Epson WorkForce Pro WF-C529RDW colour inkjet printer, A4, duplex, Wi-Fi

Print speed is 24 ipm in both mono and colour, measured to the ISO/IEC 24734 standard. That standard uses typical office documents rather than blank pages, so the figure compares fairly with other printers. Just as important, colour output is no slower: a report full of charts comes out as fast as a plain letter. Two-sided printing saves paper and makes thick documents slimmer.

The manufacturer highlights high ink yields of up to 50,000 pages in black and 20,000 pages in colour. For an office, that means changing ink is not a weekly chore and the printer does not stop in the middle of a busy day. The real page count depends on coverage, as full-page colour images use more ink than text. The supplier data does not name the ink product codes the printer uses.

The printer has a Gigabit Ethernet interface (1000Base-T, 100Base-TX and 10Base-T), IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN and Wi-Fi Direct. Connected by cable or Wi-Fi, it serves every computer in the office, while Wi-Fi Direct lets a phone or laptop connect to the printer directly, without a router. A Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface covers a single computer, and the device also has a USB 2.0-A port.

The input tray holds 250 sheets and the output tray 150, so you are not constantly topping up paper during a big job. Supported media include plain paper, recycled paper, colour paper, letterhead and glossy photo paper. The maximum print size is A4. The printer weighs 19.30 kg, so it needs a sturdy base such as a dedicated printer stand or a solid shelf.

Print resolution is 4800 × 1200 dpi: 4800 ink dots per inch horizontally and 1200 vertically. The dense dot grid gives crisp letters even in small type, clean lines in tables and smooth transitions in charts. Official letters, quotes and presentation material look neat even when they are read up close, which matters for documents that go out to clients.

The supplier list covers Windows XP SP2 or later up to Windows 10, including Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8.1 and Vista, as well as Windows Server 2003 R2 through Windows Server 2016. On the Mac side, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later is supported, with 10.12 as the newest version listed. Windows 11 and newer macOS versions do not appear on the supplier list.

Small and mid-sized offices that print plenty of colour documents every day and share one printer over the network; accounting and sales teams who value speed and two-sided printing; schools and training centres that go through a lot of worksheets; and anyone who wants a printer with a large ink supply that does not need constant ink changes.