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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If you want the best photo printing quality, the ET-8550 is a better choice as it has a wider color range and better color accuracy. Not only are prints pretty sharp, but the ET-8550 also produces prints with nice vibrant colors and smooth tonal transitions. On the other hand, 4x6 prints are a bit less demanding, and the ET-8550 can print a low-quality 4x6 on glossy paper in well under 30 seconds. The Epson EcoTank ET-8550 also has 2 front cassettes, a rear feed and a straight pass feed to allow more versatility for a range of printing projects.

However, the Epson is more versatile because it has a scanner, and its ink tank yields more prints, resulting in a significantly lower cost per print. 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. The Epson ET-8550 is great for printing black-and-white documents as it produces high-quality prints at a decent pace, and its ink tank yields thousands of pages, making it very cost-effective for high-volume printing. If it has gone to sleep sending it a document to print does not wake it up, you have to walk to the printer wake it up then send the document!

Looking at the horizontal lines across the entire print, the first thing I would do is a nozzle check.

When you consider that the ET-8500 is essentially a five-ink photo printer (one of the blacks plus CMY/Gray), the prints that come from this printer are pretty amazing.The Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550 and the Epson Expression Premium XP-7100 are very different printers designed for different uses.

The online manual and the help screens on the touchscreen display weren’t much help either, but I noticed a small QR code to the left of the row of graphics, which led me to a languid YouTube video 3 I’m not joking; check it out. Much like older Epson Pro printers 4 Like the Stylus Photo 2880 and the Stylus Pro 3800, both of which were reviewed here, long ago in a printerverse far, far away.

You can print quite a bit faster at lesser quality, but I don't want to sacrifice quality when making a print that size. There was a set of very small graphics indicating what you need to do to set up the straight path, but my poor eyesight really couldn’t discern what I was supposed to do, now that I had the paper feed unit removed. However, what sets the printer apart from something like Epson's SureColor printers is the efficiency of the EcoTank printer.