Expression Premium XP-6100 Wireless Color Photo Printer with Scanner and Copier, Black, Medium

Found this very easy to set up. I set up as wireless in about 15 minutes. Printer is working well and I like that it doesn't take up a lot of space. I had purchased this to replace an Epson that was about 15 years old and purchased it on sale so am well pleased with the price. I have yet to print photos but expect it to print well.

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.

I have been very disappointed with this printer. The printer heads stopped working after less than 3 years. Ruining maintenance on them only made it worse. I was unable to print at all. When I called Eason they said there was nothing that could be done and it was not covered under warranty. I had just bought new ink which was wasted when the printer broke. Also the feed trays and paper try’s are very awkward. The photo try is hard to get aligned. You have to close the feeder tray to put paper in and then pull it out to print. The front cover is useless because you have to have it open and have the paper tray pulled out to print. Also if you have 5 G WIFI it is not compatible. It is compact but the overall design is poor and the quality of the product is poor. The ink is expensive and a pain to install. The print quality of photos is decent but there are enough other disadvantages that I would make a different choice.

I have to say that, at least so far, I'm pretty pleased with this new printer. I'm probably not the best judge because I made my last printer last for a LOOOOOONG time - like, at least 15 years. Seriously. So, there's a lot about this new printer that is probably blasé to most people, but it's a lot of fun for me. First off, the size really is great. My last printer was a wide-format printer that could print up to 11x17, and this one obviously can't do that, but I became like most people - almost all the printing I do now is Letter or 4x6. And this little guy does a great job. It's also much faster than my old printer, and I'm stunned how easy setting it up is and getting it to work with Apple products. The print quality is good, to my eye, though I did have one occasion where there was some streaking and I had to do a print head test and cleaning. It seemed early on in my ownership of this printer to have needed that, but it's behaved well since. Now, I have NOT owned it long enough to evaluate ink capacity, but for what little work I've given it, it seems to be doing pretty well.

Very professional printer. Does a variety of things but no instructions to show you how to take advantage of them. I got basic setup instructions for me to use it and it does a really nice job printing what I need.

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.

Let me start off by saying I am 71 years old. I’m not computer illiterate, but I like things easy to install. This printer has. Touch screen that makes installation a breeze. It found my WiFi very quickly and I was able to have it recognized by my windows computer, my Mac laptop and my iPhone without any issues. It was great value for the money and seems to print well from all devices.

I needed a small, compact, cost effective photo quality printer for small home projects and printing out photos. After ample research, I settled on Epson because of good peer reviews and my friend has a similar model that works well. The box arrived quickly and undamaged. It includes basic ink cartridges for test prints and a few extra prints from there so be sure to purchase extra ink! I mainly use this as my occasional color printer (I have a B&W laser printer for regular printing) and my photograph printer. Pros: Easy instructions to follow for setting up Easy instructions for wireless setup Excellent quality photographs Fairly quick printing Has multiple cassettes for different types/sizes of paper Cons: The main cassette no longer feeds paper. The rollers that draw the paper don't work. I have no idea what's going on with it. This was after maybe 1 week post-installation and I printed maybe 10 photographs from that cassette. Now I have to use the 2nd cassette. Wifi connection is a bit spotty, even though everything that's connected with my router is fine. But all I do is restart the printer and restart my modem/router and it'll connect. Color prints come out a little less bright and intensely colored than what you see on your computer screen. Make sure you adjust your settings on your computer or whatever device from which you're printing to reflect true color, not enhanced color. Overall: easy to set up (especially for a tech dummy like myself), great quality photos. Just really bummed that the hardware for cassette 1 (the main paper feed) is kaput. Had to dock 2 stars for that. Hopefully it's just a fluke.