Epson WorkForce Pro WF-4740

All-In-One Printers / All-In-One Cartridge Inkjet Printers

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Overall Score

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What goes into the Overall Score?

OWNER SURVEYS

Text quality

/ 5

Text speed

/ 5

Graphics quality

/ 5

Photo quality

/ 5

Maintenance ink use

/ 5

Scan quality

/ 5

Versatility

/ 5

Ease of use

/ 5

Convenience

/ 5

Copy quality

/ 5

Power saving

/ 5

Color

/ 5

Ink cost/year ($)

/ 5

Cost of ownership ($)

/ 5

About

The Epson WorkForce Pro WF-4740 is part of the Printers test program at Consumer Reports. In our lab tests, All-In-One Printers models like the WorkForce Pro WF-4740 are rated on multiple criteria, such as those listed below.

Text quality: How crisply and clearly a printer produced black text in a variety of fonts, sizes, and styles. Models with higher scores produce more uniform type, with deep black printing, sharp edges and smooth curves.

Text speed: How quickly the model can print black text on five pages of plain, letter-sized paper. The best printers take less than 16 seconds while the worst take more than 31.

Graphics quality: The appearance of color graphics produced by the printer. The best quality graphics is perfectly sharp, has accurate colors, and is free of defects like banding or rough edges. Black-and-white lasers were judged on black-and-white graphics and the accuracy of various shades of gray.

Features & Specs

Features

Wide format printer

Auto-duplex printing

Yes

Automatic document feeder

Yes

Auto-duplex scanning

Yes

Built-in fax

Yes

Refillable ink tank system

Can print if color empty

Yes

Flatbed design for scanning and copying

Yes

Memory-card reader

Auto-duplexing

Yes

Individual color cartridges

Yes

Individual color tanks

Yes

Swap black for photo ink

N/A

Borderless photos

Yes

LCD viewer

Yes

Water-resistant photos

Specs

Product type

Large, weighty, all-in-one cartridge inkjet printer

Standard sheet capacity

250

Height (in.)

Width (in.)

16.7

Depth (in.)

Maximum paper size

8.5x14

Maximum paper basis-weight

200

Text cost (cents)

2.2

Graphics cost (cents)

12.4

Printing method

inkjet

Type of ink

Number of colors

List of inks/toners

Prices of inks/toners

Time to replace first cartridge

2-year ownership cost ($)

5-year ownership cost ($)

Text speed (ppm)

12.5

4x6 photo cost ($)

Platform

Windows, macOS

8x10 photo cost ($)

1.1

Number of cartridges

Ink cost/month ($)

6.92

Connections

Connectivity

WiFi, NFC, USB, Ethernet, Apple Airprint

Networking

E, W, A

WiFi Auto-connect

Yes

PictBridge

WiFi Direct

Yes

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