EcoTank Photo ET-8550 Wireless Wide-format Color All-in-One Supertank Printer with Scanner Copier, Ethernet and 4.3-inch Colorfull Touchscreen

I ordered this to print a large batch of wedding photos in a variety of sizes, though I had been eyeing it for years for printing my other photos like landscapes. The printer was easy enough to set up and calibrate (although since it has a scanner, Epson could automate the alignment). I threw in some third party paper, selected a color profile, and was up and printing with good color and brightness in two or three prints. I have been printing 13x19's at a rapid pace, and the ink levels have barely gone down. Most of the cost of my prints seems to be the paper, by a wide margin. The print quality appears to be excellent, and an 11x17 with an inch margin only takes about five minutes to print! I have been avoiding borderless prints so far, as I have read that the ink can get on the rollers, and I can batch up smaller sizes onto a full sheet, then cut with a paper cutter. The maintenance tank shows slightly reduced capacity, so I'll be keeping one of those on hand along with extra ink. Wireless connection on Windows was very simple - the utility found the printer, so it was a one click operation. I have noticed that if my network is congested, prints can take a little longer, but I'm sending the full resolution image to the printer (rather than setting dpi and scaling before transmission), so some buffering delay is to be expected. I see that noise level is a recommended topic, and the printer really is quiet while printing, though there are some clunks at startup. Most of the time it's quieter than my laser printer.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Game Changer for Authors—My New Favorite Tool! As an author, I’m constantly creating swag for events, giveaways, and reader groups—and this printer has completely transformed the way I work. The Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550 is absolutely incredible. The print quality is crisp, vibrant, and professional every single time. My bookmarks, postcards, character art, stickers, and event handouts look like they came straight from a print shop. What I love most is that it’s wide-format, so I’m not limited by size. I can finally design and print larger pieces without paying for outsourcing. And the EcoTank system? A dream. No more expensive ink refills every two minutes—these tanks last forever, even with heavy use. The touchscreen is easy to navigate, it connects seamlessly to Wi-Fi, and it handles scanning and copying just as beautifully as it prints. It’s rare to find a machine that does everything well, but this one truly does. If you’re an author, crafter, small business owner, or anyone who likes making their own swag or creative goodies, this printer is worth every penny. It’s saved me time, money, and headaches—while letting me bring my ideas to life right at home.

I make a point to never leave bad reviews. I don't like the idea of putting negativity out in the world. BUT MY GOD I HATE THIS PRINTER. Before purchasing I read (and still see) so many great reviews, so I'm willing to concede that maybe I just got a total lemon. But if I hadn’t spent $800 on this printer, I would've chucked it on week one. Printers can be fussy, but I've never experienced so many different issues that I can't even pinpoint a potential problem. I'm going to allow myself one glorious meltdown venting session. Bc this printer is worth it. The manual feed on the back works about 1/10 attempts. At best. Error after error message even though everything was completed 100% to spec. I've stopped using the manual feed completely, and have conceded that even though I purchased this printer SPECIFICALLY for the ability to print on cardstock and other thick paper stocks, this is simply not a feature I get to use. Ever. I am not a stupid woman, nor am I technologically challenged. * This is not user error. * When I use the top paper feed, anything above basic print quality produces lines. When I try to realign the print heads to fix this, it will only select from one particular print cartridge for this, and the paper folds and crumbles in the interior (even though all the back manual feed equipment is properly reinstalled) and has to be carefully pried out by hand, so bc it only accepts paper for print head alignment, etc, through THIS ONE paper feed, I have not been able to realign the print heads. I get decent enough prints from the basic print setting, but I'm prevented from printing higher quality. As a professional artist, this is not okay. As I sit here venting on Amazon for the first time ever, the printer sits beside me, refusing to accept print commands from my computer wirelessly even though it says it's connected. So I transferred my 12x18" image to an SD card to print directly from the unit, but for some reason, the printer tells me that 12x18" is not a valid paper size and refuses to print, even though it has (in the past) via wireless connection. My only other option was to connect the printer directly to the computer (with a wire that is NOT included with purchase). Right now, it's pretending to print. It's a liar. I hear a single print line being created once every 30-45 seconds. It's been doing this for about 15 minutes, and I'm guessing I have about half an inch of my image completed in that 15 minutes. Have I mentioned the weird chugging sound it makes...all the time? This MUST be an anomaly. Maybe everyone else received a perfect printer and I got a factory reject that slipped through inspection. I am a professional artist and photographer, and rely on the sale of prints to help support my work. I have an event this weekend and at this point I am quite screwed. Could I go back in time, I'd purchase anything else. I hate this printer more than I hate any other item in my studio/office...and I sit next to a litter box.

