EpsonEcoTank Pro ET-5850 Wireless Color All-in-One Supertank Printer with Scanner, Copier, Fax and Ethernet, White

I purchased the Epson ET-5880 for our small office to fulfill our need for a good color printer. I read a number of a reviews about the printer before making the purchase. Most were positive, so I went ahead and ordered the printer. I'm very pleased with this printer. I had no problem connecting it to our network. Installing the drivers on four computers was easy as well. I should note that the printer comes with a CD for installation, but I chose to use the NEWER drivers that were on Epson's website instead. You should do that as well.Filling the ink tanks on the printer was very simple. Not so much as a drop of ink was spilled. The ink bottles are keyed so that one cannot put the wrong color ink in a tank no intended for that color. Once filled, the unit goes through a charging process (Epson's term) to get ink to the print heads. Yes, it uses a little ink, but Epson also supplied a second set of ink bottles so that the ink tanks are full after the charging process. The printing is very fast, yielding high quality print. I suggest using 22 or 24 pound paper, especially if printing on both sides of the paper.I was particularly interested in seeing how this printer would handle scanning. I do a lot of two-sided scanning. The scanning software, SCAN 2 and SCANSMART, both worked well. SCAN 2 gives the user lots of options, but might be overwhelming to a newer user. The SCANSMART software is more visual and gives the user enough features to adjust and/or crop images as needed. The software does provide the option of creating a searchable PDF file, which is something I like as I deal in contract documents. Of course, one can print from a cell phone or tablet if desired. There's even a remote print feature where one can print via email from anywhere where there's an Internet connection.Overall, I'm pleased with this printer. It's not inexpensive, but it will easily meet the needs of a small office.

It prints fast and with excellent quality. The pigment-based inks for black and color provide a near-waterproof print.

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I purchased this printer and although I got no where near the advertised number of printed pages per ink refill i was overall ok with this printer. Not the best I ever had but not the worst either. However. the free ink for two years is what really pisses me off. It is NOT a "contact us and we'll send you ink" situation. It is a REBATE and its not an easy rebate to get. You have to purchase your ink and then send your receipt AND the empty containers to get the rebate along with filling out a form with your machines model and serial number. To ship the empty containers you'll pay about $9 (US) so that's off the top of your rebate. I jumped through all their hoops and sent everything. They sent me an email denying my claim saying:" ...we could not honor your request due to the following reason(s):All required products were not submitted"They give you a tracking number and a link which sends you to a page that says the exact same thing. No way to find out what was not submitted. It says the exact same thing. So, you call the number. The automated system is infuriating as it asks a bunch of questions and then finally says the exact same thing as the email and the linked page. You finally get to a human after all of the above and they tell you the EXACT SAME THING. I explained that I filled out the form, and shipped the empty bottles to them so what "Product" were they referring to. I was told that since I bought the EPSON ink all in one box (Epson color combo pack 542) and not as individual bottles that the purchase did not qualify. SERIOUSLY??? My claim is now under review and will take an additional 7 - 10 days. I was told not to inquire again about this until after the full 10 days had passed. I will update this review with the outcome but BUYER BEWARE!

The printer is nice and very fast printing regular documents in color or black and white. Printing photos is slower but still pretty faster than other printers I have seen. The model I purchased was the ET-5850, it came with 2 sets of full size ink bottles. When you set up the printer one set will fill the tanks. You think run through setup on the display and it will take 9 minutes to prime the system. This is initially getting the ink from the tanks to fill the empty tubes to the print heads. When this is done (takes 9 minutes) the tanks will be ½ full. Good thing you have the second set.The size in the images shows the depth of the printer to be 31 inches, it's not, it's about 19 inches with the back tray closed and the output tray retracted.Installing the driver way very simple. I did not use the driver disc as I'm running the latest OS on my computers. My Mac's all found the printer and set them up. (Note: I run in dark mode on my computers and when the driver installs it as the back version of the printer for the icon we is very hard to see in dark mode. I was able to change it to the image that matched the color my printer, but that takes some under the hood tinkering.) Both of my Windows computers also found and set up the printers without any issue.You can also set up an email address for your printer that people can email you documents to it. The Epson website gives you a lot of control over this. You can change to a custom name before the @ in the address or use the random one they picked. You can also limit who can send to your printer. That is something that I liked on my old HP this one replaced.Two items that I think they need to fix:The output tray comes out automatically when you start to print. It does not retract automatically, there is a symbol on the control panel that you tap to get it to retract. They should have made it so that when you take what was printed that it automatically retracts as it sticks out pretty far.The web interface isn't great. If you have ever used the web interface for a commercial copier, then you know what I mean. For example, when putting in contacts for faxing/scanning/emailing, the interface doesn't allow you to put in email addresses. There is an option to select the type of contact, fax, email, etc, but if doesn't give you a box to put in the email address. If you add the entry on the display for the device its self then you can put in the email. You can then go back to the web interface and edit the entry and the email address. Crazy right. Luckily I didn't have many to put in.If they could five those two items I would give it 5 stars. I'm going to email Epson my thoughts and see what happens.