Epson waa astaan ​​caan ah marka ay timaado daabacadaha, iyo gaar ahaan kuwa shaqeynta badan, sida EcoTank L5190 . Printer-kani waxa kale oo uu u shaqayn karaa sidii sawir-qaade, koobiye, iyo mishiin fakis ah. Mid ka mid ah sifooyinkeeda muhiimka ah waa nidaamka daabacaadda kartuunada-free EcoTank . Epson waxa ay ka hirgalisay qaar badan oo ka mid ah madbacayaashooda, waxa ayna ku lug leedahay isticmaalka haamaha khad dib loo buuxin karo oo lagu buuxin karo dhalooyin khad jaban, halkii ay ka isticmaali lahaayeen kartooj qaali ah. Haddii aad rabto inaad ogaato waxa aad ka hesho Epson EcoTank L5190 , iyo haddii ay kugu habboon tahay, akhri faallooyinkan:

Epson EcoTank L5190 : yaa u fiican?

Epson EcoTank L5190 - ku-hal-hal daabacaha ayaa ku habboon:

• Isticmaalayaasha guriga oo wax badan daabaca, oo raba inay ku badbaadiyaan kharashka khadka
• Isticmaalayaasha u baahan iskaanka aasaasiga ah oo ay weheliyaan daabacadahooda, ama mishiinka faakiska
• Ganacsiyada yaryar ee aan u baahnayn daabacaad sawireed oo tayo sare leh
• Isticmaalayaasha u baahan daabacaha WiFi oo sidoo kale lagu xidhi karo aaladaha mobilada

Faa'iidada iyo khasaaraha

Epson EcoTank L5190 waxay leedahay awoodaha soo socda:

• Dhalooyin khad ah oo jaban oo kaa caawin doona inaad kaydiso ilaa 90% dib-u-buuxinta, marka la barbar dhigo madbacadaha ku salaysan kartootada dhaqameed
• Dib-u-buuxinta taangiyada khadku waa mid toos ah, iyada oo ay yar tahay marka loo eego daadinta iyo qaska
• Goobta tayada daabacaadda Qabyada ah waxay isticmaashaa khad aad u yar^(Draft)
• Daabacaad tayo fiican leh marka la isticmaalayo jaangooyooyinka tayada caadiga ah^(Standard) ama ka sareeya
• Waxaad u isticmaali kartaa inaad ka daabacato labadaba PC-gaaga, casrigaaga iyo tablet-kaaga (iOS iyo Android )
• Daabacaadda aan xuduudda lahayn^(Borderless) ee sawirada, warqad sawir leh
• Shaashadda LCD^(LCD) ee waxtarka leh ee la falgalka daabacaha

Waxa kale oo jira arrimo hoos u dhac ah oo la tixgeliyo:

• Dejinta tayada qabyada^(Draft) ah waa doorasho liidata ee dukumentiyada leh qoraal iyo sawirro midab leh
• Dhalashada midabka ee daabacaadda sawirada waxay u qalantaa waxoogaa horumar ah
• Way adag tahay in la rakibo oo la dejiyo
• Software -ka Epson wuxuu u baahan yahay horumar si uu ula mid noqdo tartanka
• Ma jiro fiilada USB ee sanduuqa

Xukun

Epson EcoTank L5190 waa daabace kaa caawinaya inaad lacag kaydsato mustaqbalka fog: waxaad horay u bixinaysaa qiimo sare, laakiin khadku wuxuu sii jiraa waqti dheer, kharashyada dib u buuxintuna waa yar yihiin. Haddii aad isticmaasho jaangooyooyinka^(Standard) tayada caadiga ah, waxaad heleysaa daabacado tayo wanaagsan oo ku saabsan wax kasta. Sawirka sawirka iyo koobiyeeyaha ayaa labaduba faa'iido u leh dadka isticmaala guriga iyo kuwa yar yarba. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, waxaa sidoo kale jira waxyaabo hoos u dhac ku ah alaabtan. Kahor intaadan go'aansan inaad iibsato iyo in kale, akhri qaybaha kale ee dib u eegistan, oo baro naftaada meelaha ay ku wanaagsan tahay iyo meelaha ay ku liidato Epson EcoTank L5190^{(Epson EcoTank L5190)} .

