Epson EcoTank ET-8500 Print/Scan/Copy Wi-Fi Photo Ink Tank Printer, With Up To 2 Years Worth Of Ink Included

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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). Using Epson Connect, you can also set up an “Approved senders list” thus restricting who can print to your printer. The first test entailed clocking the ET-8500 as it printed a one-sided 25-page Microsoft Word text document.

Ink Shelf Life: The ink bottles that come with the printer have an expiration date of March or April of 2027 and should not be used after that date.Not initially loaded during initial software load but i found later and installed easily was the Epson Print Layout utility ( link ), i thought this was only a utility for higher end printers but it works fine with IOS and Win10. I printed most of my photos using the Epson Smart Panel app (available for Android and iOS) because all my photos are on my phone. Just tap on the “Print Photos” button (shown in the first screenshot above), select the file location of the photo you would like to print (from Camera, Screenshots, Downloads, images from your texting apps, etc. Epson Smart Panel and Epson Creative Print require a wireless connection and the Epson printing apps. Paper handling consists of a 100-sheet plain paper drawer and, inside of that, a 20-sheet insert for snapshot-size (4-by-6 inch or 5-by-7-inch) photo paper.

To my eye, there wasn’t a lot of difference between Fine and Best Quality, especially with regard to black-and-white documents—Best Quality often took four times longer than Fine to print. Yet another feature of both the ET-8500 and ET-8550 is the addition of Epson Smart Panel app compatibility. Note : Uninstall Center cannot uninstall Easy Photo Print, Print CD and all other SW installed by VISE X.or later, MS Windows Server 2003 SP2 or later, MS Windows 7 (32/64 bits), MS Windows XP 32-bit Edition SP3 or later, Windows 8 (32/64-bits), Windows 8. After working in-depth with the letter-size model, the ET-8500, for the past few months, I will say that these printers truly are the most exciting photo printers I have come across in a long time. I have been using the auto duplex function from both my desktop (via setting in the print dialog) and mobile (via Android) since day one with no issues. Despite these papers being designed for pigment prints, I was delighted with the few prints I made on them. This is subject to the value of the additional products not exceeding the value of the qualifying product.