The photo black and new photo grey ink makes it easy to achieve outstanding black and white photos, while the pigment black ink ensures sharp text when printing double-sided documents on plain paper, making this printer a fantastic choice for every task in your home.

It doesn’t have the number of inks necessary to produce professional-looking photos, but I think it’s great for amateur photographers like me. The scanner was able to capture and copy my different highlighting colors on a document even though the colors are less vivid and bright on the copy (the original document is the one on the left in the photo above and the copy is on the left). Android and iOS smartphones and tablets can connect via Wi-Fi Direct or over a network with Epson’s Smart Panel mobile app. However, if you are a professional photographer looking for a professional photo printer, this is probably not the printer for you.Printing photos will use more ink, and Epson claims that it is the per-print cost that is more important with the EcoTank Photo printers.

There are slots for an SD card and a USB-A drive located on the left front of the printer if you wish to print from storage devices. Following the six-month deferral period, Novuna Personal Finance will initiate a monthly direct debit payment for the remaining duration of the loan. The first test entailed clocking the ET-8500 as it printed a one-sided 25-page Microsoft Word text document. Personal Stationery – You can print “Design Paper”, “Ruled Paper” (which includes grid-style graph paper and music staff paper), “Writing Papers” (which is stationery paper), “Schedule”, and “Calendar” sheets. In addition to using Smart Panel, you can use your phone or tablet to print photos or manage the printer via Android Direct Printing, Apple AirPrint, Mopria, or the Epson Connect app.With care, you shouldn’t get ink anywhere other than its tank (Epson’s primary caution is that you don’t squeeze the bottles during the filling process). Produce creative documents and photos up to A4 in size, at a low cost per page, with Epson's EcoTank ET-8500. I believe that the discernible qualitative difference between this and the P Series is there, but from normal viewing distances the ET-8550 output would probably hold-up fine for my intended (non- art gallery) audience.

color LCD touchscreen control panel which is nice to have to easily navigate through different settings.

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Next, tap on “Done” (last screenshot above) which takes you back to the photo, then tap on the “Print” button. Do the printouts ‘run’ if wet/damp or are they like laser that wet or damp does not affect the printout? However, since the ET-8500 uses two additional inks, it’s difficult (if not impossible) to discern when and how much ink these two colors are used, making its exact cost per page (CPP) a bit elusive. This well-designed app lets you print photos from your camera roll, as well as edit photos for print and apply creative effects to your prints.

In 30-plus years of reviewing photo printers, I have seen many breakthroughs, but there has been one constant throughout: the high costs of the inks used by these printers. The Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8500 Wireless Color All-in-One Supertank Printer is a compact lightweight printer (18. thick; strong support for printing from phones and tablets (in addition to Mac and Windows computers); scan and copy support, as well as economical printing of standard documents. Flexible connections, both wired and wireless, mean it's easy for the whole family to print from mobile devices around the home. It uses an innovative 6-colour ink system (including individual photo black and grey inks) for high quality, low-cost printing, with easy refilling.