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THE BOTTOM LINE
The budget-minded Epson Expression Home XP-4100 Small-in-One prints and copies well, fulfilling its niche as a low-volume family and home-office machine.
MSRP $99.00
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As the pandemic lingers on, working from home has become the new normal, resulting in (among other things) a slew of entry-level office machines. Epson’s latest contribution, the Expression Home XP-4100 Small-in-One Printer ($99.99), is a low-volume printer, copier, and scanner (no fax) positioned just below and priced $20 below the aging XP-5100. The new Expression prints well enough, though it struggled a bit with a few of our more intricate full-page business graphics. Photos and text looked good, though—as with most printers in this price range—per-page costs are high. However, that should be a problem only if you print more than, say, 100 to 150 pages each month. If your print and copy volumes are modest and you don’t copy or scan multipage documents frequently (this AIO has no automatic document feeder or ADF), the XP-4100 should serve your home-based office well.
EPSON EXPRESSION HOME XP-4100 SMALL-IN-ONE PRINTER SPECS
| Type | All-in-one |
| Color or Monochrome | Color |
| Connection Type | USB, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct |
| Number of Ink Colors | 4 |
| Number of Ink Cartridges/Tanks | 4 |
| Direct Printing From Media Cards | No |
| Direct Printing From USB Thumb Drives | No |
| Rated Speed at Default Settings (Color) | 5 ppm |
| Rated Speed at Default Settings (Mono) | 10 ppm |
| Printer Input Capacity | 100 sheets plain paper, 10 sheets premium photo paper |
| Cost Per Page (Monochrome) | 8 cents |
| Cost Per Page (Color) | 20 cents |
| Print Duplexing | Yes |
| Automatic Document Feeder | No |
| Scanner Type | Flatbed |
| Duplexing Scans | No |
| Maximum Scan Area | Letter |
| Scanner Optical Resolution | 1200 pixels per inch |
| Standalone Copier and Fax | Copier |
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