The TLDR for this is the review title. It cost about $200 US more than I wanted to pay, and I tried mightily to find something else that was cheaper! But in the end, this was the only printer that I could actually say met my needs to support my serious "artsy" amateur photographer large print habit. I am pleased to say that it is worth every cent. I've had it about a week, and I've printed a LOT of photos (Maybe 30, or so), just to test it out. And the ink tanks aren't even down to the 25% used level. All printer Ink is expensive, but the way the Epson Ink is packaged and sold, it is projected to save the typical user about 80% in ink costs over the life of the printer. I believe this is a reasonable estimate based on my current usage, and I haven't even started my real printing yet. The print quality is excellent. Is it as good as one of those giant commercial grade printers? Probably not. But when I used good Epson and Canon printer paper, I thought it was as close as I could reasonably get for something that costs less than $1000 US. To be honest, I also printed on cheap Kodak paper, and while it wasn't quite as sharp and the color wasn't quite as accurate as the premium paper, it was still more than adequate, GOOD, even. Certainly good enough that Granny, Gramps, and Mom are not likely to notice. So cheap paper is not off the table for some print jobs. It's reasonably quiet and well built. My office area is right below my bedroom and I have no fear of it being heard up there. It's big and heavy and doesn't make the table it sits on wobble; it's rock solid. I like the large color LCD screen. I haven't had to clear any paper jams yet but access for clearing them is from the back and very easy to get to. The only negative I've encountered is that the auto select for which paper tray to use is unreliable. I've found that manually selecting the paper tray reduces the amount os swear words I use during the day! Go with the manual tray selection, or your kids will learn words you don't want them to know. I tried the scanner once, it works well, but is no better than any other all-in-one printer. I suspect all the printers of this type use the same type of scanner, possibly from the same manufacturer. You won't hate the scanner, but it's not going to stand out in your mind either. This is the perfect All-In-One printer for serious photographers on a budget who need to use paper that is 13 inches wide. If you can get by with standard letter size printer paper there is an almost identical printer that is a bit cheaper, but delivers all the other features of this one. (ET-8500) I am VERY happy with this printer, and I would buy it again, and I would recommend it to a friend.

I've just started gathering the things I need to establish a crafts shop, where I plan to sell merch at cons and online. First, I would like to note that I swapped out the ink in the printer for 3rd party ink. If you plan to do this, IT WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY. I've had great success with the precision colors ET8550 Archival Pigment ink, though. (The ET8550 comes with 1 bottle of black pigment and 5 bottles of dye ink, so it is pigment ink compatible, but unfortunately no sellers on amazon provide pigment ink for this printer since it needs six total colors). If you do plan to use 3rd party ink, fill your printer with that ink and never mix inks. This printer is getting 5 stars from me for its printing quality, and compatible sizes, because that's what I cared most about as an aspiring merch creator. However, do read the rest of this review because there were some parts of it that are frustrating. Pros: - prints on many different materials (sticker paper, cardstock, holographic paper) - prints come out pretty fast for the most part - don't smudge (would depend on your material though) - lines are crisp and accurate to original (won't beat the truecolor series of course, but this are sale-worthy prints) Cons: - 3rd party ink is hard to fill into the printer (see video): if using a syringe expect it to bubble a bit no matter how slowly you fill it up - cleaning out nozzles is ATROCIOUS with ink usage: on first fill, every printerhead was clean except for gray. Gray printer diagnostics had just a few missing bars, but was 90% fine; however it printed lines during a test print I did. So I ran nozzle cleaning, and let me tell you, by the time I got the printer working without issue, it used up 3/4ths of my brand new ink which was full prior to beginning. Not cheap. The worst part is that only my gray nozzle had any problems, but when cleaning the nozzles, the machine will clean and use ink from EVERY tank. If I had known in advance, I would've also gone straight for the power clean, because it suggests you run 3-4 normal cleans before the power clean but those didn't help at all. - can't print on 2.5x3.5 cards directly (3.5x3.5 being the smallest supported size) - borderless printing gets *very* close to the edges-but still leaves a border at least in my case, so you will have to trim prints a smidge. If getting it exactly to the edges is necessary, it might be better to just buy a bigger paper size. - printing duplex won't align the back side with the front side with 100% accuracy. Overall, my biggest complaint was with the ink costs during setup due to a single faulty nozzle. I'm still rating it 5 stars though, because for the week since setup i've done many prints with not a single problem. Highly recommended for people looking to make and sell merch!

