Epson EcoTank L6490 all-in-one printer, colour, A4, fax, duplex, LAN

The L6490 is a full 4-in-1 device: on top of printing, scanning and copying, it has fax. That matters for offices whose clients, partners or authorities still send and expect documents by fax, for example in healthcare, legal work or logistics. One device replaces a separate fax machine and frees up desk space.

According to the manufacturer, the printer uses pigment ink. Pigment particles stay on the surface of the paper, so text on plain paper is sharp with clean edges, and prints withstand moisture and rubbing better than with dye-based ink. That counts for documents that get archived, signed or passed from hand to hand.

Automatic duplex prints on both sides of A4 plain paper, so nobody has to turn sheets over by hand. Reports, contracts and meeting packs come out thinner and use less paper. You can send a two-sided job straight from the computer and get on with your work while the printer handles the rest.

Print speed under ISO/IEC 24734 is 17 ipm in mono and 9.5 ipm in colour. The manufacturer lists a standard paper capacity of 250 sheets, and the output tray holds 30 sheets. Print resolution at normal quality reaches 4800 × 1200 dpi, and the CIS scanner has an optical resolution of 1200 × 2400 dpi, suitable for both documents and fax.

Ethernet puts the printer on the office LAN, Wi-Fi lets laptops print without a cable, and Wi-Fi Direct links a phone to the printer even without a router. USB covers a direct link to a single computer. It measures 346 × 375 × 347 mm, so it fits on an ordinary desk. The housing is black and white, the printing is in colour, and there are four ink tanks.

Small offices, clinics, law firms or logistics companies where fax is still in use; accounting teams that need durable pigment-ink documents and automatic duplex; and teams that want one compact network device for printing, scanning, copying and faxing. Where desk space is tight, it stands in for a printer, a scanner and a fax machine at once.