Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4540 Wireless All-in-One Color Inkjet Printer, Copier, Scanner, Fax, iOS/Tablet/Smartphone/AirPrint Compatible (C11CB32201)

by Epson

• World's fastest auto two-sided printing
• 50% lower printing cost than color laser
• Automatic two-sided copy/scan/fax
• 580-sheet paper capacity
• Up to 20,000 page duty cycle

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18.2 x 16.5 x 16.6 inches ; 36.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 48.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• 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: B005IIR8H2
• Item model number: C11CB32201
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (136 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 30, 2010

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

WorkForce Pro WP-4540 All-in-One

Print | Copy | Scan | Fax | Ethernet | Wi-Fi

WHY BUY?

Enlarge

Engineered for Productivity

The ultimate wireless all-in-one, the WorkForce Pro WP-4540 is twice the speed of inkjets and gives you the World’s Fastest auto two-sided print speeds, automatic two-sided copying/scanning/faxing, and professional quality output at half the cost of color laser printing. Boasting two-sided print speeds of 9.2 ISO ppm (black) and 7.1 ISO ppm (color), this ultra efficient all-in-one features a 580-sheet paper capacity and convenient 5.8" touch panel. Use the 30-page two-sided Auto Document Feeder to quickly copy, scan or fax one- or two-sided documents. Built-in wireless networking makes it easy to share your all-in-one with others. And a 20,000-page duty cycle gives you added peace of mind. Best of all, the WP-4540 offers low hassle, extra large, easy to install cartridges, with a high yield of 2400 pages Black and 1200 pages color.

---

WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING:

“In use, this printer is a gem of a player. It is just about the fastest inkjet printer to have come through here, and about as fast or faster than the deskside laser printers in use.”

“The street price makes the Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4540 a no-brainer to insert into your business.”
~John Obeto, AbsolutelyWindows, (January 16, 2012)

"The Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4540 offers immense paper capacity - nearly 600 sheets can fit in its paper trays at once. Another great value for frequent printers is the oversize inkjet cartridges that promise 2,400 black and 1,200 color pages (and which are reasonably priced). Pages take about seven seconds per page at normal quality, which is very good; and the printer is under $300. All good reasons for it to make the Best Buy list.". ~About.com, (December 2011)

"The duplex printing speed, at 9.2ppm in black and 7.1ppm in color, is the 'world's fastest auto two-sided print speed' as Epson claims"

"A new standard feature for the Epson models is the Epson Connect, a mobile printing solution which includes mobile app printing, email printing, Apple AirPrint and Google Cloud print. Print photos, webpages, and documents remotely and wirelessly."

"The ink jet market is evolving fast, and Epson is staying on top of this by pushing new features (i.e. mobile printing) and selling to more businesses outside of the SOHO market. In addition to this, these machines have very good paper-handling capacity (especially the WP-4540) and per-page operating costs. We give the WorkForce Pro WP-4530 and Pro WP-4540 our Editor’s Choice Award."

~Better Buys for Business, (October 2011)

---

FUNCTIONS

For heavy business printing, extra large cartridges available

50% lower printing cost than color laser

World's Fastest automatic two-sided printing

580-sheet paper capacity with two trays for added convenience

80-sheet rear-feed tray for envelopes, labels & card stock

5.8" smart touch panel - quickly navigate through tasks

---

ECONOMICAL

50% Lower printing costs¹ High-quality output at a lower cost than lasers

Extra large ink cartridges available Print up to 4 reams of paper with one set of cartridges³

Save 50% of your paper supply Built-in, automatic two-sided printing, copying, scanning and faxing

---

SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE

World's Fastest business ink jet printer Faster than any other competitive ink jet printer

Mobile device printing Printing wirelessly from your smartphone, iPad, tablet or computer

Reload paper less often 580-sheet paper capacity, with 80-sheet rear-feed tray for envelopes and labels

---

What is ISO ppm?

ISO ppm is based on the international standard for measuring print speed. Black and color print speeds are determined in default, single-side mode, in accordance with ISO/IEC 24734. Black and color two-sided print speeds are determined in two-sided mode, in accordance with ISO/IEC 24734. Actual print times will vary based on system configuration, software, and page complexity.

See www.epson.com/printspeed for details, including complete ISO reports.

