Epson EcoTank ET-8550 A3 Print/Scan/Copy Wi-Fi Photo Ink Tank Printer, With Up To 2 Years Worth Of Ink Included

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However, there are significantly cheaper printers with better color accuracy, like the Canon PIXMA TR8620a. If you’re just starting out, and haven’t really printed before, the Epson EcoTank printer is an excellent starter printer. It has an automatic document feeder, which the ET-8550 lacks, and it's more cost-effective because it yields more prints, and its replacement ink is cheaper.

However, there isn't much space from the front and under the scanner, so it may be hard to grab jammed sheets. There, the wider gamut of printers like the P900 and the Pro-300 will produce more nuanced prints on uncoated media. The results are the same but the controls are clearer, which may help you understand what is going on. This is large, clear and easy to use, and it can be tilted out from the bottom edge so you can still use it if you’re standing in front of the printer. In addition to the usual cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink, it uses gray and photo-black ink to produce more detailed photos.

I believe that the discernible qualitative difference between this and the P Series is there, but from normal viewing distances the ET-8550 output would probably hold-up fine for my intended (non- art gallery) audience. COLOUR INK SYSTEM - The Epson Claria ET Premium inks produce high-quality, long-lasting photos up to A3+ size as well as outstanding black and white photos with the new grey ink, The pigment black ink is ideal for printing sharp text on plain papers. I also profiled a number of Epson higher-end papers, including Exhibition Fiber and Legacy Fibre, as well as quite a few third-party papers from Red River, Canson, and others. Page yields are declared by the manufacturer in accordance with ISO/IEC standards or occasionally estimated based on 5% per page coverage.

Enjoy stunning A3+ photos and documents at incredibly low running costs, with a range of modern connectivity features the whole family will love. While they’re not designed to be fine-art printers, they will be darn close for most casual and serious amateur photographers who want to get into printing. The photo black new photo grey ink makes it easy to achieve outstanding black and white photos, while the pigment black ink ensures sharp text when printing double-sided documents on plain paper, making this printer a fantastic choice for every task in your home. Perfect for creatives, this printer also accepts a range of media types for photo or craft printing and it can print professional quality photos with up to 5,760 x 1,440 dpi print resolution. Epson has greatly improved their ink dispersion technology, replacing the light cyan and light magenta colours with pigment black and photo grey for a higher level of print accuracy.Many issues can be fixed using our FAQ’s or our Virtual Assistant (EVA), so we recommend to check the FAQ’s or use the Virtual Assistant before contacting a repair centre. Epson’s first supertank printers shipped more than a decade ago, and since then Canon and HP have also entered the supertank space, with their MegaTank and Smart Tank printer lines, respectively. Professional-grade photo printers, such as Epson’s SureColor P700 (and a few other SureColor models) and Canon’s imagePrograf and Pixma Pro machines, use 10 or more.

This isn’t quite as many as you’ll get from replacement inks, because although they’re the same size, a fair amount of ink is used during the initialisation process. As noted in the print quality section, Epson is clearly using gray to carry a lot of the heavy lifting in the print engine, but the fact that I was barely to the halfway level for the other inks was startling. Despite these papers being designed for pigment prints, I was delighted with the few prints I made on them. If you’ve been printing previously on an older photo printer, and are primarily interested in printing on more fine art and baryta papers, the PRO-300 is definitely a better pick.You must instead tap a button on the touchscreen, and the printer will retract the tray, allowing you to close the front of the printer. Not only do you go through more of them if you print with any regularity, but they’re also wasteful. Overall both printers seem to deliver excellent printing quality while also being more economical than their competitors with the Canon having the edge in print quality by using pigment-based ink and the Epson being cheaper and more convenient to maintain. The improved greyscale can make your arty prints look professional, especially when blown up onto A3 paper. It's a bit odd because with the output tray in the extended position, it's hard to load additional paper in the front paper trays.