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This weekend I decided to move some stuff around in my home office, including relocating my Epson Workforce 600 to another wall behind my desk and way from my PC. This move meant that I needed buy a WiFi adapter to avoid running a printer cable across the floor. After checking Best Buy and a few other places locally, the cheapest price I found was around $70 for a Linksys or D-Link model, which was way too much in my opinion. A brief search on NewEgg.com lead me to this Rosewill unit. I ordered it Saturday and received it this morning, paying about $25 including shipping. Installing it took about 2 minutes, just load the drivers from the CD and plug it in. Great signal strength and it worked right away with the Epson. What more can I ask for?

Grab It: Rosewill USB WiFi Adapter

I finally had a chance to play with the WorkForce 600 today. So far, I am liking the device quite a bit. I was surprised how solid it felt. Epson obviously spent sometime with the industrial design and it paid off. Set up was a simple, I just went with the USB connection for now. I am planning to use the WiFi connectivity for my laptop but I have not gotten around to that just yet. So all I had to do was install the drivers and plug the the printer in.

The only tests I have been able to run today are printing a test page and then I scanned it into a PDF file. The both went quickly and smoothly, just like you would expect. The page was dry to the touch right off the tray which was a nice change from my old HP inkjet. The OCR software seemed good too, but I did notice the page scanned in at a slight angle but I am not sure if that was my fault or not. I have not had a chance to use any of the other features like the memory card reader, editing from the display or photo printing. Once I get a free minute or two to play some more, I update the post. Looks like the price changed again, so be sure to keep an eye on it.

Grab It: Epson WorkForce 600 Wireless All-in-One Printer

My trusty HP All-In-One died last week. Normally it is quite frustrating to have a peripheral go bad, but I was not too upset since it gave me a great reason to upgrade to the new Epson WorkForce 600. Amazon delivered it today. I have not had a chance to set it up yet, but here are a few unboxing photos to get the juices going. Look for a full review in the next few days. The best part is the over $40 price drop since launch.

Grab It: Epson WorkForce 600 Wireless All-in-One Printer

If you have been holding off on grabbing the new Epson Workforce 600 we reviewed last month, now is great time to make your move. Best Buy has it on sale for a wicked low 159.99. Ends Saturday.

The price of quality laser printers are dropping in price like Valerie Bertinelli waistline on Nutri-System. Yesterday I saw a solid HP unit at Staples for just $250 bucks. I nearly bought it until I started pricing toner. It was ridiculous. For the 4 cartridges I would have needed I would have spent another $600. Suddenly that $250 printer wasn’t so cheap.

The next day while I was looking around the interwebs I came across the new WorkForce 600 wireless printer by Epson. It is definitely worthy of addition to our office. Not only does it work as photo printer, copier, fax and scanner but it is absolutely loaded with features. The WorkForce 600 has Wi-Fi and Ethernet networking compatibility, a built in memory card reader, a 2.5″ LCD screen to preview photos and includes an auto document feeder. Oh yeah, it can print up 38 a pages per minute.

Epson claims the WorkForce 600 prints twice as fast as the nearest competitor and with laser quality. We look forward to our unit arriving to test these claims. Color laser printers certainly have there uses in place that print in high volumes, but most small business or home offices don’t print in enough quantity to ever realize the cost savings. If you fall in this category, the WorkForce 600 could be the perfect choice.

Grab It: Epson WorkForce 600 Wireless All-in-One Printer (Black) (C11CA18201)

Sometimes we might shoot 1,000 or more photos on a job site. And since many times this is our only opportunity to see a scene in person, we have to make sure our photos capture everything possible. The Epson P-5000 Storage drive solves two problems for us. Archival and viewing. The P-5000 acts as a photo dump transfering data at the rate of 1 GB/5min plus it is the best viewing screen we have found. In addition to photos, the P-5000 can play music and video too. No, its not cheap, but it makes our job simpler and keeps us more productive and we find that to be of great value.

If your camera uses a storage card other than CF or SD you will want to pick up this adapter.

Grab It: Epson P-5000 80GB Multimedia Storage Drive, Viewer, and Audio-Video Player