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Epson WorkForce <strong>Pro</strong><br />
WF-8010DW<br />
A big inkjet with low running<br />
costs that may tempt heavy<br />
users – but it falls well short<br />
of claimed print speeds<br />
SCORE ✪✪✪✪✪<br />
PRICE £291 exc VAT<br />
from pcpro.link/<strong>274</strong>eps<br />
Epson’s WorkForce <strong>Pro</strong> WF-<br />
8010DW could be just the thing<br />
for demanding workgroups.<br />
This A3+ inkjet has an enormous<br />
65,000-page maximum monthly duty<br />
cycle, impressively low running costs<br />
and a brisk claimed top speed of<br />
34ppm for A4 mono and colour prints.<br />
It’s also ideal for businesses that<br />
want plenty of paper choices. The<br />
single 250-sheet A3+ base cassette can<br />
be supplemented with up to three<br />
additional 500-sheet trays, while the<br />
large tray at the rear can handle 80<br />
sheets at sizes up to A3+ and weights<br />
up to 256gsm.<br />
Internally, the WF-8010DW uses<br />
the same PrecisionCore print head<br />
technology as Epson’s commercial<br />
printers, with high-capacity<br />
DuraBrite <strong>Pro</strong> ink tanks that deliver<br />
laser-matching print costs. Go for the<br />
high-yield XL cartridges and you’ll<br />
pay a penny for a mono A4 page and<br />
4.3p for a colour one.<br />
It must be said that our out-of-box<br />
experience left something to be<br />
desired: the review unit arrived with<br />
no setup disc, so we had to download<br />
drivers and software for Windows<br />
from Epson’s support site. The drivers<br />
gave us no problem, but Epson’s Easy<br />
Photo Print utility wouldn’t work<br />
until we had installed the separate<br />
Easy Print module.<br />
With this done, we were able to get<br />
on with our test prints – and these<br />
came out looking very good indeed.<br />
Text was superbly sharp in Standard<br />
quality mode: better, in fact, than on<br />
the High setting, which left a slight<br />
dusting around smaller fonts. Black<br />
and white photo prints clearly<br />
benefited from High quality<br />
mode, however, with<br />
good levels of<br />
detail and no<br />
banding, which<br />
was occasionally<br />
evident in<br />
Standard mode.<br />
Colour prints<br />
look great in High<br />
quality too: the<br />
WF-8010DW<br />
turned out bold,<br />
punchy reports<br />
and sharp, glossy<br />
photos, with no<br />
banding or edge<br />
bleeding. The<br />
rich colour of the<br />
DuraBrite <strong>Pro</strong> ink<br />
made our test A3<br />
posters pleasingly<br />
vibrant and eye-catching.<br />
They were remarkably quick to<br />
print, too: at High quality settings, our<br />
A3 posters took just 16 seconds to<br />
print onto 100gsm paper. Even when<br />
we switched to premium glossy photo<br />
paper, an A3 colour poster came out in<br />
129 seconds, while an A4 photo took<br />
75 seconds.<br />
Alas, for general office printing,<br />
performance is less impressive. We<br />
couldn’t get close to Epson’s claimed<br />
34ppm: even on the driver’s Economy<br />
setting, our 34-page Word document<br />
came out at a noisy 22ppm. In Best<br />
mode this dropped to 12.5ppm, while<br />
duplex printing in Standard mode<br />
averaged 16ppm.<br />
As with the Brother, you can’t use<br />
wired and wireless connections at the<br />
same time, but a good range of<br />
network services is supported. We<br />
were able to print directly from our<br />
ABOVE The 250-sheet<br />
base cassette can be<br />
supplemented with up<br />
to three 500-sheet<br />
trays<br />
“Colour prints look great:<br />
the WF-8010DW turned out<br />
bold, punchy reports and<br />
sharp, glossy photos, with<br />
no banding or bleeding”<br />
iPad via AirPrint and WiFi Direct, and<br />
Epson’s iPrint iOS app let us print files<br />
from Box, Dropbox, Google Drive,<br />
Evernote and OneDrive accounts.<br />
The Epson Connect cloud service<br />
also lets remote users email print jobs<br />
as attachments to the printer. When<br />
we registered, a unique email address<br />
was generated for the printer, and we<br />
were given the option of creating<br />
approved sender lists and decide<br />
which features they could access.<br />
Larger organisations will be happy<br />
to know that the WF-8010DW works<br />
with the Epson Device<br />
Admin tool, so you can<br />
manage all of your Epson<br />
printers from one<br />
interface. You can<br />
monitor ink levels,<br />
generate usage reports<br />
and create templates to<br />
keep settings consistent across<br />
multiple printers.<br />
The WorkForce <strong>Pro</strong> WF-8010DW’s<br />
huge duty cycle means it can keep up<br />
with a print-hungry workgroup. Print<br />
speeds are unexceptional, but colour<br />
quality is very good for the price – and<br />
it’s cheap to run as well.<br />
LEFT Epson’s web<br />
interface and Device<br />
Admin utility keep you<br />
posted on the status of<br />
consumables<br />
SPECIFICATIONS<br />
4,800 x 1,200dpi A3+ colour inkjet printer<br />
● 512MB RAM ● 34ppm A4 mono/colour ●<br />
Gigabit Ethernet ● 802.11n wireless ● WiFi<br />
Direct ● AirPrint ● USB 2 ● duplex ● 250-sheet<br />
A3+ paper tray ● 80-sheet A3+ rear MPT<br />
● max monthly duty cycle, 65,000 pages ●<br />
567 x 570 x 378 mm (WDH) ● 26kg ● 1yr onsite<br />
warranty<br />
96
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