Epson is a known brand for photo printers and high-end projectors. Epson is now seeking to increase its presence in the office printer segment. The T1100 is an A3 office printer targeting home and SOHO users. Unlike Epson’s famous photo printers, it does not provide high quality photo prints, rather it excels in delivering a cost-effective printing solution.
The T1100 has a big footprint, but it is quite compact for a A3 printer. Build quality is good, the height of the printer can be reduced by replacing the rear paper tray with a common front end cassette.
Overall Epson Stylus Office T1100 is a nice cost-effective A3 printer with good output, the only drawback is the missing Ethernet port.
The T1100 has a big footprint, but it is quite compact for a A3 printer. Build quality is good, the height of the printer can be reduced by replacing the rear paper tray with a common front end cassette.
On the connectivity front the printer features only a pictbridge option. While we can understand the omission of a card slot but the absence of an Ethernet port is surprising. To share access across a network, the printer needs to be connected to a print server.
The Stylus Office T1100 uses Epson’s 73HN and 103 ink cartridges, making it extremely cost effective. In our test T1100 produced 16 ppm in draft monochrome mode and 8.5 ppm in color draft mode. In normal quality mode it printed 13 ppm in monochrome and 4ppm in color. While printing A3 sizes, it produced 6 ppm in monochrome and around 4 ppm in color. The print quality remained good for documents while photos was average. There was noise present in photo output.
The biggest advantage of T1100 is its capability to scale documents directly to A4 size. Of course Microsoft Word can do the same but scaling directly without any user interference is great.