Tilmaamaha qalabka iyo naqshadeynta

Epson EcoTank L5190 waxa ay leedahay daabacaad bilaash ah, waxayna ku siinaysaa haan khad weyn oo aad khad ka buuxinayso dhalooyinka lagu daray: madow, cyan, jaalle, iyo magenta. Khadka ku jira waxa loo malaynayaa in uu socdo ilaa 8100 bog oo madow ah iyo 6500 oo midab ah, marka aad ku daabacdo goobaha tayada Qabyo . ^(Draft)Mid kale oo kor u kac ah ayaa ah in khadku dib loo buuxin karo iyadoo la iibsanayo 103 dhalo oo EcoTank ah oo la awoodi karo , taasoo hoos u dhigaysa wadarta qiimaha lahaanshaha marka la barbar dhigo daabacayaasha dhaqameed.

Xallinta daabacaadda ugu badan waa 5760 x 1440 dpi (dhibcaha halkii inch). Xawaaraha daabacaadda ee aad ka hesho Epson EcoTank L5190 waa ilaa 10 bog/daqiiqo marka aad daabacayso madow iyo 5 bog/daqiiqo marka midab daabacan yahay. Saxanka warqadda wax lagu shubo waxa uu qaadan karaa ilaa 100 xaashi ama 20 xaashi sawireed, halka saxaaradda warqadda wax-soo-saarka ahi ay qaadi karto ilaa 30 warqadood. Epson EcoTank L5190 waxa kale oo ay leedahay quudiye dukumeenti oo toos ah kaas oo qaadan kara ilaa 30 bog. Tani waa ku filan inta badan isticmaaleyaasha guryaha iyo xafiisyada ganacsiga yaryar.

Daabacahan oo dhan-in-hal ah waxa kale oo loo isticmaali karaa sawir-qaade, koobiyeeyaha, ama mishiinka faakiska ah. Waxaad isticmaali kartaa si aad u sawirto dukumentiyada, iyo sawirada leh xalin la dejin karo meel kasta laga bilaabo 75 DPI ilaa 1200 DPI . Sawiradaada waxaa loo kaydin karaa sidii faylal leh mid ka mid ah kordhinta soo socota: PDF , BMP , JPEG , iyo TIFF .

Epson EcoTank L5190 waa daabacaha wireless wuxuuna la shaqeyn karaa 802.11 b/g/n heerka WiFi. Nasiib wanaag, waxay sidoo kale haysataa taageerada WPS^{(WPS support)} , ee xidhiidhada degdega ah ee shabakadaada guriga.

Marka la eego taageerada nidaamka hawlgalka, waxay la shaqeysaa Windows (laga bilaabo Windows XP ilaa Windows 10 ), Mac OS X 10.6.8 ama ka cusub, Android iyo iOS (iyada oo loo marayo Epson Connect app mobile). Printerku waa 14.7" x 13.6" x 9.33" ama 375 x 347 x 237 mm ballac x qoto dheer x dhererka

Haddii aad rabto inaad aragto dhammaan tilmaamaha rasmiga ah, oo ay ku jiraan noocyada waraaqaha ay ku daabacan karto, tag boggan: Epson EcoTank L5190 .

Ku rakibida iyo dejinta daabacaha Epson EcoTank L5190

Kadib markaad furto daabacaha oo aad ka saarto dhammaan hababka ilaalinta, waxaad u baahan tahay inaad taangiyada ku buuxiso khad. Habkani maaha mid adag, qof kastana wuu samayn karaa. Wanaagga ayaa ah in habkan la hagaajiyay, oo wax yar oo khalkhal ah lama dhalin, si ka duwan jiilkii ugu horreeyay ee daabacadaha EcoTank , sida Epson Expression ET-2600 .

Markaad dhammayso buuxinta taangiyada, shid daabacaha, oo bilaw habka bilawga ah. Waxay qaadataa ilaa 10 daqiiqo, ka dibna waxaad dejin kartaa daabacaha, oo ku rakib shabakadaada. La falgalka daabacaha waxaa lagu sameeyaa iyadoo la isticmaalayo shaashadda yar ee LCD iyo kiiboodhka u dhow, taasoo ka dhigaysa habka habaynta mid sahlan.

