Waiting to burn up the ink in the Workforce 500 this printer will replace. Permanenetly clogged heads. Service was more than replacement. 2 1/2 years old.
We've a large number of printers, but none with the quality and capability of this one. Like no others before it, we are able to leave it running 24/7 and print to it in it's remote upstairs location with our iPhones and MacBook Pros from anywhere in the house using Apple's Airport Extreme router. My wife is really giving the scanner a workout with excellent results. Only feature not used is Fax as we have no land phones, but I see this as a lost art in this wireless world.
I purchased this printer 4 days ago and it installed easily (I did not install it to work wireless). Prints are great, fast and silent. Scanning photos is easy. But.... scanning documents to pdf has been impossible. Every time I try to scan a document a program called ABBYY tries to start but immediately gives an error message and I can not see the scan. I have searched everywhere for a solution but nothing yet. I have tried changing the setting. Hopefully Epson will help. I hope I can resolve this quickly.
I've only used the printer today, and what I don't like about it are the following: 1, it's very noisy, sounds the paper has a really hard time making it's way from the feeder to the output tray. Which brings me to 2, the tray that pulls out is kind of short and flimsy and I found my copies on the floor several times. And 3, the paper feed tray only has one side guide near the front of the tray, leaving the back end of the paper to slop around a bit (8 1/2 x 11). Printing seems okay for now, but I haven't tried any heavy stock, resume paper or photos yet. On a positive note, it was very easy to set up and load the ink cartridges, same for getting the fax and scanner software set up. But, I haven't tried those just yet.
The machine prints nicely, but it is too prone to paper jams. I stack the paper perfectly, and it prints nicely for a while, and then I get a paper jam for no reason, and have to shut it down to clear the jam.
I'm new to Epson...but so far...so good! It's a little more challenging setting up the WorkForce 545 for MAC because I'm a new MAC user too...and you have to go on-line to set it up. I also set it up to use on my Verizon Wireless. I kept getting the message "printer is not connected"...but I called and the tech got me going in about 2 minutes. The printing is excellent! Haven't had time to try photos or copy machine so I better get busy!
Excellent print quality. Easy setup. Control panel is user friendly. ADF tray and printed page output trays seem flimsy but time and use will determine their durability.