Epson Artisan 837

Epson Artisan 837

The Epson Artisan 837 color inkjet multifunction (print/copy/scan/fax) is a premium home unit that aims to give you practically every feature you could potentially want, plus spectacular photo quality. Although its $300 purchase price (since October 4, 2011) is dear, its ongoing ink costs are pretty sensible.

Epson Artisan 837 Review

Establishing the Artisan 837 wirelessly is wind, as it offers both WPS and a Wi-Fi wizard. A collection of brief and simple-to-understand dialog boxes guides you through the drivers and software configuration.

Overall the Epson software is qualified and easy to use. The HTML-based help files are informative and logically set out, but they’re available online just. USB and ethernet links also consist for anybody that desires a more secure and dependable connection.

The Artisan 837 is clad in midnight-blue housing that is a refined separation from the glossy black everybody appears to be preferring currently. On the front, you will find a 7.8-inch-wide, tiltable control board that integrates a 3.5-inch color touchscreen LCD flanked by backlit touch manages. It manages to light up contextually, showing up just when required.

Although this design is the future wave, we still find traditional switches and LCDs more simple. Sometimes we could not quickly inform whether we needed to push something on the LCD or the control board, and in a couple of circumstances, the tester could not determine how to get back from where we were. Also, the slightly hazy plastic covering the control board appears a bit inexpensive.

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Epson Artisan 837 – Paper-handling features for the Artisan 837 are excellent. It sets a bottom-mounted, 120-sheet paper tray with an automated duplexer. Inside the main paper, the tray is a dedicated, 20-sheet photo-paper tray that approves media up to 5 by 7 inches in dimension.

The Artisan 837 also handles optical media: Touch the CD Tray switch, and about 15 seconds later, a tray shows up where you can place your CD or DVD. Epson consists of a different application for designing the tags.

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Epson Artisan 837 – In tests, the Artisan 837 proved fast at printing pictures, and it did everything else pretty quickly as well. Scanning and copying rates were brisk. Text web pages published at above-average rates of 7.4 web pages each min on the PC and 7.3 ppm on the Mac.

A snapshot-size photo took 11 secs (5.4 ppm) published at default setups on ordinary paper, and 28 secs (2.1 ppm) produced at better arrangements on Epson’s photo paper. A near-letter-size, high-resolution color photo published on the Mac arose at a quick rate of 0.9 ppm.

The Artisan 837 uses a six-ink printing system. The enhancement of a light cyan and a light magenta is meant to produce better-quality photos-and that is the outcome we saw, with the Artisan 837’s smooth, accurate, and reasonably shaded pictures. Text output at default setups on ordinary paper had the soft, slightly grey appearance typical of Epson items. Still, its quality improved significantly when we changed the drivers to its delicate setting.

Despite six cartridges, the Artisan 835’s ink costs are reduced. The high-yield color cartridges cost $16 each and yield approximately 805 pages a hair, much less than 2 cents each color on each web page. The $17.09, 520-page high-yield black comes to 3.3 cents for each web page.

A four-color web page (the usual cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) costs a reduced 9.5 cents total. No standard-size black cartridge exists, but the various other standard-size shades each cost $10.44 and last 510 web pages, or 2 cents each color, each web page.

You obtain a great deal of inkjet multifunction for the cash with the Epson Artisan 837. It offers complete connection, excellent efficiency and print quality, and a lengthy list of features consisting of specific items such as CD/DVD printing. Tester appearance ahead to contrasting it versus various other premium units, such as Canon’s new Pixma MG8220.