---

ADDITIONAL FEATURES 5.8” smart touch panel — quickly and easily navigate through critical tasks Remarkable durability — 20,000-page duty cycle for added peace of mind Built-in networking — easily connect and share with others in your workgroup via wireless or wired networking Professional quality color — print attention-getting marketing materials or presentations that exceed your clients expectations Do more — 30-page two-sided Auto Document Feeder to quickly copy, scan or fax stacks of one- or two-sided originals Smudge, fade and water resistant documents — ink won't run or smear PC-Fax — fax documents directly from your computer High-speed faxing in black and color — as fast as 3 sec per page; speed dial storage up to 60 numbers; fax memory up to 180 pages Print and share from anywhere — get instant wireless printing from iPads, tablets, smartphones and more; supports Email Print and Epson iPrint app, plus Apple AirPrint and Google Cloud Print Packaging Specifications (W x D x H) — Dimensions: Printing 18.1" x 25.7" x 18.2", Storage 18.1" x 16.5" x 16.5" and Weight 36.4 lb

---

WHAT'S IN THE BOX WorkForce Pro WP-4540 All-in-One Instruction booklets CD-ROM with drivers Free sample paper pack Power cord Telephone cord 4 DURABrite Ultra Ink Cartridges: Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow Included cartridges print about 1000 black and 900 color pages

EPSON INK SUPPLIES 676XL DURABrite Ultra — XL Black ink cartridge (T676XL120) 676XL DURABrite Ultra — XL Cyan ink cartridge (T676XL220) 676XL DURABrite Ultra — XL Magenta ink cartridge (T676XL320) 676XL DURABrite Ultra — XL Yellow ink cartridge (T676XL420)

---

ECO FEATURES

Uses up to 70% less power than laser printers Save up to 50% of your paper supply with automatic, two-sided printing ENERGY STAR qualified Designed to be recycled Epson America, Inc. is a SmartWay Transport partner

Product Description

Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4540 Color Inkjet Wireless All-In-One with Fax and 580 Sheet Paper Capacity (C11CB32201)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

94 of 99 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Designed for a small office, but works great in my home September 24, 2011

By Terry TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)

The Epson WorkForce Pro WP-4540 is a fairly large, square-footprint, wireless, all-in-one inkjet printer designed to meet the demands of a small office. Notably, it has two paper trays for less down time replenishing paper and large capacity ink cartridges. It is easy to set up as a wireless network printer so that all the computers in the network can print to it. The buttons on the front and the large, lcd panel make it easy for anyone to use without having even read the user manual.

I am using it as a wireless, home printer. There are multiple computers and users in my home - 7+ desktops and laptops - as well as an iPad. We can all print to this printer and have had no problems at all

First thing you will notice is that the box is BIG! It's also relatively heavy and because of the bulky size (it is well padded with packing styrofoam), you may need two people to pick it up and get it out of the box. The Amazon product page lists it as 22 pounds, but this is a mistake. The printer weighs 36.5 pounds without paper. It measures 18.1"W x 16.5"D x16.5"H. It is pretty much the same size and shape as a small, cube-shaped dorm refrigerator. And that is just the footprint size. You will need additional space around the front and the back of the printer to access paper trays and clear paper jams. I have it set up on one of my nightstands and it essentially covers the entire top.

There is an excellent START HERE document included, besides the users manual, which makes unpacking, assembling, and installing this printer a breeze. You will need a computer nearby and it is recommended that you have a usb printer cable (not included), even if you will be setting it up as a wireless printer.... If you will be using it wirelessly, you will need to know your wireless router's SSID and your security password, if you have one. If your wireless router is not set to broadcast, it is easy to enter it manually.

Set-up and installation of software takes about 45 minutes. You will also need to install the software on all the computers that will be printing to this printer, so it will take a little time if you have multiple computers on your network.

Epson claims the large capacity ink cartridges make your printing costs about half those of a color, all-in-one laser printer priced at $699 or less. I haven't had it long enough to tell, but the cartridges seem to be reasonably priced at about $25/ea for the color cartridges (good for ~1200 pages) and the black is less than $40 (good for ~2400 pages). They are individual carts so you only replace what is necessary. Smaller capacity cartridges are included that should print about 1000 b/w pages and 900 color pages.

Epson also claims it prints faster than other inkjet all-in-ones priced at $399 or less. I don't have a lot to compare that to, but it does seem to print very quickly.

How does it print? Very well indeed! Although it seems a little noisier than my Epson Workforce 840, it is certainly acceptable. Text is crisp and clear and the ink is dry almost instantly. The max resolution is 4800x1200dpi optimized. Colors are bright, but much more dazzling when using premium quality paper.

When printing to photo paper the result is quite nice, but not photo lab quality. On plain, cheap copy paper, color prints are underwhelming, although that is the case with most ink jet printers. I would say this printer is best for high volume, text- based documents that have color components and the occasional photo printing for personal use. If you plan to print a lot of photos on photo paper, there are better choices.

As an all-in-one, this printer scans, faxes, copies, and is capable of double-sided printing. I cannot fax because I don't have a land line in my home. It scans at 1200x2400dpi hardware and 9600x9600dpi interpolated, and the resulting images are excellent. The scan utility works well and is pretty easy to use. You can even scan directly to an email or a .pdf. There is an automatic document feeder that makes scanning or copying a stack of pages much easier and quicker.

