Epson WorkForce Pro ST-C5500
- 25 ISO ppm colour and black, first page in 5.5 seconds
- Up to two years of ink included, then low cost 542 bottles
- Rated to 66,000 pages a month
- 4.3 inch touchscreen, 50 sheet document feeder, fax
- Two year limited warranty
Why businesses choose it
This is the machine for an office that wants everyday colour without ever swapping a cartridge. The ink lives in refillable tanks you top up from keyed 542 bottles, and the box includes enough ink to print up to 12,000 pages in black and 8,800 in colour before you spend a dollar on supplies. It prints 25 ISO pages a minute in both colour and black with the first page out in 5.5 seconds, scans through the 50 sheet two sided document feeder, copies at 23 a minute, and faxes.
The running cost is the story. Replacement 542 bottles yield 7,500 pages in black and 6,000 in each colour, so the cost per page lands well below colour laser toner. PrecisionCore heat free printing means fewer moving parts than a laser and no fuser to wear out, prints come out dry, sharp and highlighter safe, and two sided printing runs at 21 pages a minute. PCL and PostScript 3 support means it drops into managed office environments cleanly.
It is a great fit for an office printing up to about 3,300 pages a month, the recommended volume the specifications note, with headroom to a 66,000 page monthly duty cycle, and it carries a two year limited warranty. If your volume runs heavier, the WorkForce Pro ST-C8000 takes the same Supertank approach further, and either machine qualifies for our automatic supplies management so ink arrives before it runs out.
Living with it
Specifications at a glance
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