Epson L 130 is very budget friendly printer with advanced printer head and ink tank technology. Let’s take a look at its Specs which makes me feel positive about this printer.
Printing Technology
Epson uses its piezoelectric ink on demand technology which ensures ink comes out of tank when it is needed which avoids drying of ink into tubes when not in use for long time which was main problem in past ink cartridge printers.
Microscopic piezoelectric Nozzles(180 black and 59 of each colour) make sure to count every drop of ink on paper with vast control which makes use of least ink and provides great prints at such low printing cost.
Page Yield
Always a prime concern when buying a printer is its yield or printing capacity on one refill. L 130 can print 4500 B/w and 7500 colour prints approximately at a refill cost around Rs. 350 per bottle of ink. this gives us per page print cost very low like 8p for B/w and 18p for colour.
Paper Handling
Printer can handle almost all kind of page types which are used in day to day life like A4, A5, A6, B5, Legal, Letter and envelop. Also it can print high quality photos in different sizes.
Input tray capacity is 50 sheets of A4 size pages and 10 sheets of premium glossy photo paper. Output tray capacity is to handle 30 sheets of A4 pages and 20 sheets of glossy photo paper.
Print Speed
Print speed is averagely good with this printer i.e. 27ppm in B/w and 15ppm in colour. Photo of high quality takes nearly 25sec to print as per my experience.
Hardware and Software
Design of the printer is very compact and sturdy, weighs just 2.4kg approx. Software disk is provided in the box and also available online on Epson website.
Printer Connectivity
Only way to connect printer is to use USB 2.0, there is no other way to connect printer to your PC.
User Friendly
As per my own experience this is a very easy to use printer if you just follow instructions in the manual and onscreen while installing drivers. while printing is such an easy task that you never think that you are doing this for the first time.
As the name suggest it is single function printer means there are no such other useful features we can discuss about this printer.
So moral of the story, if you are thinking of the budget printer you can definately think once about this product before spending money on the other costly products.