It's not that the photo output is in unacceptable. Photo quality is decent, with good detail overall and spot-on colors, though some of our test images from the WF-7710 came out looking a little dull and washed out, even when I printed them at the highest setting on the premium glossy paper Epson sent me. I did see some minor banding in some of the darker backgrounds and gradients, as well as some color shifting from lighter tints to darker ones, but hardly enough to render the documents as unacceptable, except for, perhaps, the most exacting artwork designed for engaging clients. The Brother MFC-J6935DW came in 23 seconds faster, and the HP 7720 and the HP 7740 were just a few seconds slower.īusiness graphics, too, looked good, for the most part. The WF-7710 printed our test snapshots in 29 seconds, 4 seconds slower than the WF-7720. Brother's MFC-J6935DW, on the other hand, beat the WF-7710 by almost 5ppm.įinally, to test how quickly the WF-7710 prints photographs, I ran our two color-rich and highly detailed 4-by-6-inch snapshots through it several times, clocking and averaging the results. The WF-7720 and the HP 7720, for example, scored about the same, and the HP 7740 was 2.5ppm faster. That's about what I would expect for this class of inkjet AIO. When I combined these scores with those from printing our several colorful graphics- and image-laden PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint business documents, the Epson WF-7710's score dropped by half, to 7.2ppm.
That's close to the WF-7720's score (which, at 14.4ppm, isn't a screamer, either), about 9ppm slower than the HP 7740 and the HP 7720, and about 2ppm pages behind the Brother MFC-J6935DW. The Brother MFC-J6935DW, on the other hand, supports 600 sheets, from three sources, while the HP OfficeJet Pro 7740 holds 500 and the HP OfficeJet Pro 7720 holds 501. It's essentially the same printer as its sibling, the WorkForce WF-7720, minus one 250-sheet paper tray. Measuring 13.4 by 22.3 by 32.2 inches (HWD) and weighing 40.8 pounds, the WF-7710 can hold 251 sheets via a 250-sheet paper tray up front and a 1-sheet override tray on the back. It's worth considering the WF-7710 if you need to print super-tabloid size pages (the Brother model can only handle up to tabloid size), but otherwise, the Epson is a perfectly good printer that faces some very stiff competition. However, the WF-7710 costs significantly more to use than our Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J6935DW, and its paper capacity is less than half.
It also scans, copies, and faxes up to tabloid size (11 by 17 inches). The Epson WorkForce WF-7710 Wide-Format All-in-One Printer ($249.99) is a super-tabloid all-in-one (AIO) capable of borderless prints up to 13 by 19 inches.
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