The Epson L520 is a versatile inkjet workhouse with a quality and easy to use scanner on top. Both print and scan speeds are good enough, and so is the quality of the prints.

It also provides sufficient ink capacity for moderate printing. If the printer is used occasionally, there is a good chance that it takes a full year or even more for the inks to need to be replaced with a new set.

Features and Highlights

Running Cost

The L520 MFP is designed mostly for office use, but its ink system that relies on cartridges might cause you to spend a pretty penny on ink because ink cartridges are typically more expensive than ink bottles, which are used to refill tank-based printers.

Printing in draft mode as often as possible can reduce the printing cost. Another solution that might work better is replacing the original ink cartridges with ones that are developed by other companies.

Paper Capacity

A shared printer in an office is usually used much more often than a personal printer at home. There are also times when a print job includes dozens of pages. Therefore, an office printer like the L520 is equipped with an ample paper capacity to meet the printing needs so that users do not have to babysit a print job all the time. If you need more capacity, however, there are some models out there that offer higher capacity.

Performance

The Epson L520 is quick to print and scan pages, which makes the MFP worth the price. Armed with an automatic sheet feeder, the scanner can process multiple pages consecutively without user intervention, which gives you some time to work on another task until the scanner finishes the scan job.

If you are in a rush, you can enable the draft mode to print faster. This mode is also recommended to print internal documents to save on ink. Although its print quality is not as good as that of the normal one, it is clear enough to read the text.

Print Quality

While the L520 may not be the best printer Epson has made so far, it is a relatively good one not just in terms of print speed but also print quality.

Printing at the highest quality is not recommended, however, due to the fact that the unit uses the disposable cartridges. These have prices so high that many users prefer to buy third-party inks as soon as the bundled ink cartridges are empty. Even though the prices of these alternative inks are cheaper, their print quality is almost if not as good as that of the original inks.

Epson L520 Driver Free Download

No matter how good a printer is, it still needs a software driver when connected to a computer. The software acts as a middleman that facilitates the interaction between the two machines.

The software driver supports Windows operating system. Not only is it easy to install but also small in size. You can click the link below to download Epson L520 Driver for Windows: