Epson WorkForce 610 All-in-One Printer Review

The Controls

As shown in Figure 7, the front panel of this Epson WorkForce holds all the controls. The panel itself has an adjustment lever in the back so that the panel can be adjusted and easily seen whether sitting or standing. Although we longed for a slightly larger screen, the 2.5-inch color LCD screen is bright and clear.

Figure 7: The control panel.

The left side of the panel has the on-off switch at the top and a Home area below that. The home area contains four choices: Copy, Print Photos, Scan, and Fax. You toggle between these choices by pressing the indentation in the middle of the Home button. As shown in Figure 8, your choice displays as a lighted icon and is also shown on the screen

Figure 8: The Home choices.

Pressing the OK button in the middle of the main control panel brings up a screen for that choice. Figure 8 also shows the choices for the copy function. The navigational keys are very intuitive. There is a useful back button and a help button.

To the right of Home is a button for changing the way photos are displayed on the screen and for cropping photos. To the left of the panel are several slots that accommodate different sizes of memory cards, as shown in Figure 9. This Epson supports CompactFlash, Microdrive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, MagicGate Memory Stick, MagicGate Memory Stick Duo3, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Pro Duo, Secure Digital , SDHC, mini SD, mini SDHC, micro SD, micro SDHC, MultiMediaCard , xD-Picture Card, xD-Pict
ure Card Type-M, and xD-Picture Card Type-H.

Figure 9: The memory card slots.

Although the WorkForce 610 is not marketed as a photo printer, the functionality to handle photos is built into the printer quite nicely.

In Figure 9, under the memory card slots, you will also see a PictBridge port that is also a USB port. So you can print directly from your PictBridge enabeled camera or a USB stick. The printer also allows users to save JPEG or PDF files directly to a memory card or USB drive, which can be a real time saver.