Epson EcoTank ET-4850 Print/Scan/Copy Wi-Fi Ink Tank
Epson EcoTank ET-4850 Print/Scan/Copy Wi-Fi Ink Tank Printer, With Up To 3 Years Worth Of Ink Included
Modern flexibility
A printer for the modern user, this EcoTank allows you to print, scan, and more directly from your phone or tablet using the Epson Smart Panel app3. What’s more, with full Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct and Ethernet connectivity, integrating this printer with your existing home or office set-up will be a breeze!
Heat-Free Technology
With our forward-thinking PrecisionCore Heat-Free Technology you can enjoy the benefits of greatly reduced energy consumption and less need for replacement parts. Unlike other printers, the printhead also comes pre-installed so setting up your printer is hassle-free.
Packed with features
Print, copy, scan and fax quickly and efficiently. This compact printer features a 6.1cm colour touchscreen, automatic double-sided printing and 30-page document feeder, fax, 250-page front paper tray and print speeds of up to 15.5 pages per minute5 so you can speed through a variety of tasks with ease giving you more time to relax.
Average cost per page saving and average number of inkjet cartridges required to print the same number of pages as EcoTank “102” and “104”ink bottles. Comparison between average yield (A4 prints of ISO/IEC 24711) of EcoTank “102” and “104” bottles and the genuine consumables used within the 50 best-selling inkjet cartridge printers (according to GfK Inkjet Printing Devices and Inkjet Printing Cartridges Point of Sale panel market data for Germany, France, UK, Spain and Italy Apr-19 – Mar 2020).
Quoted yields may vary depending on the images that you are printing, the paper type that you are using, the frequency of your prints and environmental conditions such as temperature. During the initial printer setup, a certain amount of ink is used to fill the print head’s nozzles, therefore the yield of the initial bundled set will be lower.
Based on print volume of 100 pages per month and the lowest yield produced from the first set of inks.
Quoted yields are extrapolated based on Epson original methodology from the print simulation of Test Patterns provided in ISO/IEC 24712 or 29103. Quoted yields are NOT based on ISO/IEC 24711 or 29102.
Determined in accordance with ISO/IEC 24734 showing the average of ESAT from the Office Category Test for default simplex. For more information visit the Epson website.
Epson Smart Panel and Epson Creative Print require a wireless connection and the Epson printing apps. Epson Email Print, Epson Scan-to-Cloud and Epson Remote Print Driver require an internet connection. For more information, supported languages and devices, please visit the Epson website.
| Weight: | 67 kg |
| Dimensions: | 34.7 x 37.5 x 23.1 cm; 6.7 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Epson |
| Model: | C11CJ60401 |
| Colour: | Black |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Epson |
| Dimensions: | 34.7 x 37.5 x 23.1 cm; 6.7 Kilograms |
PS This does NOT have a “touch screen”. The screen gives info and choices and the buttons to the right of the screen have to be used to select the options displayed on the scree
Overall, I like this printer, although it’s early days and I don’t do a lot of printing. I went for an ink tank printer because I got fed up of buying expensive cartridges, and my last printer, also an Epson, broke after several years of use.
The general build quality is good, although the flap for the ADF is a bit flimsy. The footprint for this printer is smaller that my previous one, despite having and ADF and ink tanks, so that was a bonus. The touch screen is a little bit cheap feeling, and when switching off it annoyingly asks you confirm you want to switch off. Overall though, I really like this printer, and the print quality is good enough for my needs.
So easy and so much cheaper than my old HP printers. Like something simple, then this is for you. No nonsense, great value and still going strong over two months later with the sample ink!
Super fast at printing, great scan quaility, double sided printing…. and best of all, very efficient. I’ve barely made a dent in the included ink after months of use.
Should have bought one before now!
Just changed my more that 10 years old cartridge printer and seems like that was a right decision. Printer have everything think you need. Didn’t even connected to computer yet. So easy to setup and control the printer from the app on mobile phone. Good choice. Happy
Very quick delivery. Good CD to help installation. Good system to install ink from the bottles.
Pleased with the printer so far, but it is a bit noisy. The touch screen is very small, it should be larger.
The print quality is excellent, nice and clear and having automatic double sided printing is great. The printer comes with lots of ink, two bottles of black and one each of cyan, magenta and yellow, so I can’t see me needing more for a very long time as I only use my printer for hobby printing and occasional documents when I’m working from home. Can’t speak to the quality of photo printing as I haven’t had the need to do that yet.
Overall, I’m really pleased with my choice and look forward to many years of use.
Great little printer. Got as a replacement for our old one. Prints perfectly and have been very impressed with how much we have printed with very little usage of the inks. Copies and scan well too. Easy to use and install
One set of ink with an extra bottle of black ink will last most users for one full year.
Quality of prints is superb Epson quality.
The scanner work for both Windows and Linux. No driver is needed for the latter.
I find the printing using mobile phone truly versatile as it will print if one just shares it with the printer. An Epson App needs to be installed first.
The printer does everything it should, it simple to set up and scanning to my PC also works very well whereas I have had problems in the past with other printers.
There are other EcoTank models to suit your needs and budget and I assume these would similarly tick all the boxes too.
It’s a bit fiddly to set up, but my goodness it is so economical with ink and works extremely well
Good quality print output if a little slower than I had hoped. Good ink economy. Fairly compact. Used as a small office and home printer/scanner/copie
Eco tank printers are a good idea for saving on printer ink in the long run and reducing plastic waste on cartridges. So very much a step forward.
Setting this up to work on Wi-Fi took four hours of failed attempts, downloading printer drivers, patches, software updates and multiple attempts to connect to the router. So not a plug and play item by any means unless you have a very recent computer – less than a year old. Worked more or less straight away with new MacBook Pro. Took hours and hours to set up with four year old MacBook Pro.
Wi-Fi connection not intuitive. Could not scan the barcode on the computer as it’s far too small for the phone app reader to pick it up. That should be larger on the back ir inside so it’s easier to use.
Print quality is very good. Takes about 30 minutes to set up and run the ink through the first time – once you connected to Wi-Fi.
Nothing about this printer is no good, it almost talks to you!!!
Having spent twenty years regretting my succession of cheap printers, I am very happy with this one. The whole process of printing, including double-sided, is smooth and tidy.
Great printer but quite slow and keeps turning itself off.
This is the best inkjet printer I have ever owned. I have owned many other brands and this is my first Epson and I can honestly say its the best brand with the best Japanese technology.
The Japanese PrecisionCore ink Printhead technology from Epson is a laser beater and prints in amazing quality. It is heat free and therefore is eco friendly for the environment as it uses far less electricity than your normal heated printheads.
Well done Epson for this amazing printer.
The setup is very easy and can be done all on your smartphone and you will save a lot of money using the EcoTank Ink bottles.
Overall it’s a great printer. Best feature is the auto feed when you want to copy. Has made life so much easier.
Only slight issue is the power button doesn’t always switch the printer on. Sometimes it can take 10+ goes to get it to switch on.
The features of the ET3850 were exactly what I was looking for; quality printing (including auto-duplex), scanning and wifi printing from mobile devices. It was easy to set up and the ink filling process was easy and spill-free using the foolproof fittings which differed for each colour to avoid mistakes. Connecting it to my wifi network was also easy although it did take a little time to update its firmware early in the process. I have 2 minor niggles when comparing it with the various HP models I’ve owned: 1) the software is not as user friendly or as comprehensive, but it works, 2) pressing the off button does not switch the machine off, you have to then use the menu buttons to change an option and then confirm with the ok button before it switches off. Although some might find this a benefit, I find it annoying that I have to press 3 different buttons to switch it off. On the plus side, as well as good quality printing, the machine seems to be able to print decent quality when started up even when it hasn’t been used for a while. I found that the HPs often required head cleaning and test printing which wasted paper, time and expensive ink! So far, I haven’t had to do this at all. Overall, I think this model is good value when looked at over a two or three year period and hope it last much longer than that. Having owned and used it for a few months now, I would buy it again.