Si kastaba ha ahaatee, ku rakibida daabacaha kayaga Windows 10 kombiyuutarada ama taleefannada casriga ah ee Android waxay caddeeyeen inay yihiin kuwo adag. Marka hore^(First) , mar kasta oo aan isku dayno inaan isticmaalno Wi-Fi-ga tooska ah si aan ugu xirno daabacaha taleefannada casriga ah, daabacuhu wuxuu soo celiyay fariinta qaladka: "Daabacuhu waa mashquul, isku day mar kale mar dambe." ^{("The printer is busy, try again later.")}Dhawr jeer oo isku day ah oo guuldarraystay ka dib, waxaan u beddelnay inaan isticmaalno shaqada WPS si aan ugu xidhno shabakadda. Midkaas sidoo kale markii hore wuu ku guuldareystay, laakiin markii dambe si fiican ayey u shaqeysay. Waxaan sidoo kale isku daynay inaan isticmaalno darawalka Epson^{(Epson driver)} si aan uga rakibno daabacaha Windows 10, iyo, ka dib markii ay si sax ah u ogaatay daabacaha iyo ciwaanka IP-ga, waxay ku xayirtay shaashadda hoose, halkaas oo dhagsigeena la iska indho-tiray. Waxa kaliya ee aan sameyn karno waxay ahayd inaan xoog ku xidhno habaynta darawalka.

Xaqiiqda ah in aysan jirin wax fiilada USB ah oo ku xiran ayaa ka sii darneyd. Haddii ay jiraan, waxaad u isticmaali kartaa inaad ku rakibto daabacaha, kaas oo markaa loo habeyn karo inuu ka shaqeeyo shabakadaada.

Nasiib wanaag, Wizard-ka Windows 10 ee rakibidda daabacayaasha ayaa si fiican u shaqeeya, waxayna awood u yeelatay inay ogaato oo si sax ah u rakibto Epson EcoTank L5190 ka dib markii lagu xiray shabakadda.

Haddii ku xidhidhiyaha Epson EcoTank L5190 ee shabakadaada ay cadayso dhib, waxa kale oo aad isticmaali kartaa fiilada Ethernet , oo aad si toos ah ugu xidhi kartaa router-ka, ama furaha shabakada. Markaas, waxaad ku xidhi kartaa meel fog, oo aad habayn kartaa habka uu isagu isku xidho WiFi .

Kadib markaad rakibto daabacaha, waa inaad sidoo kale ku rakibtaa software- keeda bogga Epson , oo aad isticmaasho Epson Firmware Updater si aad u hesho firmware -kii ugu dambeeyay . Sidan, waxaad hubisaa inaad ka heli doonto khibradda isticmaale ee ugu wanaagsan Epson EcoTank L5190 .

Ku rakibida iyo dejinta Epson EcoTank L5190 waa nidaam ka dheer marka loo eego daabacadaha ku saleysan kartoonada dhaqameed. Sidoo kale, way ka dhib badan tahay sidii la rabay, sababtoo ah darawalladeeda Windows waxay leeyihiin cillado u baahan in la hagaajiyo. Sidoo kale, isku xirka Wi-Fi Direct uma eka inuu si fiican u shaqeeyo.^{(Installing and setting up Epson EcoTank L5190 is a lengthier process than on traditional cartridge-based printers. Also, it is more complicated than it should be, because its Windows drivers have bugs that need to be fixed. Also, Wi-Fi Direct connectivity does not seem to work well.)}

Isticmaalka daabacaadda Epson EcoTank^{(Epson EcoTank L5190)} L5190

Waxaan daabacnay daraasiin bogag ah oo leh qoraal, sawirro, iyo waxyaabo isku dhafan, labadaba warqad caadi ah iyo warqad sawir leh. Epson EcoTank L5190 waxay leedahay afar presets oo daabacaadda: Qabyo^(Draft) (tayo hooseeya laakiin leh isticmaalka khad ugu yar), Standard , Standard-Vivid , iyo Sare^(High) .

