And once again, I agree. My little quip was meant only to point out the "irrelevance" of stating the obvious. I would imagine that anyone who has done much printing with these machines is quite aware of the basic insignificance of the file transport time compared with the actual printing time. However, I may be mistaken, and it certainly wouldn't be the first time. If so, I hope you will forgive my "quipage". It was not meant to provoke.
Gary
Indeed, I said as much in my reply #10 some time ago. However, it is good to know the difference in transmission speed among various modalities (USB, Bluetooth, Ethernet, etc) for applications other than printing. The active USBwould likely not be the best solution for driving a portable hard drive or for a video streaming application.
For a dedicated Epson printer attached to a single computer, USB is the simplest solution. Installation of a network printer is more complicated, but the better printer and computer manufacturers provide good installation utilities. I run my Epson photo printer via USB but I have two HP Laserjets (monochrome and color) and they have operated flawlessly for years after installation with the HP utility from Windows. I recently bought a MacBook Pro laptop and wanted to use the network printers on it. I clicked on install printer icon on the Mac while on WiFi, and within moments the driver was automatically downloaded and installed. The printers work flawlessly. So if a networked installation might be useful, users should not shy away from it.
Bill