Epson’s ‘small in one’ multifunction printers are a good choice for homes where space is a bit tight, but previous models in the range have tended to be fairly conventional four-colour printers. As the name implies, the new Premium model is more advanced and uses five inks to produce high-quality photo prints.The XP-640 uses five separate ink cartridges, with the traditional cyan, magenta yellow and black inks complemented by a special ‘photo-black’ ink that helps to improve contrast and colour in photo prints. However, it maintains the compact dimensions of its predecessors, measuring just 130mm high, 385mm wide and 335mm deep.
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It doesn’t skimp on features though, including a 1200x2400dpi A4 scanner and copier, USB and Wi-Fi connectivity with Apple’s Air Print for iOS devices, and Google Cloud Print and Epson’s own Connect app for other mobile devices.Those aren’t major weaknesses, though, and the XP-640 does deliver when it comes to print quality. Its 1440x5760dpi resolution ensures that text output is close to laser quality, so it’ll work well for letters, school reports and other documents. And, of course, the five-ink system ensures very crisp, colorful photos and color graphics.
It’s not really fast enough for business use (and it's not intended for this), but print speeds of around 12 pages per minute for plain text, and 8ppm for mixed text and graphics, should be perfectly adequate for most routine printing at home.Photo printing was a little sluggish, though. Epson quotes a speed of 20 seconds for 6x4in postcard print, but our test prints took 45 seconds when using the ‘standard quality’ settings, and 75 seconds for ‘high quality’. Even so, keen photographers probably won’t mind waiting a few seconds longer in order to get this sort of quality for their photo prints.
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