Epson Stylus NX415 All-in-One Printer

by Epson

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 17.7 x 11.7 inches ; 15.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 17 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0026ZPK34
• Item model number: C11CA44231
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (98 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 15, 2009

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer Smart. Simple. Amazing. - Get fast speeds and perfect photos, PC-free, with the Epson Stylus NX415 — the easy-to-use all-in-one. The NX415 features a large LCD screen (2.5-inch), plus built-in memory card slots and PictBridge™ compatibility for printing stacks of borderless photos up to 8.5” x 11” without even turning on your computer. This full-featured all-in-one does more than produce great photos. It’s ideal for all your everyday projects, and offers print speeds faster than competitively priced models. Get black and color text documents at maximum print speeds of 34 ppm black/color^†. Quickly scan and archive important documents and photos and save them as JPEGs or PDFs with the easy-to-use software included. Or, reduce and enlarge vivid, color copies 25 to 400%. Even make quick copies in color or black-and-white with one touch. With instant-dry DURABrite^® Ultra Ink, prints are ready to handle immediately after printing. In fact, they’re smudge, fade and water resistant — and even highlighter friendly!

Get more for your money

With the Epson Stylus NX series, you get impressive features, superior quality and performance, and a better value overall, compared to competitive products at the same price point. With the Epson Stylus NX415, you get faster print speeds, higher quality scanning, better image enhancement tools and the largest color LCD screen in its class at 2.5 inches.

Brilliant borderless photos – PC-free!

Brilliant borderless photos are easy to achieve, with or without a computer! With its large, 2.5-inch LCD, PictBridge support and built-in memory card slots, the Epson Stylus NX415 makes it easy to print borderless photos in multiple sizes right from your memory card or camera. Amaze your friends and family with built-in photo restoration. Automatically bring the color back to old, faded photos at the touch of a button, without a computer.

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Better image enhancement tools

Epson sets the highest standards for image quality compared to competitive products. Get amazing results automatically. Auto Photo Correction will correct the lighting in poorly exposed images to ensure you never print a bad photo. And, it includes advanced face detection, which distinguishes people from scenery, correcting the color accordingly to ensure beautiful, natural skin tones for results better than the competition. With just the click of a button and no special software, you can even remove red eye.

Everyday projects made simple

With quick, easy setup and user-friendly features, the Epson Stylus NX415 is ideal for all your everyday projects. Scan important documents or photos and save them as JPEGs or PDFs. Make stacks of copies, in color or black-and-white, with just one touch. Pair your NX415 with Epson specialty paper and create colorful fliers or greeting cards with such amazing quality, they are sure to impress. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to get remarkable results.

Replace only the cartridge you need!

The Epson Stylus NX415 is smart to own. Individual ink cartridges give you control over ink usage. There are even multiple sizes available to accommodate your budget and specific print volume needs. Best of all, only one set of cartridges is needed to print amazing documents and outstanding photos. There’s no need to spend additional money on specialized cartridges to print photos.

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Worry-free handling

While many competitive inks often take several minutes to dry, prints made with DURABrite Ultra pigment ink allow you to handle documents and photos immediately after printing. Prints are smudge and water resistant — and even highlighter friendly. Plain paper documents resist fading up to six times longer than leading competitive prints¹, making it easier than ever to archive important documents.

Save paper

Saving is easy with the Epson Stylus^® NX415 — you save money and paper. In fact, with manual, two sided printing, you’ll save up to 50% of your paper supply².

Quality without compromise

Print documents with crisp, sharp text and photos with vivid, true-to-life color. The Epson Stylus NX415 delivers exceptional quality output, without sacrificing speed. Engineered with award-winning MicroPiezo^® ink jet technology, this powerful performer offers maximum print speeds of 34 ppm black/color^†. And, it prints 4x6 photos in as fast as 26 seconds^†.

Product protection you can count on

The Epson Stylus NX415 comes standard with a one-year limited warranty. It also includes a quick and convenient product exchange program. So, you can rest easy, knowing you have dependable service and support.

Features/Benefits

• Borderless photos, PC-free — 2.5-inch LCD screen and built-in memory card slots
• Faster print speeds, without compromising quality — maximum print speeds of 34 ppm black/color and laser quality print speeds of 4.3 ppm black/color^†
• Quick, high-quality scanning up to 2400 dpi — scan important papers, recipes, bills, report cards and photos and save them as JPEGs or PDFs using the included software.
• Superior image enhancement tools — restore the color to old, faded photos; better than the competition
• Instant copies — reduce/enlarge copies of receipts or documents 25 – 400%
• Correct over-/under-exposed photos — you can even remove red eye with one touch
• Replace only the color you need — individual ink cartridges, available in different sizes
• Truly touchable photos and documents — instant-dry ink for smudge, fade and water resistant prints
• Save time — make multiple copies (1 – 99) with one touch
• Manual Two-sided printing² — a great way to save paper
• Reduce costs — High-capacity Black cartridge available
• Standard ink set included — includes one 69 Black ink cartridge and three 69 color ink cartridges
• Packaging Specifications — Dimensions 20.3 x 9.1 x 15.7 in (W x D x H) and Weight 16.5 lb.