Daabacaada sawirada ama nuxurka isku dhafan sawirada qoraalka, oo leh midabyo kala duwan, tayada hore ee Qabyo-qoraalka^(Draft) waxay keenaysaa natiijooyin xun, sida aad hoos ku arki karto. Haddii aad rabto daabacado tayo wanaagsan leh, waa inaad isticmaashaa Preset-ka tayada leh ama Standard -Vivid^{(Standard-Vivid)} , taas oo faa'iido leh, gaar ahaan marka la macaamilayo sawirada. Tayada ugu wanagsan, Preset-ka Sare^(High) ayaa ah kan ugu wanagsan, laakin wakhtiga ay qaadanayso in la daabaco bogag aad ayay u korodhaa, sidoo kale isticmaalka khadku wuu kordhaa. Mid ka mid ah dhinaca hoose ee aan ogaanay waa in tayada hore ee tayada sare^(High) ay ka tagto boggaaga qoyan, waana inaad sugtaa inta uu qallajinayo ka hor intaadan isticmaalin.

Marka la daabacayo kaliya qoraalka madow, qabyo qoraalka^(Draft) tayada preset waa la isticmaali karo, laakiin inta badan isticmaalayaasha ayaa dooran doona Preset-ka caadiga ah^(Standard) . Qoraal ahaan, kala duwanaanshaha u dhexeeya Standard-Vivid iyo presets-yada tayada sarreeya^(High) ma ahayn kuwo si fudud loo kala saari karo, mana u malaynayno inay jirto faa'iido dhab ah oo laga helayo isticmaalka Preset- sare^(High) .

Markaad daabacdo sawirada, waa inaad isticmaashaa oo kaliya Standard-Vivid ama presets tayo sare leh. ^(High)Qorshayaasha kale waxay keenaan natiijooyin aan fiicnayn. Si kastaba ha noqotee, xitaa kuwan tayada sare leh ee hore loo dejiyay, natiijooyinka kama dambaysta ah ma noqon karaan kuwa ugu weyn. Fiiri boodhka hoose ee aan ku daabacnay Epson EcoTank L5190 ka dibna ka eeg asalka eBay . Waxaad arkaysaa in maqaarka Wonder Woman uusan u muuqan mid dabiici ah, iyo midabka magenta wuxuu u muuqdaa mid ka maqan natiijada dhamaadka.

Markaad akhrido faahfaahinta daabacahaan, waxaad arkaysaa in Epson uu sheegayo daabacaadda sawir aan xuduud lahayn. Nasiib darro, taas ayaa la heli karaa oo keliya marka la isticmaalayo warqad sawir oo yar. Markaad rabto inaad daabacdo adigoo isticmaalaya cabbirka warqadda A4 ama US, daabacaad aan xuduud lahayn lama heli karo. Taasi waxay u noqon kartaa hoos u dhac isticmaalayaasha qaarkood. Cadhada kale ayaa ah in daabacaadda laba-geesoodka ah ay u shaqeyso oo kaliya gacanta, oo aan si toos ah u shaqeyn, markaa daabacaadda laba-geesoodka ah ayaa laga yaabaa inay kaa xanaaqdo markaad isticmaalayso Epson EcoTank L5190 .

Markaad sawirto dukumentiyada iyo sawirada, waxaad heli doontaa xalal kala duwan, oo ku kala duwan 75 DPI ilaa 1200 DPI . Sida iska cad, sare u kaca DPI , ayaa ka sii wanaagsan tayada sawirka, iyo faahfaahin dheeraad ah ayaa la qabtaa. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, tani waxay sidoo kale kordhinaysaa wakhtiga ay qaadanayso in la iskaan warqad.

Tayada iskaanka ayaa wanaagsan, mar haddii aadan ka hoos marin 200 DPI . Si kastaba ha noqotee, haddii aad u tagto qaraaro sare, sida 600 ama 1200 DPI , wakhtiga sawirku aad buu u kordhay, waxaadna u baahan tahay inaad dulqaad yeelato. Mid ka mid ah dhinac aan aad u jeclayn ayaa ah in Epson Scan 2 app uu yahay mid asal ah oo aan ahayn isticmaale saaxiibtinimo sida barnaamijyada la midka ah ee ay bixiyaan soosaarayaasha kale.