The copier allows you to reduce and enlarge from 25% to 400%. The touch screen on the front of the printer lets you quickly adjust these settings for whatever job you are currently working on. There is also convenient usb port on the front of the printer to allow you to easily print from a flash drive or a portable hard drive or even a camera.

A couple of surprising and exceptional features are AirPrint and Epson Connect. Airprint lets you print wirelessly from your iPad! You will need to install some additional software but that's it. My iPad picked up this printer instantly and printed a page perfectly. There are only a few printers that feature AirPrint currently and I'm very excited this is one of them.

Epson Connect actually assigns your printer an email address and will print documents and pictures sent to it. This is cool. Your printer is available to you wherever you are. I had my son email some pics of my granddaughter to the printer and it received them and printed them out without me having to even turn on my computer! You can log into Epson Connect and set up your preferences, including an approved sender list, as well as change your printer's email address to an easily remembered one. An approved sender list is a good idea because I can envision my printer's email ending up on some mailing lists and having all sorts of spam print out. You could run through a lot of ink that way.

I am greatly impressed with all the capabilities of this printer and the ease of use. I think it really shines as a small office workhorse or a home printer where there are several users. Read more ›

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Seems to be going downhill fast November 1, 2012

By Shawn

Amazon Verified Purchase

Over the last 6 or so months I have bought 5 of these printers. One for the VP's office one for the CEO's office.. CEO's grandaughter.. CEO's home Study. And Receptionist. These are very low workload users and only print about 30 pages a week.

Immediately on buying the first two from Office Depot one right out of the box was DOA. BAD SIGN.

Now half a year later I have already had to call Epson and had 3 warranty replacements shipped out for various ones.. The VP's started banding very badly and after about 20 head cleanings it only marginally improved.. The CEO only uses the one in his study once a week. Apparently that was too long to let it sit and the printer would not print at all then. The ink must of clogged the heads.. Endless head cleanings and new cartridges produced little on the screen.

I just got a replacement for the VP's one yesterday. I unpacked and installed it.. It comes with 4 new cartridges as the instructions say you must return your old cartridges with the printer.. Well after setting up the replacement and installing the new cartridges the printer takes about 10 minutes to "prime" them.. Well during that procedure it told me I had to replace the Cyan , Magenta, and Yellow because they were bad. These were brand new sealed in the box cartridges I had just received. So I went and got some extras we had and installed them.. They worked in the replacement printer but after a few test prints the pages are banding on this printer as well.

I am currently staring at ANOTHER WP-4540 on the floor that I have to call Epson today and get a replacement..... These calls usually take about an hour while they tell you to go through numerous head cleanings and driver reinstalls that even though you already might have done them they have to go through them again.

Very disappointed in these printers... I mean the warranty is good and they will ship you another one, But it is a refurb and yeah.. you may have the patience for this one at home. I do not anymore. Was not even able to handle simple workloads of low page count . Colors are not true. Reliability is horrible. Read more ›

70 of 78 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars The Treacherous Three! 3 New Epson Printers Compared! Which One's Right For You? A Publisher's Critical Review. September 27, 2011

By Andre Lawrence TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)

Length: 0:47 Mins

The Treacherous Three! 3 New Epson Printers Compared! Which One's Right For You? A Publisher's Critical Review.

* A Look At the Printers/ Testing
** The strengths and weaknesses of each
*** Where can I get ink at a (relatively) reasonable price?

* We own a publishing company here in Miami. And, for roughly about 7 years we've owned only Epson. At the time, we moved away from HP because we thought that the Epson printers were improving enough to match HP quality and to beat them economically.

The traditional weakness of Epson had been its photo imaging. We made the decision to go with Epson when they introduced their "Durabright Ink" line of printers and the promise of film-like quality reproduction. While not bad, i.e. passable, it was never quite up to the mark set by the HP line.

That was then.

This year, we're excited by what we've been seeing with Epson. Almost universally with the printers we have, the line of All-In-One printers matches quality and most definitely beats HP in price.

Here are 3 to consider, if you're a small business ("prosumer"), an education setting and up.

* Epson WorkForce 840 Color Ink Jet Wireless All-in-One with Fax (C11CA97201)
* Workforce WP 4540 All-In-One
* Epson Artisan 837 Color Inkjet Wireless All-In-One with Fax (C11CB20201)

(I wouldn't recommend the first two for personal use as Epson has some lower priced models, "The Stylus" series, that will suit your need for about half the price of any of these.... The third, coincidentally, "The Artisan" printer, could very well be used in a home of discriminating digital artists.)

