EpsonExpression Home XP-5200 Wireless Color All-in-One Printer with Scan, Copy, Automatic 2-Sided Printing, Borderless Photos, 150-Sheet Paper Tray and 2.4" Color Display,Black

Love, love this printer

First of all I am a repeat customer of Epson printers, my last one was 12 years old, XP-430, time for a new one. This came highly recommended and was priced good enough for my budget.Pros:Easy to set up. It took 10 minutes from unboxing to printing.All functions work great and its easy to save to computer, or iCloud, etc.Powers up quickly.Bottom front load paper tray (LOVE THIS).Compact design.Bluetooth connection, easy to set up and connect to wifi.Cons:Extremely loud while printing. I placed it in 3 solid places, exactly the same level of noise each time.Ink runs out way to fast and is expensive to replace even for generic brands (hard to find)Black ink is base and I hardly printed anything and was notified ink was out!I trusted the reviews but never saw one that commented on noise or ink levels. It is still a great product but do your homework before purchasing if you require heavy printing or a quiet device.RE-REVIEW after a month:Started out great, untl I changed the ink, which is ridiculous. The ink tanks are expensive and run out after MINIMAL pages or printing.After installing the new cartridges, the quality was awful. I followed the prompts to clean the heads, reprint, power clean, useless.DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRINTER!!!!!

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I am normally an inexpensive Canon inkjet printer user, but became disenchanted with my latest Canon MG6200 that uses a combined (r,y,c) color ink cartridge since individual colors are used at different rates, and when one color is low, the Canon will often leave any location with that color blank … even if I select “black” only … that I had thought would result in a mixture of white, black and various greys (in place of the individual colors). Nope. So done with that Canon. I needed a small footprint printer that utilized individual inks for each color. I found that Epsom Expression XP-5200 met all my needs, as well as a slighly more expensive Epson, and a similar Brother (I purchased a Bother a few yrs ago, and returned it immediately after being unable to get crisp printed output). My only concern with the Epson was with the various discussions re the ability to use less expensive “remanufactured” ink cartridges, since Epson apparently identifies nonEpson cartridges and disallows their use with future SW upgrades. There are various methods (apparently) to get around this problem, and remanufactured “guarantee” their cartridges will work! Since I am not a “frequent” printer, I decided to purchase the Epson Expression XP-5200, as well as a set of highly rated remanufactured, as well as standard Epson ink cartridges. Have not yet installed either, so no determination yet of the use of remanufactured cartridges. However, the Epson xp-5200 arrived promptly. The setup instructions can be misleading, and allowing the automatic setup using the Epson app failed continuously because the Epson would not retain a wi-fi connection with my router. I then followed the “manual” installation, and after performing the wi-fi setup … apparently that was enough, the two partial setup attempts worked, the Epson console sprang to life and all seemed well … a bit disconcerting because I never reached ppd a “finish” step as usually required, the Epson initialization was quite quick, the console was very bright, and after a few moments touching all the buttons … how to use it “manually” was clear and obvious. I downloaded the Epson printer app onto my IPad, 2 laptops, and desktop PC. Eason Support indicates the SW printer and SW that should be downloaded, very quickly done. …these are used when the non manual mode (e.g. from Word, Excel, Internet sites, etc) are used and you select “print” . The “AirPrint” from IPad, and computer printing all went flawlessly to my surprise, the printer head alignment was quick, and pages were crisp … and the Epson CO-5200 prints fast (compared to the Canon). There are 5 possible apps to choose, but only the manual, actual SW app, and Connectivity app are likely required (the other 2 apps are for printing photos). The SW installation was much quicker than for the Canon … and the number of apps many fewer than for the Canon(I actually found the Canon app suite confusing). Whether the Epson SW provides all the capabilities of the Canon is yet to be determined, But, it has all the basic needs (orientation, pages, margins, two-sided … etc)that I (and likely 95% of all users will need). One quirk noted that the Eoson sometimes loses the Wi-Fi connection (shown in printer console with a red warning). Just touching that icon seems to clear up the connection problem immediately (time will tell if this is a real problem with “my” Epson, or a general problem (read other reviews!). In summary, nice footprint, clear manual console, bright icon displays on the console, User manual is extensive, AirPrint, Wi-Fi print works well … very happy with my purchase!

We like how easy this printer is to use. Good color with sharp printing, like a photograph.

So I connected the printer wirelessly to my computer. Easy enough. I printed 15 pages and the black ink ran out. I was sure that this was just some kind of mistake. Like I just got a bad cartridge. So I call Epson customer service and told them what happened. Well guess what, the man told me that was done on purpose. I was like, what? That doesn't make any sense. He said that there was only enough ink in cartridge to print out more or less 15 pages because that cartridges' only function was just to test whether or not the printer was working properly. So I was like, WHAT? I said, So I bought this new printer and right away I have to spend more money on a cartridge? He was like, Yeah. Then I was like, F.U.!And something else as long as I have your attention. I bought another black cartridge off Amazon. It was an off brand for the Epson I have. It lasted long enough. I was more or less satisfied with it. But when it ran empty the printer was saying that ALL ink cartridges were going to need to be replaced. It was indicating that all the cartridges were empty. And I did not print any color other than black. So they were trying to screw me over with the other three cartridges. DON'T BUY THIS PRINTER.

Lovin' it! I had 2 Epson Stylus NX230's I bought several years ago at Costco for $19.99 ea. I let them go fallow after I got a color laser and only used them for scanning. My LaserJet went caput, I needed them and blew off the dust, put in new carts and cleaned them up, they worked enough for the project, but they never flew again. I had another project and bought the WP5200. Good choice.

Fantastic printer, but don't fall for the "firmware update" gambit.When you "update," the printer disables the use of all non-Epson brand ink cartridges. I had been using Epson compatible off brand cartridges just fine until I got tired of seeing the "firmware update" prompts and followed them to get rid of the prompts. The printer then suddenly refused to recognize the off brand ink cartridges and would no longer work without (very expensive) Epson brand ink. A quick Google search revealed that this "firmware update" is just a ruse to block people from using much cheaper, but just as effective off brand ink. I purchased this second printer (same model as before) and the off brand ink cartridges work just fine in it as long as I don't "update" the firmware.