Arrin kale oo niyad jab leh ayaa ah in Feeder-ka Dukumeentiga Toos ah^{(Automatic Document Feeder)} ( ADF ) uu hayn karo bogag badan, laakiin ma isticmaali kartid si aad u sawirto in ka badan hal bog markiiba. Markaad u isticmaasho sawirida ama koobiyaynta dukumeenti bogag badan, ka dib marka bogga kowaad la sawiro, ka labaad waa la xannibaa, sawirkuna wuxuu ku dhammaanayaa qaladka: "Waraaqaha warqadda ee ADF." ^{("Paper jam in the ADF.")}Si aad u isticmaasho ADF hawshan, waa inaad si dhakhso ah uga saartaa warqad kasta ka dib marka la sawiro, si aad u hesho meel ku xigta, taas oo aan macquul ahayn. Xaddidaadda naqshadeynta ayaa ka dhigaysa ADF in ay u egtahay gimmick marka loo eego muuqaal dhab ah.

Mid ka mid ah sifada togan ee Epson EcoTank L5190 waa xaqiiqda ah in haamaha khadku ay ka muuqdaan dibadda. Way fududahay in la arko khad aad u jeceshahay in aad isticmaashid iyo sida dhakhsaha ah ee aad khadku uga dhammaanayso. Sidoo kale, gelitaanka haanta dib u buuxintu waa degdeg iyo xanuun la'aan. Waxay ka kooban tahay nidaamka buuxinta khad la xoojiyey, oo loo habeeyay si loo yareeyo khatarta daadinta iyo qaska. Sidoo kale, dhalooyinka khadku waxay ku daraan habab hubinaya in taangiyada saxda ah oo keliya ay ka buuxaan midabka u dhigma.

Ku daabacaadda Epson EcoTank L5190 waa sida ay u fududahay. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, goobta tayada qabyada ah waxay keentaa natiijooyin hoose, gaar ahaan marka la daabacayo sawirada ama waxyaabo isku dhafan. Haddii aad u beddesho Standard, boggaga daabacan aad bay uga sii fiicnaanayaan. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, tani waxay ku timaadaa kharashka isticmaalka khad ka badan kii Epson loo isticmaalo qiyaasaha inta bog ee aad ku daabacan karto haanta khad buuxa.^{(Printing with the Epson EcoTank L5190 is as easy as it should be. However, the Draft quality setting delivers inferior results, especially when printing images or mixed content. If you switch to Standard, your printed pages look a lot better. However, this comes at the cost of consuming more ink than Epson used in its estimations for how many pages you can print with a full ink tank.)}

Waa maxay aragtidaada ku saabsan Epson EcoTank L5190 ?

Hadda waxaad taqaanaa waayo-aragnimadii aan la yeelanay daabacaha Epson EcoTank L5190 . Kahor intaadan xidhin dulmarkan, nala wadaag waxa aad ka qabto moodelkan. Haddii aad hore u soo iibsatay, waa maxay waayo-aragnimadaada? Hoos ka faallooda^(Comment) oo aan ka wada hadalno faa'iidooyinka iyo khasaarooyinka moodelkan.

Reviewing the Epson EcoTank L5190 all-in-one ink tank printer with ADF

Epson is a famous brand when it comes to printers, and especially to multifunctiоnal ones, like the EсoTank L5190. Thiѕ printer can also work as a scanner, copier, and fax machine. One of its key features is the EcoTank cartridge-free printing system. Epson has been іmplementing it in many of their printers, and it involves using refillable ink tanks that can be refilled with chеap ink bottles, instead of expensive cartrіdges. If you want to know what you get from Epson EcoTank L5190, and whether it is a good fit for you, read thіs review:

Epson EcoTank L5190: Who is it good for?

The Epson EcoTank L5190 all-in-one printer is a suitable choice for:

• Home users who print a lot, and want to save on ink costs
• Users who need a basic scanner alongside their printer, or a fax machine
• Small businesses that do not need high-quality photo printing
• Users that need a WiFi printer that can also be connected to mobile devices

Pros and cons

Epson EcoTank L5190 has the following strengths:

• Low-cost ink bottles that should help you save up to 90% on refills, compared with traditional cartridge-based printers
• Refilling the ink tanks is straightforward, with little in terms of spills and mess
• The Draft print quality setting uses very little ink
• Good quality prints when using Standard or higher quality settings
• You can use it to print both from your PC, your smartphone and your tablet (iOS and Android)
• Borderless printing for pictures, on photo paper
• Useful LCD screen for interacting with the printer

There are also downsides to consider:

• The Draft quality setting is a poor choice for documents with colored text and images
• The color reproduction for printing pictures deserves a bit of improvement
• Difficult to install and set up
• The Epson software needs improvement to be on par with the competition
• There is no USB cable in the box

Verdict

Epson EcoTank L5190 is a printer that helps you save money in the long run: you pay a higher price upfront, but the ink lasts for a longer time, and the refilling costs are meager. If you use the Standard quality settings, you get good quality prints for just about anything. The scanner and copier functions are both useful for home and small office users. However, there are also downsides to this product. Before deciding whether to purchase it or not, read the other sections in this review, and familiarize yourself with the strengths and weaknesses of Epson EcoTank L5190.

Hardware specifications and design

Epson EcoTank L5190 features cartridge-free printing, and it offers a large ink tank that you fill with ink from the included bottles: black, cyan, yellow, and magenta. The included ink is supposed to last up to 8100 pages in black and 6500 pages in color, when you print on Draft quality settings. Another upside is that the ink can be refilled by purchasing affordable 103 EcoTank ink bottles, lowering the total cost of ownership when compared to traditional printers.

The maximum print resolution is 5760 x 1440 dpi (dots per inch). The print speed you get from Epson EcoTank L5190 is of up to 10 pages/minute when printing in black and 5 pages/minute when printing in color. The input paper tray can take up to 100 sheets of paper or 20 photo sheets, while the output paper tray can hold up to 30 sheets of paper. Epson EcoTank L5190 also has an automatic document feeder that can take up to 30 pages. This is enough for most home users and small business offices.

This all-in-one printer can also be used as a scanner, a copier, or a fax machine. You can use it to scan documents, and pictures with a resolution that can be set anywhere from 75 DPI to 1200 DPI. Your scans can be saved as files with any of the following extensions: PDF, BMP, JPEG, and TIFF.

Epson EcoTank L5190 is a wireless printer and can work with the 802.11 b/g/n WiFi standards. Luckily, it also has WPS support, for faster connections to your home network.

Regarding operating system support, it works with Windows (from Windows XP to Windows 10), Mac OS X 10.6.8 or newer, Android and iOS (through the Epson Connect mobile app). The printer is 14.7" x 13.6" x 9.33" or 375‎ x 347 x 237 mm in width x depth x height. It is also heavy, at 11 lb or 5 kg.

If you want to see all the official specifications, including the types of paper it can print on, go to this page: Epson EcoTank L5190.

Installing and setting up the Epson EcoTank L5190 printer

After you unbox the printer and remove all the protection mechanisms, you need to fill the tanks with ink. This process is not complicated, and anyone can do it. A positive is that this process has been improved, and little to no mess is generated, unlike with the first generation of EcoTank printers, like the Epson Expression ET-2600.

When you are done filling the tanks, turn the printer on, and start the initialization process. It takes about 10 minutes, and then you can set up the printer, and install it in your network. Interacting with the printer is done using the small LCD screen and the keyboard near it, making the setup process a bit easier.

However, installing the printer from our Windows 10 computers or Android smartphones proved to be challenging. First, each time we tried to use the Wi-Fi Direct feature to connect to the printer from our smartphones, the printer returned the error message: "The printer is busy, try again later." After a couple of failed tries, we switched to use the WPS function to connect it to the network. That one failed too at first, but later on it worked well. We also tried to use the Epson driver to install the printer from Windows 10, and, after it correctly detected the printer and its IP address, it got stuck at the screen below, where our clicks were ignored. All we could do was to force-close the driver setup.

The fact that there is no USB cable bundled was even more aggravating. If there were, you could use it to install the printer, which could then be configured to work on your network.

Luckily, the Windows 10 wizard for installing printers works well, and it was able to detect and correctly install the Epson EcoTank L5190 after it was connected to the network.

If connecting the Epson EcoTank L5190 to your network proves troublesome, you can also use an Ethernet cable, and connect it straight to the router, or a network switch. Then, you can connect to it remotely, and configure the way it connects itself to WiFi.

After you install the printer, you should also install its software from the Epson website, and use the Epson Firmware Updater to get the latest firmware. This way, you ensure that you are going to get the best possible user experience from Epson EcoTank L5190.

Installing and setting up Epson EcoTank L5190 is a lengthier process than on traditional cartridge-based printers. Also, it is more complicated than it should be, because its Windows drivers have bugs that need to be fixed. Also, Wi-Fi Direct connectivity does not seem to work well.

Using the Epson EcoTank L5190 printer

We printed dozens of pages with text, pictures, and mixed content, both on regular paper and on photo paper. The Epson EcoTank L5190 has four presets for printing: Draft (low quality but with the least ink consumption), Standard, Standard-Vivid, and High.

For printing images or content that mixes pictures with text, and has several colors, the Draft quality preset delivers poor results, as you can see below. If you want good quality prints, you should use the Standard quality preset or the Standard-Vivid, which is useful, especially when dealing with pictures. For the best quality, the High preset is the best, but the time it takes to print a page increases exponentially, and so does the ink consumption. One downside that we noticed is that the High quality preset leaves your page wet, and you have to wait for it to dry before using it.

When printing only black text, the Draft quality preset is usable, but most users are going to prefer the Standard preset. For text, the differences between the Standard-Vivid and High quality presets were not easily distinguishable, and we do not think that there is a real benefit from using the High preset.

When you print pictures, you should use only the Standard-Vivid or High quality presets. Other presets deliver unsatisfactory results. However, even with these higher quality presets, the end-results may not be the greatest. Look at the poster below that we printed with Epson EcoTank L5190 and then look at the original on eBay. You see that the skin of Wonder Woman does not look natural, and the magenta color seems to be lacking from the end-result.

When you read the specifications of this printer, you see that Epson mentions borderless photo printing. Unfortunately, that is available only when using small-sized photo paper. When you want to print using the A4 or US letter paper size, borderless printing is not available. That may be a downside to some users. Another annoyance is that duplex printing works only manually, and not automatically, so two-sided printing may be annoying to you when using Epson EcoTank L5190.

When you scan documents and pictures, you get access to different resolutions, varying from 75 DPI to 1200 DPI. Obviously, the higher the DPI, the better the scan quality, and the more detail is captured. However, this also increases the time it takes to scan a piece of paper.

The scan quality is good, as long as you do not go below 200 DPI. However, if you go for higher resolutions, like 600 or 1200 DPI, the scanning time increased dramatically, and you need to be patient. One aspect that we did not like so much is that the Epson Scan 2 app is a bit primitive and not as user-friendly as similar apps offered by other manufacturers.

Another disappointing aspect is that Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) can hold many pages, but you cannot use it to scan more than one page at a time. When you use it for scanning or copying a multiple page document, after the first page is scanned, the second gets blocked, and the scan ends with the error: "Paper jam in the ADF." To use the ADF for this task, you must quickly remove each paper after it is scanned, to make room for the next, which is impractical. This design limitation makes the ADF seem more like a gimmick than a real feature.

One positive design feature of Epson EcoTank L5190 is the fact that the ink tanks are visible from the outside. It is easy to see which ink you tend to consume most and how fast you run out of ink. Also, accessing the refill tank is quick and painless. It features an enhanced ink filling system, engineered to minimize the risk of spills and mess. Also, the ink bottles incorporate a mechanism that ensures only the right tanks are filled with the corresponding color.

Printing with the Epson EcoTank L5190 is as easy as it should be. However, the Draft quality setting delivers inferior results, especially when printing images or mixed content. If you switch to Standard, your printed pages look a lot better. However, this comes at the cost of consuming more ink than Epson used in its estimations for how many pages you can print with a full ink tank.

What is your opinion about the Epson EcoTank L5190?

Now you know about the experience we had with the Epson EcoTank L5190 printer. Before closing this review, share with us what you think about this model. If you have purchased it already, what is your experience with it? Comment below and let's discuss the pros and cons of this model.

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