| | |  | Office Supplies | Home » » Epson WorkForce 500 All-in-One Printer (Black) (C11CA40201) | | | | | | | Description: | | Match the speed you move at with the fast and efficient Epson WorkForce 500 all-in-one printer, your personal business and photo center. This amazing all-in-one quickly delivers prints and copies, plus laser quality text, allowing you to create stunning proposals and impressive brochures, in house and on demand. The WorkForce 500 is ready to handle whatever comes its way, whether you need to scan a proposal into editable text, fax a presentation, or enlarge that family photo. And, it uses up to three times less energy than a laser printer. The right features, the right price, and truly remarkable results — that is the WorkForce 500. | | | Features: | |
• 5-in-1 print, copy, scan, fax, photo
• Print up to 33 ppm in black and color
• Built-in memory card slots and 2.5-inch LCD
• Built-in, 30-page ADF
• OCR and creative software included
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 16.1 inches | | Product Width:
| 18.1 inches | | Product Height:
| 9.3 inches | | Product Weight:
| 16.8 pounds | | Package Length:
| 20.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 18.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 11.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 21.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 127 reviews |
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110 of 113 found the following review helpful:
 Never Liked All-in-One's, but I Love this Unit from EpsonSep 11, 2008
By givpilot
I've never been a fan of All-in-One's because I always felt too much was compromised; I just wouldn't settle for a poor printer, or scanner, or copier or fax machine just for the convenience of having everything in one box. Epson has changed the playing field, however. I'm not saying Epson has merged the absolute best of each of those pieces of equipment, but they have produced a remarkably well designed and engineered product with minimal compromise. The printer is excellent, the text approaches laser quality and the copier and fax work fine, the 30 page automatic document feeder works without a hick-up -- and what a joy that is!. The scanner is fast, operates with very easy to use intuitive software and it produces excellent text and photo scans. Epson also includes OCR software with the unit.
Yes, you can buy a better printer... there certainly are printers that print faster and print photos better (I have a $1,000 photo printer that I use for the "serious" stuff) but this one works fine for the everyday tasks. And there are better scanners, this one won't do negatives or slides, for example, but for most everyday scanning tasks it's absolutely fine. And as far as fax and copy machines go, the fax and copies are first rate and better than every other "home office" machine I've tried.
All in all, Epson has a winner with the Workforce 500. I really only needed a new fax machine, but the price on this unit was so low I thought I might as well try it and at least I'd have a backup printer if I needed one. Despite my preconceived notions, besides being a great fax machine, it turned out to be a very good printer, scanner and copier. I guess you learn something everyday. Setup was quick and the startup guide takes you step-by-step through the process with easy to follow pictures and text. I had the unit up and running within 15 minutes on a computer using Vista Home Premium.
I'm delighted with my purchase and I use it frequently for my everyday printer and scanner needs. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
52 of 54 found the following review helpful:
Best all-in-one I've triedSep 17, 2008
By Susan M
I don't often write product reviews, but I've been so happy with my Epson WorkForce 500 since I got it that I had to write in. I've always used Epson printers before because I think the print and photo quality is the highest I've seen. I suffered along without a feeder because Epson didn't offer an all-in-one with one, so I am thrilled with the Epson 500 because in addition to being much faster than my previous printer, it has the feeder and the fax incorporated into the printer. In the first week after getting the Epson 500, I was able to pack up the fax machine on my desk that took up lots of space and save myself a trip to Staples(and the associated expense)to have a 40-page document copied (something I never would have done on a flat-bed printer).
In terms of ease of use, I find it to be relatively intuitive. I did, however, have a little trouble on setup (I did not fully read the directions!) because the OK key was not always the default button to move on to the next step. Once I read the directions, though, it was extremely simple.
In summary, I couldn't be more thrilled with my purchase - it's a fabulous home office printer with every feature you could want.
40 of 42 found the following review helpful:
Nice All-In-OneSep 28, 2008
By H. Ongaro
Very nice All-In-One. It prints beautifully; crisp, clear, & bold. The photo printer works as well as my stylus photo printer. Great detail and color to the pictures. The fax works fine. I've faxed a couple of things. One had ten pages and I'm not sure if it was this fax or the fax on the other end, but while faxing the "transmission was interrupted" so I had to refax the last few pages. The scanner works OK. I've only used it twice to copy recipes from a book and they were clear. The print speed is good but not super speedy. It faxes a little slowly. It is also a little noisy but not obnoxiously so. The set up and connection to my Mac was easy. No tricky requirements. I've had it for about 10 days & so far it is working seamlessly. It has a relatively small footprint and looks very sleek. Ink is easy to load too but not cheap. I like the separate cartridges. You will need a USB cord though.
44 of 48 found the following review helpful:
 Poor Scanning Construction, No duplex support as advertisedNov 22, 2008
By Keith
I purchased this product after my HP 5610 stopped working. I make heavy use of the ADF scanning and noticed the Epson Workforce 500 was billed as supported duplex printing. Both of these selling points failed to perform as expected and I returned the unit.
There is no duplex printing support on this device. Despite marketing speech to the contrary the only double sided printing support is that a window pops up on your screen requesting you to turn the sheet of paper around to print on the opposite side.
The scanner's document feeder did not perform at all. The construction made it relatively difficult to add standard 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper into the feeder without getting caught on a number of ledges and horizontal barriers meant to keep the paper in alignment. Once the sheet to be scanned was properly inserted the scanner was almost never able to scan a sheet of paper without "slipping" - when this occurred the drive motors continued to move and the scanner portion believe the sheet was sliding past it but in reality the paper was stuck midway thru the scanner.
25 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Defective - prints crookedDec 06, 2008
By S. Simon
I received this printer about a month ago. I plugged it in, printed about 3 pages from MapQuest just to verify it worked and about 10 or so pages since then. During those 30 days, I left it in standby. I did this because another user suggested not turning if off and on each day as it would purge the nozzles and consume too much ink. The other reviewer just recommended leaving it on all the time to save on ink.
For whatever reason, when I went to print my resume last night on nice paper, all the color inks only reads 2/3 full. I only printed about a dozen pages since I unpacked the printer, and the inks read full on day 1. I did not print photos or anything beyond standard quality, so I was very surprised to see the ink drain itself in standby mode to that extent.
What really upset me was when I took my two resumes to work for an interview later. When I looked at them, I realized they were very crooked with the paper being worn on the edge. I figure I either had the blue slider too tight (the slider is located where the paper goes in) or the paper was too thick.
I fortunately had my resume saved in my email, so I was able to reprint it at work on plain paper, a letdown. One of my co-workers agreed with me that the resume printed from the Epson 500 was not presentable.
When I got home, I carefully reloaded the printer with plain paper, carefully aligning it and I tried to slide the blue slider further over. I was unable to slide the blue slider further as it is designed to handle paper no wider than 8.5 inches. I printed several pages, got worn marks on some with crooked text. I re-inserted and tried again with the same problems.
Fortunately, I am on my last 30 days with Amazon so I was able to get a return label. I suspect a replacement printer would not have the issue with the slanted text. However, this printer also has a thirst for ink in standby mode, so I have decided not to replace it.
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