The Epson C5290 is an affordable business-oriented printer with a maximum monthly duty cycle of 45,000 pages. It supports Wi-Fi and automatic duplex printing, offers high yield ink packs, has respectable speed, and provides expandable paper handling system.

In short, there are a lot to like from this color printer, except perhaps its physical size as it looks bigger than some competing printers.

Features and Highlights

The default paper capacity of the Epson C5290 is 330 sheets of plain papers, split between the 250-sheet front cassette and the 80-sheet rear slot. A single 500-sheet cassette unit is available as an optional upgrade to expand the default paper capacity to 830 sheets of papers, which is quite an enticing offer for midsize offices.

The Epson C5290 comes with an ink system called RIPS, which stands for Replaceable Ink Pack System. The purpose of this innovative system is to provide convenience in regards to the ink replacement. Buyers are provided with two types of ink packs. The first one is the standard pack which contains ink worth 3,000 pages in black or color, and the second option is the XL package which contains black ink worth 10,000 pages.

Being a printer for business use, the Epson C5290’s standard connectivity is more than just the USB 2.0 port. There is the Ethernet for wired network and there are the Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, and even NFC for wireless printing. With the Wifi-Direct, the printer can establish a peer-to-peer connection with up to four devices at a time.

The business printer is also supplemented with a set of security features, which include PIN Release to protect confidential documents so that they can only be printed out after the correct PIN is entered into the printer via the control panel, IP Address Filter to ensure that no one else can connect to the printer except for people who have been given authorization, and Panel Admin Mode to prevent unauthorized changes to the printer’s administrator settings.

The Document Capture Pro is an added convenience for scanning pages and managing the scan output. It can even put recognizable elements in scanned documents into separate folders, and it supports up to 30 scan profiles to execute multiple scan jobs with ease.

The Epson C5290 churns out 34 pages per minute. Its ISO print speed is up to 24 ipm for single-sided printing and 15 ipm for double-sided printing. The business printer can print that fast because it uses a PrecisionCore printhead armed with four ink chips and more ink nozzles to eject ink drops faster than non-Pro WorkForce printers.

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Buying the highest yield ink packs for the Epson C5290 will save money more than using the standard ones. The packs can help reduce the print cost per page to about 1.7 cents for a black page and 7.7 cents for a color page.

By using the highest yield ink packs, in addition to saving more money, maintaining the consumables will take less time than usual. You can click the link below to download Epson C5290 Driver for Windows: