Epson EcoTank ET-8550 A3 Print/Scan/Copy Wi-Fi Photo Ink
Epson EcoTank ET-8550 A3 Print/Scan/Copy Wi-Fi Photo Ink Tank Printer, With Up To 2 Years Worth Of Ink Included
Artistic Media Compatibility
Highly flexible, the ET-8550 not only allows you to print directly onto suitable CDs and DVDs, but you can also store photo size and A4 paper in the front trays ensuring your printer is always loaded and ready to go. The rear tray allows you to print on A3+ paper as well as media such as craft papers and card, whilst the A3+ straight paper feed means you can print on media up to 1.3mm thick and 2m long, giving you the opportunity to be as creative and artistic as you like!
Epson Smart Panel App
The Epson Smart Panel App enables you to control your printer from your smart phone or tablet*. Print photos, copy documents, set up and troubleshoot your printer, and let your creativity flow with a wide range of artistic templates!
Heat-Free Technology
With our forward-thinking Micro Piezo heat-free technology, you can enjoy consistent high-speed printing, with greatly reduced energy consumption and less need for replacement parts.
* 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, visit the manufacturer website.
** Quoted yields are extrapolated based on the ISO/IEC 29103 pattern with Epson’s methodology printing 10x15cm photos, and NOT based on ISO/IEC 29102. Quoted yields may vary depending on the images that you are printing, paper type that you are using, 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 can be lower.
| Weight: | 11.1 kg |
| Dimensions: | 37.9 x 52.3 x 16.9 cm; 11.1 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Epson |
| Model: | C11CJ21401CE |
| Colour: | Black |
| Manufacture: | Epson |
| Dimensions: | 37.9 x 52.3 x 16.9 cm; 11.1 Kilograms |
The setup was very simple but the instructions do leave a little to desire. I finally found out how to open the rear card feeder tray via a YouTube video. Complicated, but when you have a versatile printer like this there is a lot to fit into a smallish unit. The print quality is brilliant. I read one review where they said that the colour was not particularly accurate to the source but apart from a very slight drop in saturation being needed it is perfect.
After a couple of months, I am very impressed with this printer. It is fast, quiet and full of features. However, it was expensive. You either buy a cheap printer and expensive ink or vice-versa.
I have been looking at the Printer for sometime and eventually purchased it. I am sorry that I did not do this months ago. I opted for cheaper Printers but then returned to look at ET-5800. I made the move and I am more than pleased with this product. Just absolutely marvellous.
his printer is amazing. the quality and ease of use is the best. the ink lasts forever.
If you are into photography then this one’s for you. Print up to A3+ superb print quality from home use.
Purchased the Epson ET-8500 printer. This was an excellent choice as this is an amazing printer with all the features that I need and more. This was so easy to set up and easy to use.
Only really annoying feature is that there is no option to have it automatically retract the output tray. This drives me insane as requires a number of button presses to turn printer back on then retract then turn off again. (I think 5 presses). Seems very stupid, but other than that it is fantastic.
I found it straight-forward to both install the software on my windows laptop from the web and to fill the ink tanks.
Very pleased
Said I’d come bak on the print quality. Exceptional and the software bundle is quite good. (One of the things I downloaded see above). Then thought I’d try scanning. The software was right there in my task bar. Would it work, no of course not. Another hour or so searching the Epson website and finding Scan Smart which is apparently the appropriate software for this printer, not the download marked ‘scan’ that I had downloaded the previous day.
So be prepared for a challenging task if you happen to be an Apple user, seems Epson doesn’t think there are many of us out there. To be fair no it’s working I am very pleased.
But my biggest disappointment is its ink tank. When it says 2 years’ worth of ink, I was expecting at least 1000 prints. But I have only printed 25 full-colour A4 and four A3 posters. Some of the ink is almost half empty already. So, you will be lucky if you get 200 full-color prints. Don’t fall for 2 years worth of ink, it might last 2 years only if you make 5 prints per month.
The quality of the unit is first class. Install instructions are very easy to follow and comprehensive and took about half hour from start to finish.
A full set of inks are supplied and should last hundreds of photos. I had to print about 120 A4 photos for a wedding and this thing did them without any issue.
Print quality is outstanding. Using proper Epsom paper makes a difference and that’s not badly priced on Amazon.
Printing from laptop, iPhones, iPads all no issue with the Epsom app.
I’ve tried many printers and this is the dogs danglers.
Buy one you won’t regret i
Brilliant quality all-in-one scanner and printer. Great for both photos and documents. Touch screen is great. Only fiddly thing is the photo palate and A4 paper tray, but once you figure out how to load it it works great. Really easy to select sizes and paper type and great to have both loaded at once.
Works equally well printing from Mac or iPhone. Really pleased with this purchase. Worth the extra money.
I bought this Epson Eco Tank Model.
The print quality is extremely good.
The printer does everything for you at the touch of the screen, it’s really user friendly.
I am presently trying to teach it too make my breakfast.
The ink tanks may outlive me before they need refilling.
I purposely do a colour print every week to stop the ink from drying out in the print head etc.
George Watson at 1400, on Thursday the 10/11/22.
No visible change in ink levels yet after nearly 500 pages of print, Impressive !
Print quality is good out of the box. It frist job was to print 50 order of service. This we used matt 130g paper dubel sided and an 80g paper insert we had no jams or mishap. Printing from Samsung phone is a doddle much better than Canon just select print set paper size hit print and your done
I have done a few photos print using lighroom only had Canon gloss paper to had gave good quality and colour
It’s was paying the extra over the Canon
Will update in due course
Didn’t expect all the provided ink to be required at the start. Can see why they do ship this with a second set although if it lasts as long as expected that may be a fair while. Why only 4 stars. The scannner cover feels really cheap and with no autofeed for at least a4 feels a backwards step. I think the scanner bed is also slightly smaller than I expected so tight on some drawings. The software works really well but less options than my last model. It is smaller though and a lot less obtrusive and the screen paper tray. Workings are very neat.
This printer was easy to install via the phone app – this is the recommended way and gives clear interactive instructions. Ink tank filling is mess free. After install was completed (~10mins), the PC found it immediately over Wifi. We were printing within 15 minutes.
The most important thing for me is print quality and speed. The quality of photos is excellent on photo paper. The difference to professionally printed photos I can’t find. The quality of documents on plain paper is good, especially given the high speed with which they are printed! The small criticism is that on plain paper this printer could go less heavy on the ink. In particular any absorbent paper will likely see some ink bleed (so consider what you print on). But for home use overall it is excellent.
I can’t yet comment fully on the longevity claims of the ink tanks. But they remain around the full level, despite some high initial use. So looks promising.
In terms of other features Scan / copy quality is great. The printers footprint is surprisingly small (smaller than my Canon). It has 2 paper trays for A4 size and photo paper, 1 CD tray and a rear tray. The touch screen is big and easy to navigate. It has a maintenance tank to collect excess ink rather than leave the printer full of ink from head cleaning (like my Canon). The printer even has its own email address to send it documents to print.
Then there is the mobile phone App this is great also. Easy to use and print from. This also enables some creativity (template ideas etc). The PC software is less refined, but provides the same functionality. Some of the creative functionality is also available on the printer touch screen.
So although this is still on the expensive side I think well worth it. It is high spec and you pay for what you get. Time will tell if it lives as long as my Canon and represents better value. No printer is perfect, but this one gets pretty close!
Initially It printed fine on blank A4 paper for text etc. However, the Photos I am printing were 98% good initially, sadly the 2% ruins them as I am getting a great big splodge of black ink dripping onto the top right corner of the prints rendering them unusable. I have used a number of my top quality Epson Photo paper sheets so far which is annoying in extremis. The small prints are fine but A4 is just a no-no at the moment.
This improved in time as I suspect that the ink dried out, though where it came from is strange. Having let things settle down the A4 photo prints are coming out exceptionally well
The drawers are poorly designed with the output tray sometimes getting stuck and not coming out fully. When it is out you cannot easily top-up the photo paper draw as it blocks it. The machine recognises that the back tray is open and loaded but then won’t take the paper into the machine. However specifying that as the default tray does work so there is something a little screwy happening.
Despite having tried everything and followed the instructions online and from the printer screen it refuses to print Envelopes from MS Word and just tells me to alter the CD/DVD insert but I am NOT doing a CD/DVD
Overall for photo prints it is very good, it just has poor design faults and lacks flexibility or something.
Very quiet running, quick to use, no cranking and grinding noises like those made by my previous printer. I chose this printer due to it being a Which Magazine best buy, along with many good reviews. It’s smart, and neat looking, and works well.
The paper tray is easy to use, and holds plenty of sheets ready for printing. Scanning and copying are also easy and straightforward to do. We did have a slight problem at one stage with paper refusing to print, but managed to solve it quite easily.
On the downside, this item is expensive though hopefully will last a while. You need to be able to learn and understand various settings when statements are displayed on screen. Also, there was so much plastic packaging within the cardboard box, most of it totally unnecessary and it would be great to reduce some of it.