I had been using brother printer for many years but was giving me problems like will disconnect out sync from computer and there was no way to sync it again, other issue was buying new ink and it will show cartridges empty while there will be still ink in it.
I had no other problem like other people mentioned about set up, set up was straight and simple.
Scanning through the feeder is little tricky, if the paper has a fold or little wrinkles it will jam and won’t work.
Scanning is slow but not bad.
It is still better than those printer which have expensive ink.
Photo print quality is good.
My first thought when I took it out of the box was how light and cheap it felt. My previous printers have felt a lot sturdier than this. I downloaded the app to my iPad as that was the recommended way to set the printer up. All went well until the ‘ink initialisation’ phase, when nothing happened. After a couple of retries with the app I gave up and set the printer up manually via the touch screen. This all went well and the printer was connected to WiFi and ready to go fairly quickly.
The printer works well and so far I’ve had no issues either printing or scanning via WiFi. I make sure I always print at least one test page a week, if I’m not using the printer much, and so far only had to run a quick nozzle clean once. One thing to note is that this printer does not have a paper tray, all paper is fed via the rear, this may not be convenient if you print a lot of pages at a time.
The printer is light and the plastic paper trays don’t feel very strong, if you press a button on the front too hard you’re like to push the printer back! As I don’t print much this printer does me fine, I’m not so sure it would if I was a heavy user.
I know my way around a pc, laptop and a Mac but this has me thinking, it’s never happy about the paper size I tell it I’m using, apart from that it runs rings round my 15yr old printer (so it should) but it does the same thing to me I do like the function to print from my iPhone onto A4 gloss in super quality from anywhere in the world, not that I want to go anywhere in the present day climate. 5 stars well done EPSON.
Once the setup is completed, getting used to the operating keys takes a while as it is not entirely intuitive. Plus, the printer is expensive to purchase. Okay, that’s all the negatives. Once up and running this is a dream to use in comparison to other printers I have used. It is quiet in operation, works seamlessly with Windows, IOS and Android (I’ve had issues with AirPrint in the past) and doesn’t take ages to fire up like my Canon. The footprint is smaller too. Prints and scans are great quality on cheap A4 paper. I imagine serious photographers will get stunning results on photo quality paper.
So, is it worth the money? Absolutely, even for a casual user like myself. One delighted customer!
I decided to get the ET-3850. It does automatic 2-sided printing and has the ADF feature (Automatic Document Feeder) for making a hard copy of documents.
Warning to buyers – The ADF can only do a 1-sided hard copy of the documents. But, this is not a deal-breaker for me. I knew this before I bought it.
There is a way to do double-sided copying. You just need to manually run the documents twice through the ADF feeder. This is how I do it:
After the first run of copying, I simply flip the documents (that are to be copied) in the ADF. I then re-feed the recently printed documents in the paper tray. Then, re-run it. Make sure you get the sides right. It will take some trial and error. Yes, it is manual, but an ADF feature in such a compact printer is gold for me and I only need to do a few copies at a time.
ET-3850 Positives –
1. I am satisfied with the ink efficiency so far. I have used the ADF to make about 200 b&w copies. The ink level has marginally dropped.
2. The ADF output is damn good. I am copying handwritten pencil notes. They come out dark as the originals (even when I lower the dark settings a bit).
3. The printer is compact and smaller than my current HP printer with overpriced cartridges.
ET-3850 Negatives –
1. The build quality is not of the highest desire for the price. But, it is sturdy enough and does the job. I just wish it looked a like little bit more posh.