Epson EcoTank ET-2860 Ink Tank Printer | Busy Home Use | Wireless | A4 | Print, Copy, Scan | Includes up to 3 Years of Ink

We decided to buy an ink tank printer as we'd already wasted far too much money on cartridges. This one was replacing a HP Envy 6032e. I didn't really consider going for a HP ink tank printer as I've had 4 HP WiFi printers over the years and all of them have suffered with WiFi issues (occasionally just refuse to print over WiFi and require driver re-installs and other time wasting fixes (which my HP accredited tech support Son has had to deal with). My Granddaughter has an Epson WF printer she uses for working from home and she told me it's been faultless and advised me to go with Epson. At the time of purchase the ET-2860 was £180 (annoyingly, 2 days after delivery there was a voucher for £10 off that price). Installation via USB is very easy, pretty much plug and play. Installation over WiFi on a Windows PC was a little bit of a faff but nothing majorly difficult. The PC was connected to the router via a physical network cable, while trying to install the printer the software kept saying it couldn't detect the printer. The suggestions to fix it were a bit sparse. As the PC also has WiFi, I decided to disconnect the network cable and try again with the PC connected via WiFi. Problem fixed, the software now detected the printer and installed it without any other issues. Once done, changing all the printer settings etc was no different to pretty much all other printers. Filling the ink tanks is quick and simple. The one thing to watch out for is the fact the attachments on all the bottles is the same so you can accidentally put the wrong colour inks in the tanks, just make sure you double check you're putting it in the right tank and you'll be fine. Print quality is pretty good, text and diagrams etc are sharp. Photo's are pretty good but it wouldn't match up to a printer aimed at high quality photo printing. I printed a photo on some 240gsm semi-glossy paper, the printer had no trouble with the papers weight (it's rated for up to 300gsm) and the printed image was rather good. Colours weren't quite a match for what was on the screen (not as vibrant) but that was more likely to do with my monitors colour settings. Even so, the photo still looked quite nice. I've no doubt some image editing would improve the colours of the printed photo. The only part of the photo that didn't look very good were scenes with blocks of dark gradients (like a large body of water on a dull day). It's didn't look bad and from from more than a foot away you probably wouldn't even notice. The scanner is OK, much like the scanner on any other printer these days. Easily good enough for copying documents and photo's with good accuracy. Like other scanners, set the dpi to the higher settings and it will take a quite while. After the printer was installed I was looking at the features etc, Epson have 2 different sections on their site for templates. I was surpised at how many they had and how varied they were. All sorts of craft projects, birthday/etc cards, photo frames, wrapping papers (obviously for small items with this printer seeing as it's A4). I'm going to have lots of fun with that as I do like making my own cards and things. If HP have anything like that they don't go out of their way to make it easy to find. Overall I'm very happy with the printer. The only things it lacks which you would expect on printers in this price range is a paper tray (which I prefer to rear tray feeding) and automatic duplex. I'm not taking away any stars for those as I knew that before buying. I did consider the ET-2850 as it does have auto-duplex but it was £70 more and I don't need it enough to warrant the the extra cost (the 2850 also still has rear loading paper, if it also had a proper tray I may have bought it - hope you're listening Epson, many people prefer a tray). My £70 HP 6032e that this replaced had both auto-duplex and a proper paper tray, the only other real different between the HP and this Epson is the ink takes so it is a large expense for a printer that effectively has less features. Over time the Epson will of course cost less as replacing the inks is massively cheaper (I did have a HP Instant Ink subsription but paying per page rather than how much ink you use only works out worthwhile if you're covering the pages in ink, which I don't often do - especially as we print a lot of A6 postage labels). Knowing the future ink cost savings I think this is a worthwhile investment. My Son wants to do sublimation printer and apparenty Epson EcoTank printers are the best value for that too.

I bought this printer not entirely sure that it would be able to print photos at all but it turns out it really excels at it. There is a specific setting for printing on glossy photo paper, so be sure to set that in your print options (and actually use glossy photo paper, otherwise that defeats the purpose) and as long as your image is high resolution, you'll get some really great photo prints. The only thing to note is that A4 photo prints are very slow. They take about 2 minutes each. This is my first time with a wireless printer too and for anyone who hasn't already got one, it really is revolutionary. After setting up the printer, I was using my phone and my laptop to print photos over WiFi with ease. Speaking of setup, there's an Epson app which makes the setup process a walk in the park. The printer setup takes longer than I expected it to but it was very easy to follow along with using the app. Long story short, setup is a breeze, photo printing quality is great but slow, and printing via WiFi is so convenient. I can't speak for ink efficiency just yet but I'm really, really happy with this purchase.

