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Epson Expression Home XP-410 Small-in-One

M. David Stone
 & M. David Stone Contributing Editor

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Epson Expression Home XP-410 Small-in-One - All-in-One Printers
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The Bottom Line

The Epson Expression Home XP-410 Small-in-One delivers better-quality text than expected for a home printer, along with more typical graphics and photo quality.

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Pros & Cons

    • Small size.
    • Low price.
    • High-quality text.
    • Wi-Fi.
    • Wi-Fi Direct.
    • Prints from and scans to memory cards.
    • No Ethernet.
    • No Fax.
    • No automatic document feeder.
    • No duplexer.

Epson Expression Home XP-410 Small-in-One Specs

Color or Monochrome 1-pass color
Connection Type USB
Connection Type Wireless
Cost Per Page (Color) 17.3 cents
LCD Preview Screen
Maximum Scan Area 8.5" x 11"
Maximum Standard Paper Size Legal
Number of Ink Colors 4
Scanner Optical Resolution 1200 pixels per inch
Scanner Type Flatbed
Standalone Copier and Fax Copier
Type All-in-one
All Specs

As its name makes clear, the Epson Expression Home XP-410 Small-in-One($362.20 at Amazon) is meant as a home printer. However it doesn't fit all that neatly into the category. In particular, it delivers much better looking text than many home printers. That's enough to make it at least as attractive for light-duty home-office use as for typical home use.

That doesn't mean the XP-410 is otherwise focused on office needs. Unlike the Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J430w, for example, it lacks such office-centric features as an automatic document feeder (ADF) and fax capability. It also lacks an Ethernet port. However, it includes Wi-Fi as a connection choice, which makes it easy to share in the dual role of home and home-office printer.

Basics

In addition to printing from and scanning to a PC, as well as copying, the XP-410 can both print from and scan to a memory card, using JPG files for printing and a choice of JPG or PDF files for scanning. It will also let you preview the JPG files before printing, using its 2.5-inch color LCD.

Mobile printing features include printing through the cloud. Without Ethernet, however, the only way to connect to the Internet is through a Wi-Fi access point on your network, which rules out cloud printing if you connect the printer by USB cable. On the plus side, the printer also offers Wi-Fi Direct, which lets you connect directly by Wi-Fi to print from or scan to a smartphone or tablet.

As you might expect from the price, paper handling is not a strong point. The XP-410 offers only a 100-sheet input tray, with no duplexer and no upgrades available. Even by home and home-office standards, that definitively limits it to light-duty use.

Setup, Speed, and Output Quality

For my tests, I connected the XP-410 by USB cable to a computer running Windows Vista. Setting it up was standard fare.

Epson Expression Home XP-410 Small-in-One

The printer's speed on our business applications suite is best described as not bad for the price. I timed it (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing) at 2.6 pages per minute (ppm). That's slower than the MFC-J430w, at 4.3 ppm, or the HP Officejet 4620 e-All-in-One, at 3.4 ppm, but it's still a respectable speed compared with most similarly priced MFPs. Photo speed is also on the slow side, averaging 2 minutes 14 seconds for a 4 by 6.

Output Quality

The XP-410's text quality is better than expected for a printer meant for home use. In fact, it's near the high end of range for an inkjet MFP. That doesn't make it good enough for output that has to look fully professional, like a resume, but it's certainly good enough for most business and personal needs.

Graphics quality in my tests was a half-step below par, but still within the tight range where most inkjet MFPs fall. As with the text output, it's also easily good enough for most personal or business needs. Depending on how much of a perfectionist you are, however, you may or may not consider it good enough for PowerPoint handouts or the like.

Color photos were at the low end of what you would expect from drugstore prints. That makes them true photo quality by definition, but more appropriate for snapshots than for photos meant for, say, framing. Black and white photos weren't at the same level, however. One of our standard test photos showed obvious tints, with different color tints at different shades of gray. If you print photos strictly in color, however, like most home users, that obviously won't be an issue.

This is clearly the wrong printer to get if you want to print photos in black and white. But if you're looking for an MFP for home use, light-duty home-office use, or dual use in home and home office, it offers a lot to like otherwise. Its combination of text, graphics, and photo quality, with extras like Wi-Fi Direct for easy printing from smartphones and tablets, will be hard to match elsewhere at this price. And if snapshot quality is all you need for photos, the Epson Expression Home XP-410 Small-in-One can easily be the right choice.

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Epson Expression Home XP-410 Small-in-One - All-in-One Printers

Epson Expression Home XP-410 Small-in-One Review

3.0 Average

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About Our Expert

M. David Stone

M. David Stone

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My Experience

Most of my current work for PCMag is about printers and projectors, but I've covered a wide variety of other subjects—in more than 4,000 pieces, over more than 40 years—including both computer-related areas and others ranging from ape language experiments, to politics, to cosmology, to space colonies. I've written for PCMag.com from its start, and for PC Magazine before that, as a Contributor, then a Contributing Editor, then as the Lead Analyst for Printers, Scanners, and Projectors, and now, after a short hiatus, back to Contributing Editor.

I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who worked on every "Project Printer" blockbuster PCMag ever produced, often writing 15 or more reviews for the year's big printer blowout. (I snuck in a single review one year when I was writing a book, strictly so I could keep that claim alive.)

I've always worked for PCMag as a freelancer, which has freed me to take time away to write nine books, be a major contributor to four others, and write for other publications, including Wired, Computer Shopper, Projector Central, and Science Digest, where I was Computers Editor. I also wrote a computer column at one point for The Newark Star-Ledger.

Although I started my career primarily as a science (mostly physics and astronomy) and science-fiction writer (published in Analog), my non-computer-related work runs the gamut from the Project Data Book for NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (written for GE's Astro-Space Division) to the script for a video overview of a top company in the gaming industry (that would be gambling, not video games). My books include The Underground Guide to Color Printers (Addison-Wesley), Troubleshooting Your PC (Microsoft Press), and Faster, Smarter Digital Photography (Microsoft Press).

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Elsewhere in my house is an assortment of older and newer PCs. The older ones are dedicated to specific tasks, like the one I've been using to slowly digitize all the paper stored in my filing cabinets, while the newer ones are testbeds for printer and projector reviews.

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