From
young love to budding romance to friendship or family relationships,
Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to show the people in your
life you care. And what’s a better way to say “I love you” than
leveraging
a robust printing solution to create hand-made, personalized gifts from
the heart? Allow me to introduce the
Epson Expression Premium XP-860 Small-in-One.
Leveraging
Epson’s MicroPiezo printing technology and Claria Premium inks, the
XP-820 delivers consumer-rated unbeatable photo quality for vivid,
borderless photos up to 8” x 10,” plus direct CD/DVD printing.
Create a custom-labeled music compilation for that special someone, or
even personalized valentines for the little one’s classmates. Plus, the
XP-860 comes equipped with the
Epson Connect™ suite of free mobile printing
solutions, and even enables users to edit, scan and share photos directly to Facebook™ or the cloud.
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My Thoughts
This is one cool
printer! Our first color printer was an
inkjet, purchased many years ago and inkjets have come really far in all those
years! Epson not only sent us the
printer, but a lot of media to go with it - Premium Glossy Photo Paper
in several sizes, and printable CD's. My favorite part: the photo
quality is just amazing! That is, once
you use the right settings, LOL!! The
first time I printed a photo using the Epson Expression Photo XP-860, I forgot
to set the printer settings and used the default settings – it wasn’t bad,
about as good as the original inkjet photo printers, but I was really
disappointed. Until I realized my
mistake, got it corrected, and then was WOWED with the final version. Most of the time I don't get my photos printed, because you never really know what you’re going to get. I’ve had some that looked fantastic on the
screen, but was then less than pleased at the print quality when picking them
up from the photo store, or the print quality of older inkjet printers - nice, but not *great*. I have lots of
photos I want to frame, so now I can!
My husband did all the setup work to install the
Expression Photo XP-860 in our home office. It really didn’t take too long and he had mostly good
things to say about the whole installation process – with the exception of that
it wants you to install some toolbar as part of the installation. But, you can opt out of that (we did). It
can be set up wireless which is awesome for
our small office – it’s across the room and we aren’t tripping over
cables! As an IT professional, he said the wireless setup wasn't as
straightforward as it could be, and the printer seemed to "forget" its
wireless setup, as it worked that night, but needed to be re-set up the
next day. He also said the management and configuration cability was
limited in comparison to installing other leading brand printers.
Now, you can get labels to print for CD/DVD’s, but this
printer actually allows you to print ON the CD/DVD!! How cool is that?? No more messing around with getting the
sticky label on just right. You can
choose your text, font, everything! My husband is having lots of fun with this
option, in fact just ordered a new spindle just for that purpose! I think we may have created a monster there . . .
One option that I think is THE coolest – is the ability
to print right from your smartphone, iphone, ipad, tablet, or computer. I mean, printing wireless from my pc is one
thing, but to be able to print from my phone?
AWESOME!! Granted, I don’t have a
smartphone yet, but my old phone’s pretty near death and a smartphone will be
my next upgrade. And I take LOTS of
pictures with my phone! Another great feature, I can even print directly from
my camera’s memory card! I just
got a
new digital camera and I am so pleased with the quality of pictures it
takes,
so I am super excited to get outdoor photos of my son this summer – and
now
that I can print great quality photos myself, it just makes it that much
easier to share
photos with the grandparents, who are always asking for photos! The
printer also features a touchscreen, where you can preview your photos
and even do a little photo editing.
This printer has other options, too, which make it an
excellent choice for a home office. Not
only can I print, but I can scan, copy, and fax! The scanned in pictures are of excellent
quality, too! For all that it does, it's a nice SMALL compact design, not a big gigantic unit. I feel like I have the
best of both worlds now – last fall we purchased a new color laser printer to
replace our “still works but is too old to work with new software” black and
white laser printer. While laser
printing is preferable to me for some things, photos are not one of them. And while
that color laser printer is pretty cool, it doesn’t have anywhere near the
amazing features the Expression Photo XP-860 does.
Highly recommended – perfect for the home office!
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