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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program This is a great little printer set up was a breeze, and I can automatically print to it using Google Print from anywhere on my iPad (I've even sent things to it from school to home). I love the quality of the prints that come out (to me, comparable to the Epson Artisan 1430 Wireless Wide-format Color Inkjet Printer (C11CB53201) that I also reviewed for Vine. It's also a really nice scanner. However, I have a few complaints.
First, the size. This thing is HUGE, so really look at the dimensions before assuming it will fit on your shelf. Mine almost falls off of the top of a standard el-cheap-o half size Target bookcase. Something to think of if you don't necessarily need to print 13X19 prints.
Second, the scans aren't accessible through wifi, which would be one reason I'd pass this one by if it wasn't a Vine product. Once you scan something, you have to choose to save it to USB, then put in a USB stick, then eject it and put the USB stick in your computer if you are hooked up by wifi like I am. I would REALLY prefer if this could just sync with Dropbox or another DropDav server, or even allow you to email the file to yourself. I scan a lot of documents and this USB step means that there are 3 whole steps between a scan and my iPad (scan--> USB, USB--> MacBook, MacBook --> Dropbox). I don't like that fact, but I don't know of any other printers that do it differently outside of our departmental printers at the university.
Third, there is a weird scaling issue I haven't been able to fix, even after several consultations of the online help forums and set-up manual. Whenever I print mailing labels (such as for returns to Amazon!), this printer scales them down to about 40% of their size, making them kind of unusable for mailing. For some reason, this occurs whether it's a label directly from the USPS site or from Amazon, so I'm not really sure what's going on. I've checked the settings, and it's supposed to "stretch to page," but doesn't. So, I print them off on my trusty, creaky HP all-in-one black and white printer and they come out just fine. Again, this could be user error, but it's an odd thing to be dealing with and I haven't heard back from the company yet.
In all, the quality of prints is nice from this, and it's really a joy to be able to scan and copy with both a document feeder and a full scanner bed to accommodate books and texts. While I REALLY wish it could send scans directly to the internet or to a computer through the wifi, it's not make-or-break if you aren't doing a whole lot of scanning. If you have the space and want to occasionally be able to print out large posters, this could be the printer for you.
UPDATE: After getting on the phone with the customer service team and finding someone who knew what they were doing (unfortunately, three tries later), I got all of the problems solved with scaling AND got the scanner to scan directly to my computer. Few things: A) If you have Mac OS 10.7 (Lion), you need to delete the included driver already on your hard drive (Hard Drive --> Libraries --> Printer --> delete Epson folder, then HD --> Cache --> delete epsonwf7510.gw file). Then clear your trash, restart, download the device driver specific to Lion from the Epson website, install, and then install the printer through System Preferences --. Printer --> plus sign --> add Epson WF7510. This sounds like a lot of work, but once it's completed it only takes 5-8 minutes. Then, if you open the printer from System Preferences or leave the icon in the dock, you have to scan from the application in order to scan directly onto your computer. But it does indeed scan directly onto your computer or whatever other destination you want, even scanning directly into Adobe. So I'm improving my rating from 4 stars to 5. Hope that helps some people if you have any questions, put it in the comments and I'll try my best to help.
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