Epson EcoTank ET-2850 Wireless Color All-in-One Cartridge-Free Supertank Printer with Scan, Copy and Auto 2-Sided Printing - Black, Medium

The printer arrived in a renewed box, with all the proper tape on all of the pieces. Ink tanks were clean. I got this one because it has a one-year return, and it was 60 bucks cheaper. This is everything I have needed in a printer. I needed automatic 2 sided printing. Check. I needed good connectivity across multiple platforms ( windows 7, 11, xp, and linux, and Iphone, android.) Check. I wanted a permanent print head, but most of all, I wanted to be able to use refillable ink. Check. The bottles that come with it seem large, but so are the individual 4 tanks. I've had some printers that were 4 or 5 colors. Three has been easier, and the picture quality is just fine. When it comes time to refill the ink tanks, I'll simply pour my ink into these bottles, and refill. Screw the "genuine" epson ink. Do you really think that there is a difference? I don't . I have been drilling and refilling ink cartridges for 30 years, and have used the same ink in 3 different brands with no problem. I love that you can do that with this printer...even easier than buying special cartridges to fool the system, or bypassing it in hidden settings on the printer (by law they have to have a setting to shut off the proprietary ink cartridges. Set-up was pretty easy. I discarded the instructions. I had great first time luck filling the tanks, letting it charge the ink, and using the keypad on the front of the printer to connect it to my network first. Then, when I downloaded the software for my computer(s), The software found it easily. This way, was better than the way the software tells you to do it. Same with the phone app. Put the printer on your network first...then let everything find it. The epson app for my android is the first one that actually works with one click to print. Other reviewers have said that this thing paper jams a lot. So far, so good for me. I did have one jam so far. I use heavier weight paper, and I think one corner was bent as I was putting paper in it. This printer will hold a lot (150?) of paper. That's good, but if this thing starts jamming, it'll go back. I'll update if that happens

I came from an HP printer and I got ripped off through their "Instant Ink" program. As a result I will NEVER buy an HP printer again. That being said I did some research to find a new printer (not including HP). The reviews on this one were overall good, and after looking at setup videos on YouTube, I decided this would be the one. Setup was simple. Just follow the instructions. They are basic and step by step. The print quality is very good in both black text and color pictures. The Epson Smart Panel phone app is easy to use. I have an Android phone and I went to the app store and it showed two apps: 1.) Epson Smart Panel, and 2.) Epson iprint. I downloaded both. I've used both as well. On the iprint app it will occasionally give you a message saying to use the Epson Smart Panel app for more functionality, so I uninstalled the iprint app. and exclusively use the Smart Panel App. Filling the tank with the included inks was painless. One drop of black in did fall on the edge of the inlet. I just dabbed it up with a Kleenex. You may want to have some tissues nearby while filling the tanks just to be safe. You will have a little bit of left over ink (by design) after setting up the printer. During setup the printer will "charge" the ink lines that lead to the print head, which uses a little ink. Once the setup is done, use the remainder of the ink in each chamber, and the tanks are full once again.Once drawback so far: Epson says they will increase the one year warranty to two years if you register the printer on their website. I just purchased the printer the week of 12/11/23. After registering the printer online with Epson, it showed a warranty expiration date of 2/6/25. Just over one year. Looking further on their website, it says the warranty period starts after the printer is purchased from the manufacturer. Obviously mine was purchased from a middleman business. If you don't purchase it directly from Epson, apparently that warranty clock starts ticking from when the business who initially purchased it. I bought it off Amazon.So far I'm satisfied with the printer and I consider it a good purchase.

For years, I have been using HP all-in-one printers with disposable cartridges. This one is incredible. I printed two double-sided, full-sized, color work and activity books (A4-sized pages) for my 8-year-old son, and the ink level is around 3/4. If you keep the heads clean, this printer will serve you well.I read some reviews about the low quality of prints with this printer. Well, my experience was just the opposite. So, their experience does not represent the whole; they should be outliers. These people might need to learn more about the printer's preferences for the basic printing rules. Printers print according to what you feed them with. The higher your raw and paper quality, the better the print you'll get. And remember to check the preferences for better print quality as well.One other complaint I read was about the wifi connection. It does not reflect the reality as well. The wifi card on the printer does not lose connection at all. The units these people have might be faulty. That does not mean these devices lose connection. And if you have a stable 2.4GHZ internet wifi router. This printer will keep its connectivity, unlike multiple HP products that I had previously. I had to turn wifi off and on every time I had to print something.The best part is that even the whole set of inks (black and two colors) is cheaper than the entire set of HP cartridges(Black-color).On the other hand, here are three things that are annoying about this printer:1) the paper feed is from the top.2) the LCD screen is too small.3) generating a printing job outside the local network is crappy and glitchy. They need to fire the whole department of software developers in charge of this part of the software solutions. There is no excuse for an internationally sold product's software solution to be this glitchy.