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what's up guys Lew here and the reason for this video is to to tell you guys about something I recently bought now obviously this is not an unboxing video I've already unboxed this product I actually needed to use it really badly and on top of that it would have been really clunky to try and pull it out of the box on camera because it's so huge but it is of course a multifunction printer scanner copier blah blah blah and I know those are normally pretty boring I don't personally get all that excited about them but I've gone through so many of them now you know they're practically disposable the quality is normally so crap in terms of construction that I decided you know what it's time to get some some decent quality spend a few bucks on one that I can have for a little while and I'm hoping that this can be the one up until this point I'm pretty happy with it of course I've only used it for a couple days now I've done quite a bit of scanning probably more scanning than printing and it's been really convenient mostly because of the wireless functionality and how easy it was to set up etc so before talking any longer the name of the product is the Epson Artisan 837 and it has some pretty cool features including as I mentioned before wireless capability you can also print from mobile devices as you can see down here like you can print from your smartphone etc one thing that I do like is its ability to scan to PDF and also straight into email wirelessly to any system that you designate so let's talk a little bit about it here I'm gonna try and give you a quick rundown of the specs etc so first of all you've got this little drop-down door here now that's actually motorized so if you have it closed to keep you know the clean look the clean appearance and you're away from your printer and you send a print to it that's gonna drop down on its own you've also got of course your inserts for your different memory cards and a USB port if you want to print directly that way your paper tray is here one thing that this printer claims is to be the fastest high-quality 4x6 photo printer on the market it'll do a high-quality 4x6 photograph in 10 seconds supposedly so that's pretty cool and as you guys probably know with Epson you get a bunch of different ink cartridges now that can be a plus or a minus it means you've got more to replace but it also means that you only replace what you need in this case you can find these cartridges for a pretty affordable like 10 to 15 bucks etc closer to 10 if you're willing to order off Amazon or something like that but anyways probably the most interesting aspect if like don't have too much glare here is this screen on the front and it's a resistive touch screen and only a portion of it is an actual LCD but it's really intuitive and really easy to use because when you're within a menu for example only the options that are available to you will light up on the resistive portion of the touch panel meaning that you're not weeding through you know information or menus that you don't necessarily need something that I've been using quite a bit as I mentioned before is the scan functionality allowing you to scan too straight to a memory card to PC or to PDF say for example I select PDF you'll see two options there there's the USB connection or you also notice my computer there says my name but that's the name of my macbook pro I can select that and boom straight away I can start scanning documents whether they be individual or a bunch of pages together this will actually do up to 30 pages in the document feeder and this is probably my favorite feature I know it's superficial but a lot of these things are really ugly these multi functions and this one I don't think so because you got this nice sort of curve along top here and it sort of hides the document feeder if you look up top here you're probably wondering where the hell did a pages go right well you flip up this little tab here it pushes this other portion down and boom just like that innovation you can put 30 pages up here and you know make some wonderful PDFs of your different stuff so that was sort of the killer function for me that's what I mostly needed I needed to sign some documents and send them back over email and this baby allowed me to do that it's really built like a tank it's probably like twice as heavy as previous multi functions I've owned and I got it for Half Price there was a deal at Staples I think I paid 159 which was half of the MSRP if you can pick this up for the same price I did I'm gonna go ahead and recommend it even though this is just a first look I haven't used it for a long long time so take that with a grain of salt but up until this point I am happy you do some other stuff with it like make coloring books you know the kids are gonna love that one but the main thing here guys is that it's super easy to set up it integrates with Mac or PC it's all wireless and everybody in the house can use it if I had other computers set up with the driver installed they'd show up here as well you can send that document to any computer in the house let's see if I can give you a quick look around back you've obviously got a flatbed scanner as well built in and then your different ports and whatnot are over here so you got you know regular Ethernet if you choose to use it I think it has a fax built-in - yeah it does not that anyone uses that anymore and of course regular USB so anyway as you guys can tell it's hard to get excited about a multi-function but I have managed to get somewhat excited about my Epson Artisan 837 you know if anything goes wrong with it I'll let you guys know how I'll take back my recommendation but up until this point it's been fun to use and it feels like it's a solid multifunction if you need one you might want to look at it one more thing to talk about kind of unrelated but I got this retro radio up here that I'm real excited about it's like a world radio and both G's Big Bang net and I think it's pretty badass check that baby out you can actually like tune in stations from all over the world this was actually my grandfather's and once a once upon a time this was you know one of the hottest pieces of tech you could have on your desk and you guys know I'm into the retro tech look you can even like if you lift this baby up here there's like a little light built-in for looking at your maps and stuff that's pretty hardcore right so I've been trying to tune in stations from all over the world I think I tuned some from South America earlier but anyways you guys know I'm into the retro tech let me know if you want to know more about that old-school piece of equipment right there but anyway guys that's just been a very quick overview of the Epson Artisan 8 what once 8:37 if you enjoyed this content hopefully you can like and favorite this video hopefully I did not ramble on for too long but otherwise stay tuned for the next one I got a couple more products to unbox so you might want to stick around I'll see you guys around a channel okay later