Epson Expression Photo XP-850 Small-in-One Printer and Ink Cartridges

Monday, May 25, 2015

Epson Expression Photo XP-850 Small-in-One Printer and Ink Cartridges

Epson Expression Photo XP-850 Small-in-One long list of MFP features includes a few you may never have thought of. In addition to printing and faxing from, as well as scanning to a PC, including over a network, it can work as a standalone copier and fax machine. It can also both scan to and print from a memory card or USB memory key and can print directly from PictBridge cameras. In addition, you can not only print on optical discs from your computer, you can print on them directly from a memory card or USB key, and you can use a Copy command to scan an image and print it on a disc. Beyond that, the Epson Expression Photo XP-850 Small-in-One offers support for a variety of mobile printing options, including printing through the cloud, if the printer is on a network, and using Apple AirPrint or Epson iPrint to print from smartphones and other mobile devices by way of a Wi-Fi access point on your network. Even better, because the printer also supports Wi-Fi Direct, you can connect to it by Wi-Fi and print from a mobile device using iPrint, even if the printer isn't on a network. In principle it should also work with AirPrint with Wi-Fi Direct, although Epson doesn't claim that it does. Paper handling suffers from a meager 100-sheet input capacity, which limits the XP-850 to light duty use even by personal printer standards. However, there's also a manual feed slot, a photo tray that holds up to 20 sheets of photo paper as large as 5 by 7 inches, and an automatic duplexer (for two-sided printing). And because the ADF also duplexes, you can copy both single- and double-sided originals to your choice of single- or double-sided copies. In addition, the ADF will let you fax and scan duplex documents easily. It can also handle legal-size pages, which won't fit on the letter-size flatbed.