Epson EcoTank ET-3850 A4 Multifunction Wi-Fi Ink Tank Printer, with Up to 3 Years of Ink Included

Printing blank pages

... gerne wieder und habe das Gerrät immer noch und läuft ohne Klagen. Benutze es ca. 1 x im Monat

Great product and a good price

Commande reçue hier. Imprimante très facile à installer grâce à une application à installer sur Smartphone. Pilotes imprimante, fax, scanner sous Windows 10 sont installés grâce au combo téléchargé depuis chez Epson. IMPORTANT : Cette imprimante commandée chez AMAZON France arrive directement d'Angleterre et est donc livrée avec un câble d'alimentation à brochage Anglais. Heureusement j'avais un vieux câble Epson brochage Français, ce qui m'a permis de démarrer l'imprimante. Après contact avec AMAZON France, rien ne peux être fait car la machine n'est pas disponible chez AMAZON France . C'est donc au client de s'acheter un adapteur prise Anglaise pour prise Française !!!!!!!

I've just received an Epson ET-4850 printer with scanner and document feeder after years of HP printers being my go-to. First impressions, thumbs up for the easy instructions on initial set-up like filling the ink tanks for the first time, very clean and you can see the ink level. No more crazy expensive cartridges and the ink bottles give you 70ml (colour bottle with more in the black colour bottle) which is taken up on first set-up, so you will need to think about ordering some spare bottles as your ink gets used up. I have and the 3 colour and 1 black genuine Epson ink bottles cost me £34.00, which is way cheaper than the small amount of ink you get in cartridges. I'd say don't go for the super cheap replica ink as it will certainly be adulterated and your print quality will be poor. When it came time to try printing I hit a snag and the printer would not release print jobs from the printer history, turns out the printer driver was version 1 and what was needed was driver 2 which I downloaded from the Epson site, it took a bit of finding out but got there in the end, but still wouldn't print or scan, went online for some general assistance and was instructed to check the printer spooler and set it to automatic, did this turned computer and printer off and on again and finally could print out and scan fine. Size-wise its nice and compact, quite expensive compared to other printers but I'm hoping it will be worth it!

First time I have ventured into printing with refillable ink and I must say I am very impressed. I have had many Epson printers all with cartridges. I have always bought compatible ones and have constantly dodged warnings, naggings and refusing to print because of it, and they never lasted that long anyway. This is a game changer. The reservoir is huge compared to the cartridges offering up to 72 cartridges worth (they say) of ink. And you get this included with your order. Even when pricing original Epson ink it will work out cheaper and no nagging. Plus, you are doing your bit for the environment and giving the manufacturer all the money to invest. True the printer is a lot dearer but will work out just as cheap or cheaper if you are keeping it for the duration. The actual filling with ink is a doddle. The bottles have been ingeniously designed from the ground up to fit each tank individually. They don’t spill and the ink stops flowing when enough ink is in the tank. I was a bit apprehensive about doing this initially but it’s easy and not messy in the slightest. Epson have put a lot of effort into setting up their EcoTank models. You can install it perfectly and easily from new by downloading the setup APP to your smartphone. This communicates with the printer from the outset and expertly guides you through the whole initial set up process with pictures and confirmations at each stage. Leaving you with an initialised product ready for connection to your computer. This to is easy as it links itself to a specific setup page just for the model and does all the work for you just by responding to the questions. Mine was a Windows 11 installation. Very clever and very simple. It all takes a bit of time but patience is a virtue. The new software is good too. One example is organising scans from the scanner. The software is intuitive. Organising pages is easy and it can even intelligently rotate pages. This more or less does away with spending a lot more on double sided scanning as there is so little effort in just popping the pages back on the ADF knowing there is minimal effort needed for sorting. It takes up a small footprint for the amount it does. It is relatively light as well. It does feel a little plasticky but I don’t think so much so that it will fall apart. It just appears functional and is. The screen is small and is not touch meaning you have to keep pressing buttons and then okaying. Shame I would have loved the touch screen so much better. Also, when you lift the scanner unit it only holds in place when you force it upward so that it locks. I found this nerve racking as I thought it might break, I am sure this could be better manufactured. I will not be printing photos on it. For me it is meant for office type documents and they have all printed really well so far. It prints double sided also. I am more than happy to give anything I print to anyone who I believe should find it much more than acceptable. I do use decent paper. Perhaps the only down side is it seems to be a little slow in everything it does. Don’t get me wrong in no way a deal breaker for me but if you were in the office and want everything at speed then perhaps another model may better suit. I note some people are reporting a WiFi issue mine worked straight away although I cannot know yet whether this will come to haunt me. But there is the 5 year warranty which Epson are currently offering on their EcoTank models. Overall, I am extremely pleased so far. Far better than my Epson’s of old in terms of hardware, ink printing and software. A great upgrade. At this stage I am glad I bought it. My major gripe was Amazon reducing the price 2 days after I bought it.