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Review on πŸ–¨οΈ Epson Workforce WF-100 Wireless Mobile Printer with Amazon Dash Replenishment Compatibility by Lagant Wardrick

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Great little printer but a bit expensive to use.

And I mean a small printer. I don't think you can make a smaller printer to print on 8.5 inch wide paper. I used it on a long RV trip to print out parking and route information. The prints were sharp and bright and the images were very good. The speed was reasonable. Overall it worked great for what I needed. I wouldn't recommend it for printing high quality images as the cost would be prohibitive, it would only be 3 color ink plus black, it would be slow and that's what this printer was just NOT made for. If you're looking for a fast printer that prints high-quality images for a low price, don't look for a portable printer. There were some oddities when trying to print select parts of the page. Direct WiFi proved unreliable. Worked the first time, but doesn't connect reliably after that. Didn't take the time to figure it out or get tech support, so maybe it was my fault. Using the cord worked well and I still needed to have it close by. The cost is a major drawback, but I don't think you'll solve this problem with any other portable printer. However, remember that all 3 colors are in the same cartridge. So when one of these is used up, they will all be replaced. Ink for the amount you get is expensive. In addition, there is a replaceable waste ink tank they call the ink maintenance tank that needs to be replaced almost as often as cartridges. Although I saw a review here today that suggests I may have replaced it too soon. The cost of this tank also seems high for a plastic waste ink tank. Now I'm seeing some half price third party ink tanks so I might look into that, but fiddling with third party ink tanks can be risky. For example, this printer successfully keeps excess ink in the ink maintenance box and ink cartridges even if the printer turns over and bounces around a residential building when not in use. If a third-party ink maintenance tank can't do this, eliminating the mess, if at all possible, doesn't justify the savings. I like Epson printers best and this one does the job it's designed for pretty well, but it annoys me to buy expensive ink and see so many of them thrown in an expensive plastic box. But if the solution to this problem was a printer that doesn't print reliably, I wouldn't like that either, and there are definitely a lot of hurdles to overcome when printing to a portable inkjet printer.

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