have to set up Wifi Infrastructure Mode, and the Epson online help is no help. Using Google, I eventually found an Epson YouTube video that showed how to do this from the printer's front control panel. Before I downloaded and used the 7100 User Guide, I also set up Epson Connect and the iPrint app, and after they did not help with AirPrint, I wondered if I would ever use them at all (but I did use iPrint, see below!). These different wireless print options and a one-sentence description of what each is good for should be on the Setup Sheet. Color print from MS Word, Excel, and Notes on iPhone and iPad worked perfectly the first time (once I had AirPrint). Then I started checking functions from the User's Guide, including several I've never done with any other printer. Duplex color copy and scan worked perfectly the first time, even though my input was an old and slightly wrinkled drawing. I did both from the Automatic Feeder Tray with the printer control panel. Photo print from Preview came out really well, even though I had only Another Brand photo paper instead of the Epson Ultra Premium Glossy paper I prefer. Photo print from a camera memory card, using the front printer control panel, also came out very well (my photo wasn't so great, so I won't say it was excellent yet) and I was able to preview what was on the memory card and select a layout right from that panel, without my computer. I didn't try transferring those photos from the printer to the computer because I put the memory card away before I saw that was possible, but I did confirm the Mac could see the printer over the network. I checked the printer supply levels from the printers and scanners icon in System Preferences. Finally I printed a layout of four 4x6 photos from my iPhone using iPrint. Worked fine. I am amazed at what this printer can do.

AustinCanada

Excellent printer

Got a great deal on this printer. The setup process was so easy, light years ahead of the HP, Lexmark and Brother printers I've had over the past few years. Print quality is excellent, and it's fast. My HP printer over-inked the pages at high quality and made the page warp, this has no problem at high quality settings, even small text looks great. Has an ADF and auto duplexing which is rare at this price point. A bit confusing with the remote printing options and setup. Overlapping functionality that wasn't very clearly explained, and it installed 2 versions of the printer intiially, a Network version and the regular one, that both functioned exactly the same from what I could tell. So I just deleted the extra Network one and I can print remotely and directly just fine to the other one. Overall an amazing purchase and I'm now sold on Epson printers going forward.

Lupe SolizUnited States

Definite Recommend

Had this for about a month now and ZERO regrets.Takes a bit to learn all the different trays and settings but, it was well worth the money. I've printed on over 100 CD and the quality is amazing, and I still have a lot of ink left. Printed many sheets as well. I printed shipping labels. The multiple trays on here lets you do just about anything you need. Had a few bad prints, but it was because I had to calibrate the printer. Love this printer!