My mother passed away this past May and I was scared of losing pictures of her to time. I purchased this all-in-one because I wanted to digitize old photos, restore them, and print my favorites. I received the printer yesterday and have only tested the scanning function, so far. I was initially concerned because I had read that there weren't drivers for Windows 11 or the newest versions of Macs, but I had read on their website that there might be some drivers that would still work. Setting it up was relatively easy, though the "cassettes," as the trays are called, could be better labeled. It took me a while to figure out where cassette 2 was to load paper for the calibrations. Ink is super easy to fill and the calibrations weren't hard either. I used my iPhone for set up (you'll need to download the Epson Smart Panel app*) and connected my MacBook Pro running Ventura 13.4.1 to it once set up was complete. It was easy going to epson.com/support, searching for the printer, and downloading the drivers. The computer and laptop must be on the same SSID or they will not be able to communicate. (I mention this because I normally keep my laptop/phones/IoT devices on different WiFi networks.) I started by scanning an 11x14 of my mother's senior photo. This was a little frustrating because parts of the picture would be cut off and I could see no obvious way on the scanner or my phone to adjust this. Only one device can be actively attached to the scanner at any one time, so I had to close the application in the phone completely and go back to the home screen on the scanner. Once that was done, instead of hitting scan on the scanner screen and telling it to send the image to my computer, I had to open Epson Smart Scan on the computer and I could finally adjust the settings. I set the scan size to maximum and then could also finally adjust the DPI at which it was scanning. Instead of 200 DPI (default), I set it to 2400 DPI and also did a second scan at 600 DPI for uploading to social media. The other amazing feature is color restoration. I had been watching tutorials for Adobe Lightroom so I would be able to restore all these photos and Smart Scan does this natively (if enabled). The two photos of my mother attached show the before and after enabling the color restoration feature. One thing I have noticed is that occasionally it seems to forget color restoration is enabled. After messing around with it and closing and opening the software repeatedly, I hit "Preview" before scan and it fixed my issue. Using Preview has also fixed an issue where rarely it would scan about only an inch of whatever photo was inside. I have a ton of photos, so it's been a bit slow going, but I love how quality the scans are and the time that's been saved on the back end with the color restoration feature. For someone that has the same uses I do, I would strongly recommend this scanner. I gave it four stars because of the intermittent errors and it could be a little easier to use. It also makes tiny crops to the photos I cannot get it to stop. Most of the time, they don't matter so much, unless a subject is already close to the edge. I will test the print function and update once I've finished scanning all my photos. *You can also scan and print from this app.

Congratulations Epson I don't hate you anymore. I have had Epson inkjet printers for about 30 years. For my work as an artist I usually buy this size wide carriage 13x19. However I have never ever advised that anyone else I know buy a color inkjet printer unless they absolutely need one. I have two black and white laser printers that I adore because they just work, lightning fast, the toner is cheap, the print quality is excellent. My parents for instance have against my advice had a couple of color inkjets because they very occasionally want to print in color. Misery. The ink cartridges are always empty the heads are always clogged and the thing just refuses to print in black and white even though the black cartridge is full but one of the color cartridges is empty. My old Epson r2880 has eight tiny little cartridges and one or two of them are ALWAYS low or empty and they are crazy expensive. The cartridges are also chipped so that you can't use anyone else's aftermarket cartridges, and there's a whole industry dedicated to getting around these issues. In my opinion it's a terrible business model for a printer company because you make your customers hate you, go to great lengths to buy cheaper ink from other companies, and it all discourages them from using the printer and doing a lot of printing and buying your other supplies like paper. Well I read an awful lot about these new tank style printers and how they could potentially solve most of these issues. And I have to say I think they have nailed it. This printer is an absolute joy to use and you just look for excuses to print anything. The gloss prints on Epson ultra premium paper are simply the finest gloss prints I've ever seen. The ink tanks are huge and transparent so you can tell how much ink is in them and the ink lasts a way long time and it's really not that expensive. The ink bottles are actually kind of brilliant you can't put the wrong ink in the wrong tank cuz the nozzles are different shapes and they don't drip ink at all or anything. You can top them up at any time it's beautiful. Turns out you really don't need 8 or 10 colors to print gorgeous luminous prints. I am happy to buy Epson brand ink under these conditions. I mean I could still buy a different company's ink and put it in these tanks but why would you?I've always liked Epson photo paper and use it almost exclusively. I actually tell my kids to go and use the printer all they want. My neighbors too. If there's a print you think you might like print it for goodness sake! Print it larger! Now see Epson: THAT is a business model. I had trepidations as this is a die ink printer. Everyone says artists should "use pigment inks for archival longevity". I've decided I just don't care. Pigment inks tend to clog. They actually don't look that good on glossy paper did anyone ever tell you that? They need a special varnish coat in order for the gloss to pop. If one of these dye prints fades in 20 years you know what it's digital files, I'll just go print the darn thing again it's not that expensive on a printer like this. I even kind of like the Epson print layout software, even though it looks like it was designed in the Windows XP era, and the scanner and it's software work quite well. I've had Epson flatbed scanners also for years and this one being built directly into the printer is just very useful. The touch screen also works well and you can quickly run off a copy which I've never really been able to do before, because I've had a separate printer and scanner and it's just too much of a pain to fire them both up and get on the computer. Also the wireless print function is really great. I can print a 4x6 from my phone in a few clicks, or a PDF from my tablet, what have you. There's even a special paper slot just to hold 4x6s in addition to other paper, gloss full sheets in the rear feed, plain paper in the bottom tray. They really have kind of thought of everything with this printer. If I need to do some serious black and white printing of text I will still use the laser. On cheap copy paper the inkjet looks a little fuzzy and is actually not waterproof. But if I didn't have a laser I wouldn't go out and buy one because one printer is better than two. Just use inkjet plain paper and you'll be set This is a printer I can happily recommend to basically anyone, and I have never been able to say that about a color ink jet before.

I love love love this printer! It prints professional quality photos with no fits. No connection issues like we’ve had with our other printers, and uses the tiniest bit of ink compared to cartridge printers. It’s more money than many other tank printers, but is well worth every penny if you want to print quality photos at home. Get it, it doesn’t disappoint!