Epson WorkForce ST-C8090

This is the Supertank for an office that needs more than letter and legal. It prints up to 13 x 19 inches for posters, spreadsheets and drawings, copies and scans up to 11 x 17 through the flatbed and the 50 sheet document feeder, and runs 25 ISO pages a minute in both colour and black with the first page out in 5.5 seconds. It also speaks PCL 5 and 6 and PostScript 3, so it drops straight into print environments that expect those languages, and the box holds enough ink to print up to 19,500 pages in black and 14,800 in colour.

The running cost stays the Supertank 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 with borderless printing up to 11 x 17.

It is a great fit for an office printing up to about 3,300 pages a month that wants tabloid capability without stepping up to a floor standing copier, with headroom to a 66,000 page monthly duty cycle and a two year limited warranty. If letter and legal cover your work, the WorkForce Pro ST-C5500 gives you the same Supertank economics in a smaller machine, and either qualifies for our automatic supplies management so ink arrives before it runs out.