Epson Announced Two New A3 Color Printers

Epson has announced two new A3 multifunction color printers, the WorkForce Pro WF-C879R and WF-C878R, strengthening its lineup of business printing offerings to meet the needs of the commercial office market. Powered by Epson’s PrecisionCore Heat-Free Technology, the new WF-C879R and WF-C878R offer the lowest total printing costs in their class and the lowest power consumption in their class, delivering speed, accuracy and cost-effective printing, and energy conservation for productivity-demanding and cost-conscious work groups.

Epson today also introduced its free cloud-based printer fleet management tool, Epson Remote Services, providing partners with extensive insight into their Epson printing devices to help reduce their support cost by improving service support and operational efficiency. Its scheduled print usage reporting via emails can help partners simplify click-charge based customer billing. Engineered for dealers managing multiple printer fleets, Epson Remote Services makes it easy to remotely manage Epson printers and access customer printer details, including device status, consumables status, print usage, and more. With advanced alerts and email notifications for diagnosis of issues, preventative maintenance and device status, dealers can control maintenance functions offsite and track device status via the intuitive web interface.

Providing low intervention and less hassle, the WF-C879R and WF-C878R with Replaceable Ink Pack Systems let users print up to 86,000 ISO pages (black) and up to 50,000 ISO pages (color). The WF-C879R offers fast output speeds of 26/25 ISO ppm (black/color) and rapid scan speeds of up to 100 images per minute (duplex), while the WF-C878R prints at speeds of 25/24 ISO ppm (black/color) and scans up to 45 images per minute (duplex). Both printers offer versatile media handling capabilities including auto duplexing and auto media size detection, and provide seamless integration with web-based enterprise applications such as Kofax Equitrac, Kofax eCopy, PaperCut, and others.