By Jim Hill
The Expression Home printers form the affordable end of Epson’s extensive printer range, but the new XP-5105 crams in almost every feature the average home office could ask for.
Being a three-in-one, it can print, scan and copy, but it’s the other features that give it an advantage over the average budget inkjet. It can print both sides of a black and white page, for instance, and the large colour display makes it much easier to get this printer online and faster to alter paper settings and monitor ink levels etc. And all for a modest asking price of £90 (around US$119, AU$161).
It has a surprisingly deep 150-sheet paper tray, an SD card slot at the front and a high-resolution flatbed scanner on top. Anyone that has used the Epson iPrint app will know how easy it is to print and scan from cloud services like Dropbox and of course the paper tray can accept every size of photo paper up to A4. If there is a catch, it is the cost of the replacement ink, because a set of high yield cartridges can cost more than the printer itself.
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Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac