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11,555Most monochrome inkjet printers offer some brilliantly efficient cost per page, along with good quality and fast printing. Epson recently announced its K300 and this particular printer aims at further lowering your printing costs. But, does it manage to do so without compromising on quality and speed? Let’s find out.
The control panel
Design and Build Quality
The Epson K300 comes in a white and grey outfit and looks pretty inconspicuous. It’s got a lot of flaps and panels and is predominantly made of plastic, so you might have to be a little careful while handling it. The control panel is located at the front and can be swivelled up in case the printer is lower than your eye level. The document feeder is located towards the bottom, while the output tray is located right above it. The scanner and copier functions are located at the top.
Coming back to the control panel, all copy, scan and delete functions are located on the panel itself, but there’s no text supporting each button, so you might have to glance at the manual to get a hang of each button and its function. The Ethernet port and power slot are located towards the back. Overall, the printer doesn’t have a massive footprint and though the design isn’t pretty impressive, one would agree to the fact that you don’t buy a printer for its looks. Over to the features and performance.
The K300
Features
The Epson K300 is a monochrome Inkjet printer that utilizes Epson's new DURABrite Ultra Inks. It has a maximum print resolution of 1440 x 720 dpi. Print speeds clock unto 37 papers per minute for texts prints on A4 sheets. For copying speeds, the company states a 4 second first copy out speed, which we have put to further test in the performance section. Obviously, that time doesn't include the warm up time for the printer. Scanning has a maximum optical resolution of 1200 dpi with lower resolutions of 600 dpi and 300 dpi also available. Both Flatbed and Automatic document feeder scanning types are available.
In terms of speed, Epson mentions a monochrome 1200 dpi speed of approx 8.8msec/line and a cool 1200 dpi speed of approx. 25.4 msec/line. Connectivity options, include USB and Ethernet, so network printing is possible. Wireless printing would have been a welcome option, though. The printer has an input paper handling capacity of 150 sheets and an output paper handling capacity of 50 sheets. On paper, the K300 seems to be able to do it all, but it's the performance section that will tell us the real story.
Transformed
Performance
First up, we have gauged the speed and quality of the printer. The K300 has three modes of printing - fine, normal and fast economy. Our first test printout, one with text filling up the entire sheet, took a cool 7 seconds in fast economy mode, 8 seconds in normal and 35 seconds in fine print mode. An A4 sheet with different font sizes took 5 seconds to print in fast economy, whereas it took 6 seconds to print in normal and a full 26 seconds to print in fine mode.
| Printer Features | |
|---|---|
| Printing Type | Colour |
| Printing Technology | Inkjet |
| Available Functions | Print, Scan, Copy |
| Resolution Colour | 1440 x 720 |
| Resolution Black | 1440 x 720 |
| Print Speed Black (PPM-A4) | 37 |
| Print Speed Colour (PPM-A4) | No Information |
| Printing Quality | Photo |
| Standard Memory | No Information |
| Maximum Memory | |
| Copier Features | |
| Colour Copy Resolution | No Information |
| Colour Copy Speed (PPM-A4) | 4 sec |
| Reduction and Enlargement | 25 – 400 |
| Halftone | |
| Monochrome Copy Speed (PPM-A4) | No Information |
| Copier Type | |
| Copy Modes | Standard, Best, Draft |
| Scanner Features | |
| Monochrome Speed Seconds Per Page | |
| Scanning Method | |
| Scanner Type | Flatbed + ADF |
| Bit Depth | 48 |
| Colour Speed Seconds Per Page | 7.5 msec/line |
| Text Enhanced Technology | |
| Optical Character Recognition (OCR) | No Information |
| Film Scanning | No Information |
| File Format | No Information |
| Fax Features | |
| Transmission Speed Seconds Per Page | |
| Modem Speed | |
| Media Handling | |
| Plain Paper | Yes |
| Maximum Paper Size | A4 |
| Transparencies Printing | |
| Envelopes (Input) | |
| Input (Plain Paper) | 150 |
| Output Plain Paper | 50 |
| Duty Cycle | |
| Automatic Document Feeder | |
| Connectivity | |
| USB Port | Yes |
| PictBridge | |
| WiFi / Bluetooth Support | No |
| Printer Type | |
| Network Ready | Yes |
| Power Requirement | |
| Power Consumption (Operation ) | |
| Environment | |
| Noise Levels | |
| Dimensions | |
| Depth | No Information |
| Height | No Information |
| Weight | No Information |
| After Sales Service | |
| Warranty Period | |
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