Epson Artisan 810 Wireless Touchscreen Color Inkjet All-in-One Printer (C11CA52201)

When I saw the opportunity to review this Epson 810 All-in-One through the Amazon Vine program, I jumped at it. I've used All-in-ones for almost ten years, sampling a variety of printers from HP, Canon, Brother, etc. I find this printer excels in a number of areas and fails in only one.

Here's my take on it:

PROS:

1. Print quality is as good as Epson claims. Whether these prints will actually last four times longer than drugstore prints is still up for grabs -- who has years to check out this claim? Nevertheless, the text and photos are very nice indeed.

2. Although I may never use it again, the coloring book feature is fun. For families with small children, I'm sure this feature will be appreciated.

3. Being able to charge up my mp3 player from the port on the front of the printer is a nice little extra. Anytime I can avoid powering up the computer for such a small task, I'm happy. And now I have a quick way to...Read more

I only have the printer for a few days, but so far I am very pleased.
I was a bit nervous before buying because I had read a lot of complaints about an earlier model, Artisan 800, having a lot of paper jams. But the paper handling on my 810 has been flawless, if a tiny bit noisy while it pulls in the paper. The actual printing is quiet, and of great quality. The paper tray feels a bit flimsy, but is easy to remove or insert, and there's no fuss to loading your paper in it. It can expand to hold legal size paper, and has a separate area for smaller sized papers, usually for photo printing paper. The package comes with 3 sheets of Epson high quality 4x6 glossy photo paper, so I printed three photos as a test and I could not be more pleased with the photo print quality. I have been using an HP Wireless printer up until now (model 5850) and the print quality of the Artisan 810 far outstrips that HP, with much deeper blacks and dark tones, and more rich looking color, which is...Read more

I was looking for a quality unit to replace my old seperate laser printer and old laser fax machine. They were both just B&W, and seriously worn out, could only use one page at a time! As well, I just inheriteted a bunch of old photographs that I need to scan soon, which in turn creates the need to create custom CD's and DVD's. I finally settled on the Epson Artisan 810.

I noticed that some units are marketed as "All-In-One" but don't have fax, so buyer beware! Those have only scan, copy, and print. A true all-in-one should also include fax IMHO.

In general, I was looking for the following in a well rounded unit:
-High quality photo scanning
-Printing onto CD's directly (without a label) 4x6 and 8 1/2 x 11 photo paper
-Easy multi-page faxing
-Easily attached to a wireless network so our 6 computers can share
-Quick B&W letter printing
-Seperate ink tanks to reduce wasted cartridges
-Automatic 'duplex printing' to...Read more