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

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.

Thisl printer replaced an older one of the same model. This printer does it all and produces beautiful results.

I have owned this printer for 4 years. If you need to print less than 10 text-only pages per year, this may be an okay printer for you. Otherwise, avoid this printer (and all others like it) at all costs. If someone tells you they will pay you $1,000 if you buy this printer, do not accept it unless you plan to use it for target practice in which case that would be a great deal. Why do I despise this printer with such intensity? Why would I not recommend it, even to my worst enemy? Why do I waste time daydreaming about packing it full of Tannerite, pouring gasoline on it, setting it on fire, tossing it from the edge of the grand canyon and shooting it as it falls clumsily through the air? #1 - You will spend so much on ink that you may have to file for bankruptcy or at least apply for government assistance. Hundreds of dollars a year, easily. #2 - Want to print only black and white and have plenty of black in in the printer? No problem! Just make sure you buy all the color ink cartridges first. Seriously, while it is unreliable and inconsistent, 95% of the time it will not let you print BLACK AND WHITE ONLY unless the COLOR ink cartridges are plenty full. Hmmm... wonder why that is? #3 - Its wireless printing capabilities are completely unreliable. #4 - After a couple of years of use, the print is uneven, smearing here and there, random lines getting printed. In other words, quality is not great. #5 - It acts like it can be used to print quality photos. Maybe... just keep in mind the cost/picture is probably about $2 given the exorbitant price of ink and how much it uses. #6 - Multiple times when I have needed it most (like today), it has played trick #2 from above on me, putting me in a real bind.

I chose 4 stars because I just installed this printer this morning and haven't done enough printing to give a fair report on the print quality. installation was simple and quite fast. (one review I read stated that installation instructions were unclear and hard to accomplish, I did not find this to be true for me, perhaps if this is your first printer some things could be confusing) I absolutely love the Epson printers, from my first dot-matrix in 1990 to my recent 18 yr old R-380 I no longer do custom print jobs, but still do a fair amount of color flyers and signs, etc. this printer fits nicely on my desk in the same spot the R-380 sat - love that the paper loads and prints from the front, making it unnecessary to pull the printer out to load the paper.

It's a great printer, but i bought it because it said it had faxing capability....thinking that meant I could fax right from the printer.. It doesn't have that capability you have to fax from an online app with isn't always convenient

Love this printer!!! It’s so quiet and it prints in excellent quality. I purchased it to make stickers from my drawings! Highly recommend. Great price too!

A lot of negative reviews. Even then I think it’s due to unrealistic expectations. Here’s what I like: prints are of exceptional quality. I’ve always liked Epson for that. I’ve started to print Audio CD’s and Blue ray as well. Great prints! Only printer in this price range that can do that. And do it well. Don’t like: it’s terribly slow. The internal software needs patience. Print costs are high. Then again which ink jet printer isn’t? All in all well worth it and a bargain if on sale!

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.

I bought this printer based on the reviews that matched 400-500$ printers. I liked it for the first week it worked. It was easy to set up, one of the few left that print via USB cables, the first printer I owned that did borderless images, the ink cartridges were separate (allowing only the needed ones to be changed), and the images used to be crisp and beautiful.... for one week. A week later, I started up the printer again to print more pictures (I was printing portrait-sized images of flowers and birds on semi-gloss paper), and the image quality mysteriously dropped. Ink smudges, horizontal streaks, and the colour itself no longer matched the original pictures. I did everything in the troubleshooting, cleaned everything, tweaked every settings I could think of and was recommended. The same ink and paper was used throughout that week. Nothing. My last test after everything was "fixed" was printing an image I already printed to compare the difference... and the problem remained: the colour no longer matched, ink smudges, and streaks. So, it'll be used for text-only documents and for the scan feature. Disappointed that the good image quality did not last more than a week.