Eco features

• Save up to 50% of your paper supply with manual, two-sided printing²
• ENERGY STAR^® qualified
• Designed to be Recycled³

Recommended Supplies

Epson Ink Supplies 69 DURABrite Ultra Black ink cartridge (T069120) 69 DURABrite Ultra Cyan ink cartridge (T069220) 69 DURABrite Ultra Magenta ink cartridge (T069320) 69 DURABrite Ultra Yellow ink cartridge (T069420) 69 DURABrite Ultra color multi-pack (3 colors) (T069520) Epson Paper Supplies Premium Presentation Paper Matte 8.5 x 11 in, 50 sheets (S041257) Bright White Paper 8.5 x 11 in, 500 sheets (S041586) Presentation Paper Matte 8.5 x 11 in, 100 sheets (S041062) Premium Photo Paper Semi-gloss 8.5 x 11 in, 20 sheets (S041331) Premium Photo Paper Glossy 4 x 6 in, 100 sheets (S041727)

What’s in the Box

• Stylus NX415 Ink Jet All-in-One
• Instruction booklet
• CD-ROM containing drivers and software )Windows and Macintosh^®)
• One 69 Black ink cartridge
• One 69 Cyan ink cartridge
• One 69 Magenta ink cartridge
• One 69 Yellow ink cartridge

Epson Stylus NX series
Smart. Simple. Amazing.

Extraordinary results are easy to achieve with an Epson NX series product. Ideal for all your everyday projects, these fast, affordable ink jets deliver quality without compromise. With award-winning ink jet technology and smart, intuitive features, Epson NX series products ensure premium quality results at a price that’s sure to please.

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1. Ink fade resistance ratings based on accelerated testing of unframed color prints in indoor display conditions. Claim that documents resist fading up to six times longer is based on accelerated testing of unframed color prints on plain paper in indoor display conditions. Actual print stability will vary according to light intensity, temperature, humidity and other factors. Epson does not guarantee the longevity of prints. See www.wilhelm-research.com
2. Some applications and/or functions, like two-sided printing, may not be supported by Mac^®.
3. See our website for convenient and reasonable recycling options at www.epson.com/recycle.

Product Description

Get fast speeds and perfect photos, PC-free, with the Epson Stylus NX415 - the easy-to-use all-in-one. The NX415 features a large LCD screen (2.5-inch), plus built-in memory card slots and PictBridgeTM compatibility for printing stacks of borderless photos up to 8.5” x 11” without even turning on your computer. This full-featured all-in-one does more than produce great photos. It’s ideal for all your everyday projects, and offers print speeds faster than competitively priced models. Get black and color text documents at maximum print speeds of 34 ppm black/color†. Quickly scan and archive important documents and photos and save them as JPEGs or PDFs with the easy-to-use software included. Or, reduce and enlarge vivid, color copies 25 to 400 percent. Even make quick copies in color or black-and-white with one touch. With instant-dry DURABrite Ultra Ink, prints are ready to handle immediately after printing. In fact, they’re smudge, fade and water resistant - and even highlighter friendly!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

90 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Head Above, July 27, 2009

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LocalHostSudo (Southern Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Epson Stylus NX415 All-in-One Printer (Office Product)

I had abandoned Epson years ago and switched to Lexmark printers because of the great "deals" that could be had. I decided to give up on Lexmark because of all the problems I've encountered with their printers. You get what you pay for I suppose. I figured I'd give Epson a chance before going elsewhere and I'm glad I did!

Initially I was looking at the NX515 because of the Wifi capabilities, but decided the price bump wasn't worth it. I paid somewhere around $60.00 for this machine, and I feel it was worth every penny.

The first thing I noticed, which I couldn't find in other AIO printers in the same price range, is separate ink cartridges for each color. The printer takes 4 cartridges, one each for CMKY. Each replacement cartridge costs about $13. While not the cheapest, you still save money in the long run because you don't have to replace all 3 colors at once as you do with a single multi-color cartridge.

The scanner is AMAZING to say the least. You can scan up to 4800 DPI which is more than enough for most people. At the highest scan resolution you can see each individual fiber on a sheet of paper! Excellent for making high resolution photos out of regular 4x6 film photos. Print quality is very nice. Faster than most AIO's out there. Photo printing is nice with no graininess or streaks. Edges are crisp and well defined, saturation and color matching is good.

Navigational buttons are simple and easy to use. Menus are user friendly. The small LCD screen is a big help ( it adjusts to give a better viewing angle) and turns off after a few minutes of disuse to save energy. Memory card reader is simple to use once you figure out which way they're supposed to go in. You can crop, rotate, and print photos right from the printer and it's surprisingly easy.

My only complaint is that it only comes in black! In all it's a cheap printer with some wonderful features that's a perfect companion to any computer.