**
----- Workforce 840-----
WF 840 is, at about 5 months, still a "new" model. It is a printer, copier, scanner, fax with a wireless "WiFi" connection for both the Windows and Mac OS's. Since it was released in the Spring, there have been a slew of app's, the "Epson iPrint" in particular, that will allow you to print either documents or jpg images from your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or any configuration of the Android 2.3 OS.)

The spec's, Epson's statement and my findings in .

+ Uses standard Durabright ink.
+ Can connect through several ports including a USB or through a wireless internet connection.
+ Print resolution is at (an impressive) 5760 x 1440.
+ Scan at a max. resolution of 2400 dpi.
+ Print speed: single sided, 15/9.3 ppm for black/color.
+ Print: double sided, 7.4/5.4 ppm.
+ About $300, retail. $200-225 street price.

The 840 is supposed to be the prosumer printer in this line. It can comfortably hold a ream of paper in dual trays. It feels, by weight, to be about the average weight of a printer, about 12-15 lbs. Our first Epson, All-In-One, felt like a toy in comparison.

*I printed out a pdf of a 200-page book. The double-sided, long-edge, printing at 150 dpi came out exactly 12:15. By my calculations, that makes it a 8.2 ppm double-sided printing. And, it also means that it's better than 1 sheet more per minute than Epson states. And, the printing noise was barely noticeable.

If you need an All-In-One that has the basic the capacities of some of the more specialized printers, this model, WF 840, is a great consideration.

------ Workforce WP 4540------

The 4540, to be distinguished from the 840, is considerably larger AND heavier. It is designed for office use only. And, unless you have a VERY thriving business at home, the 840 may be the better choice for you. The 4540 has its purposes and it surrounds volumes of printing more than anything else.

The newest model, with double the printing capacity and faster printing speed, offers more in some areas and less in others for about $100 more.

Epson's Spec's

+ Print 16/ 11 ppm--black/color single page.
+ Print 9.2/7.1 ppm- double-sided.
+ Print resolution of 4800 x 1200
+ Scan @ 2400
+ Life cycle of the print cartridge- 2400 sheet (black) / 1200 sheets (color).
+ $400

Of the spec's that would be of interest to the office buyer, this is the high yield system. And, there are two (2) grades of ink-- standard and ultra. These high-yield cartridges are considerably different and there are (at the time of this review) no substitute or recyclable alternatives, yet.

I reprinted the same pdf book as I did on the 840 and found, with the exact printing options that the 4540 actually printed the book in 11:45 seconds (see video still). That's only :30 seconds faster than the 840 or 8.5 ppm.

The image (photo) quality from was acceptable, but not exceptional. But, the text quality was near or equal to a laser print.

One of the clients, my company is contracted to, uses Canon copiers. And, although, I like the Canons, an Epson like this is more economical. The comparable Canon runs through print cartridges every couple of weeks and at $100 a pop. Currently, these Epson cartridges are about $35 a piece.

----- Artisan 837------

The 837 is an All-In-One that is especially geared toward high-resolution photo printing. And, since it's an All-In-One, it is ideal for printing and graphic arts.

The spec's

+ Print, scanner, copier and Fax with wireless printing and multiple thumb drive printing capabilities.
+ Print speed 9.6/9.1 ppm black/ color, single-sided.
+ Print 4.9/4.7 ppm, 2-sided.
+ Scans at 4800 dpi.
+ Print resolution at 5760 x1440.
+ 6 separate "Claria" ink cartridges. Standard and Ultra ink resolutions.
+ Cartridge cycle 520 each (standard), 805 high-yield.

* One of the best qualities of this printer is the resolution. I printed out several photos on standard Kodak photo paper and only saw marginally better resolution than an All-In-One printout from 4 years ago. But, when I used some bonus Ultra-fine photo paper, I saw a print that clearly was indistinguishable from film negative. This is a must-have for anyone who needs high-quality printouts.

***
-----Ink------
It's no mystery that the least expensive purchase you'll make is on the printer, itself. The cost of paper followed by the cost of ink is where the real money is at. Much like razor manufacturers that essentially give away expensive razors only to charge a premium for the blades.

What I find to be the most economical is to recycle and to only printout things that must be printed out, i.e., contracts and legal documents that require a hand-signature. We're in the habit of just sending pdf's for most things.

However, here's where the best deal is on ink.

123Inkjet (dot) com
Amazon
DealNews (dot) com

So, to wrap it up.

*EPSON 840--A great general multi-purpose All-In-One. Prosumer, Small company printer. 5 stars.

*EPSON WP 4540--High-end, high capacity, All-In-One. Features not terribly impressive, but fast and with the new ink system, lower ink costs overall. 4 stars.

* EPSON ARTISAN 837. Specialized, arts-related printing system. 6-color, ink cartridge system. Ultra high resolution printing capabilities (on high-end photo paper). Prints photos at around 12 seconds. Multi-printing options available, including WiFi. 5 stars. Read more ›