Epson WorkForce Pro WF-C5890

This is the machine for a front office that prints all day and needs colour doing it: invoices and manifests, but also proposals, flyers and anything a customer sees. It prints 25 ISO pages a minute in both colour and black with the first page out in 5.3 seconds, scans through the 50 sheet document feeder, copies at 22 a minute, and faxes. PrecisionCore heat free printing means fewer moving parts than a colour laser and no fuser to wear out or replace.

The running cost is what sets it apart. DURABrite Ultra pigment cartridges come in sizes to 10,000 pages in black and 5,000 in colour, prints come out dry, sharp and highlighter safe, and two sided printing runs at 16 pages a minute. It also speaks PCL and PostScript emulation, so it drops into managed office environments cleanly. Paper capacity grows with the work: the 250 sheet tray and 80 sheet rear feed extend to 1,830 sheets with three optional 500 sheet trays.

It is a great fit for an office printing up to about 5,000 pages a month, the recommended volume the specifications note, with headroom to a 70,000 page monthly duty cycle, and it carries a two year limited warranty. If your printing is black only, the WorkForce Pro WF-M5899 covers the same duty at a lower running cost, and either machine qualifies for our automatic supplies management so ink arrives before it runs out.