50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Low initial cost but high maintenance, October 21, 2009

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Doctor.Generosity (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epson Stylus NX415 All-in-One Printer (Office Product)

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Inkjets have come a long way and the inks no longer fade as rapidly as in years past. The photo results can be beautiful. But most of the technology is in the print head cartridges and the business model of the makers is to sell as many of those as possible. Low cost printers like this one from Epson are viewed by their manufacturers as a loss leader whose main purpose is to addict you to buying their cartridges. To do this, they basically give away the printer. This Epson Stylus NX415 sells on Amazon for $69 including a full set of four colored ink cartridges. But when time comes to reload the cartridges - which will be sooner than you think - the replacement set costs $48! This is as if you bought some cool very low cost car for only $2,000 but then discovered it requires special fuel which costs $1,400 per tank!

Since the print cartridges are the real core of the function, you may ask what does it matter which printer you buy? It matters because the printer unit is what aligns everything to perfection and transports the media precisely - the mechanical stuff. Of course mechanical precision and robustness is exactly what you don't get with a very cheap printer. Since, exclusive of the cartridges, this entire printer with its internal computer, LCD and motors, and free shipping is being sold in effect for about ten bucks, you will not be surprised that it is constructed from very flimsy bits of plastic. Plastic gears, etc. It's not designed as a workhorse. Epson is subsidizing this to get you hooked on consumables, not unlike a cellphone contract. This is also why Epson engineers a few tricks into the mechanism to make sure you keep buying their own cartridges. Once you've removed an ink cartridge for example, it cannot be reinserted. The sole reason for this is to keep you from committing the sin of refilling the cartridge with third-party ink. Also, the printer is programmed to stop operating if any one of the four cartridges is low; you are not allowed to make your own decision whether to continue with black-only use for documents for example.

I don't know about you, but I find these marketing manipulations a bit offensive. The low initial price of the printer is misleading. Serious users of inkjet photos would be better off buying a better quality and more durable model. Over time, its higher cost is overshadowed by the cost of the ink anyway. Not only ink but high end photo paper is expensive; about a dollar per 8 ½ x 11 sheet. Taking into account that you may print a photo more than once to get it perfect, this is is not a cheap process. Better equipment saves paper from do-overs.

An inexpensive all-in-one inkjet like this is intended for households whose workload and usage are light. Also, inkjets - any inkjets - can't be left to sit unused for months, or the nozzles will clog up. So you must use it just the right amount, not too much but not too little. This is inconvenient and most people who do lots of printing don't use inkjets at all. For routine daily text document printing, a small laser printer is a better choice. And for photos, you will get more permanent, less expensive results in the long run by printing on real photo paper (Fuji Crystal) using online services such as Shutterfly, Ritz or even Costco - with no cost for capital equipment and paying just for little bits of materials as you use them. The NX415 is a good match for the home or home office user who needs occasional color photo printing, occasional document printing, occasional scanning, occasional copying, nothing to overstress the flimsy construction. Perhaps it would be placed with a computer you use only once a week. Here's a rule of thumb; if you replace the ink cartridges on this unit more than once a year, it is not such a good deal.

Now to the test. I set the printer up and performed some color and black-and-white copies; this does not require a computer. Results were good and color copying was surprisingly accurate, close to the original with only a bit less contrast. For example this would be just right for copying a few old photos from grandma's album to give to other family members. Scanning worked fine and the Epson scanning software for my MacBook with OS 10.6 operated smoothly. As an experiment, I tried scanning a small object - a steel ruler - at the highest resolution, 9600 dpi. This worked essentially as a microscope, giving a highly detailed magnified scan - quite fun and great for your kids' science projects!

Printing color digital images onto good quality Epson photo paper produced variable but sometimes lovely results with bright, soft colors and good skin tones. Overall the images lacked snap and contrast; they were not the very best I have seen from inkjets, but generally good. Also, I had trouble with banding. I adjusted the alignment and cleaned the nozzles in an attempt to eliminate the banding, but was not entirely successful, hence four stars. (Those plastic gears you know.) All of this playing around uses paper and ink.

Bottom line: Although it is probably not durable, and it is certainly high maintenance, I am giving this unit four stars because it does most of what it is advertised to do - printing, copying scanning - with pretty nice results for a price less than taking your girlfriend out to a good restaurant. But consider it a light duty, limited life unit. The consumables are very expensive - once you start replacing cartridges, you have fallen into Epson's marketing trap.

51 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not A Good Start, July 2, 2009

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Sarah Brighton (Sammamish, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epson Stylus NX415 All-in-One Printer (Office Product)

I have owned Epson printers for years & loved them! However, I have to say that I was very dissapointed with this particular model & I am in the process of sending it back to Amazon.

The first couple of pages printed great, then it went downhill from there. Everytime I wanted to print, I needed to do a head clean as there were lines all across the page. Unfortunately when you do a head clean, it uses a lot of ink, so after trying to use the printer for about 10 days, the ink went down by about two thirds in every cartridge.

I will be shopping around for a different printer & maybe I'll try Epson again, but we'll see :)

On the more positive side, It is very affordable at around $100, it is a very smart looking all in one & I do like the little digital screen so you can view the menu & your photos! It was very easy to install & didn't take long for me to figure out how to use it. It is also Energy Star rated, which is great!