Epson Expression Premium XP-820 Pro Reviews

If you're looking for a device that prints high-quality color photos in addition to handling your regular printing tasks, this is a great option. Not every customer will need to shell out for a higher end desktop printer just to print photos from the Grand Canyon. However, the Epson XP-820 is a great option for a household in need of a multi-tasking home office printer that can also print high-quality photos.

We’ve kvetched for years now about the too-high per-page cost of ink for consumer photo printers. It looked for a while like Kodak—before it went belly-up—would buck this trend, but now it doesn’t look like the status quo will change any time soon. Today, in fact, the difference in cost per page between the average business-optimized AIO and a photo-centric one is steep enough that it's reasonable, if you’re a photo enthusiast, to own two printers: one for photos and another for business documents. If you expect to print heavily, in doing that you could save enough in a single month to pay for that second printer—and then some. With that in mind: We liked this printer, but as we said about its predecessors, though it delivers quality prints, it’s not overly well suited as a volume-output machine. Still, the Expression Premium XP-820 comes with all the features necessary to service a home-based office or small workgroup, should you need that depth of functionality—but not a ton of printing.

The Epson Expression Premium XP-820 Small-in-One Printer is a compact inkjet multifunction printer (MFP) with respectable speed, good photo and graphics quality, and a wide range of features for both home and home-office use.