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We have collected 2 reviews of the Epson B-510DN. Experts rate Epson B-510DN 8/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Epson B-510DN and Epson Multi-functional printers.
The Epson B-510DN could become the first crossover color inkjet printer success, outperforming the other members of its cohort--along with many lower-end color lasers--in print speed and cost per page. All this talent comes at a high initial price ($599 as of June 28, 2010). But if you need speed, volume, and economy, plus good photo printing, the B-510DN is well worth considering. The B-510DN's design is efficient rather than aesthetically pleasing. Replacing consumables is a snap, thanks to the front ink-cartridge bay, but the bay protrudes awkwardly from the unit's face. The control panel consists of a two-line monochrome LCD and a few buttons whose purposes are clear even without word labels. The front input tray holds 500 letter-size/legal-size sheets and has a 170-sheet output tray on top. A rear input accepts envelopes and the like (or another 150 sheets of paper). It can connect via USB or ethernet. Automatic duplexing is included as a standard feature. Pages virtually flew out of the B-510DN. On the PC, the printer generated plain-text pages at an average speed of 14.7 pages per minute, and 4-by-6-inch color photos on letter-size media at 3.4 ppm. On the Mac, it delivered plain-text pages at 13.82 ppm, and a four-page PDF of mixed text and graphics arrived at a rate of 2 ppm.
If you have any doubts about how blurred the line between inkjets and lasers is getting, take a look at the Epson B-510DN ($599 direct). In most ways, this inkjet has more in common with lasers than inkjets. It provides laser-class speed, waterproof output on plain paper, and a level of paper handling that you won't find in many inkjets. Indeed, its real competition isn't other inkjets; it's similarly priced lasers, like the Editors' Choice Xerox Phaser 6280DN ($649, ). As intriguing as a laser-class inkjet may sound, that's not the most interesting aspect of the B-510DN. What really grabs my attention is its extraordinarily low cost per page. Epson doesn't like to claim a cost per page, but it's easy to calculate. The cost for a black and white page is simply the cost of the black cartridge divided by its yield. For a color page, do the same calculation for each color (including black), and add the numbers together. If there's more than one cartridge capacity, I use the most economical, on the grounds that if you care about cost per page, you should be buying the large, economy size.
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