Just spent an hour setting up. Was good I found it easy and got it connected to my laptop with ease. Only took me that long as read everything and went step by step. Couldn't register my printer but think its done when you set up with my mobile but cant confirm that and spent another 20min looking for support on registering my printer. But cant find anything. Think why it doesn't register is because its already done through my phone. So printed of few photos and documents just to try and very happy with print quality. Only thing I cant find any info on is the 3 years ink. Come with the 4 colours. Each bottle 65ml. Cant see that lasting 3 years but also cant find how you would get 3 years worth. Maybe someone can help me with that. Loading tanks very easy impressed with that. Packaged very well. Amazon asks in the order if you want it delivered in its own box direct to you or put in a Amazon box. Ask ticked pack in Amazon box for double protection. So far very happy with this item.

I bought the Epson ET-2860 thinking I was getting a straightforward home printer. Ink tank, sensible running costs, bit of printing, bit of scanning, lovely. Simple. Manageable. A printer, basically. What I actually got was a small white box of wireless resentment. The main problem is the Wi-Fi setup. The printer has no screen, which would be fine if the setup process was beautifully clear. It is not. It is a strange little ritual involving buttons, flashing lights, WPS, Wi-Fi Direct, the Epson app, possibly a USB cable, and a growing sense that I have somehow offended the gods of office equipment. Because there is no screen, there is no obvious way to enter a Wi-Fi password directly on the printer. So unless your router’s WPS works perfectly, or you are willing to install the app, or you happen to have the right USB cable lying around, you are left faffing about trying to work out what mode the printer is in based on blinking lights. Which is, frankly, ridiculous. I did not buy a printer so I could become a lighthouse interpreter. Wi-Fi Direct is not much better. In theory, it should let a PC or laptop connect directly to the printer. In practice, it is unclear how to make the printer discoverable, where the network is supposed to appear, what the password is, and what to do when nothing shows up. The support material does not explain this well enough for a normal human being who just wants to print a document without entering a prolonged emotional hostage situation. The documentation is the part that really gets me. For a printer with no screen, Epson should provide incredibly clear, step-by-step support for setup without the app, setup without WPS, Wi-Fi Direct, USB setup, and troubleshooting when the printer simply does not appear. Instead, the guidance feels scattered, incomplete, and far too dependent on trial and error. “Press this button until something flashes” is not documentation. It is a dare. The actual printer may be perfectly fine once it is connected. The EcoTank system is still appealing, because cheaper ink costs are obviously a good thing. But that does not excuse how poor the initial setup experience is. A home printer should not require this much detective work before it becomes usable. Overall, I am genuinely disappointed. The ET-2860 might be a good printer trapped inside a badly explained setup process, but that still makes it a frustrating product to own. Epson needs to provide proper documentation and a much clearer wireless setup method for people who do not want to install an app, do not have reliable WPS, and do not enjoy decoding flashing lights like some kind of underpaid IT goblin. I would not recommend this model to anyone who wants easy wireless setup from PCs and laptops. Unless you enjoy printer-based suffering, in which case, congratulations, this little bastard has range.

The Epson ET-2860 is an excellent ink tank printer, scanner and copier and, at the time of purchase, the cheapest ink tank unit available on Amazon. I have purchased two (one for a relative). Setting up was very easy - connected to an iPhone via wifi and to a MacBook Air via both cable and router wifi. Ink tank filling was simple and straight forward. Printing speed is good, although not the fastest. It is not a duplex (double-sided) printer, although printing odd number pages and then re-feeding to print even number pages is no hardship. (Reading reviews of duplex printers, it would appear that they just have more to go wrong with paper jamming.) My previous printer was a very reliable Epson Stylus SX200 inkjet cartridge printer, now obsolete due to the current macOS. I am a fan of Epson; I have refused for years to purchase any HP products after purchasing an HP Pavilion TX1020ea laptop which rapidly became a brick due to a known video chip problem and HP told me to take a long walk off a short pier…

I don't do reviews often but this printer is so good I wanted to share. I had a HP inkjet printer for years and was constantly buying expensive cartridges for it. We don't print that often so the cartridges would dry out and would have to buy new ones. I researched a lot before buying this Epson ecotank printer and have been very impressed! It comes with 3 years of ink which is very easy to fill. No more expensive cartridges! It takes a little while to set up but once up and running it's so easy to use, really quick printing, and quality is exceptional. Just remember to print at least one page a week to keep printer heads from drying out. Best printer I've ever owned and amazing value!

The printer works well enough. Sometimes it loses connection mid printing which wastes ink and paper but that may be down to the internet reliability rather than the printer. I have also found that sometimes the print head snags the paper causing black ink splodges across the images and curled corners. I use this for sublimation and 99% of the time it works perfectly.

This replaced an Epson EcoTank ET-2500 that was (and still is working). Unfortunately when the internal ink pad reached saturation after 6 years of use, the printer no longer played ball and effectively means EOL (end of life) or at best, the part they don't tell you about, an uneconomical replacement by Epson of the pad and a WIC reset (waste ink counter) in software. This was not an option for me as the printer has been discontinued. Although loathed to simply throw away the printer I needed a replacement fast and so purchased this one. In that interim six year period this one is decidedly flimsier than the ET-2500 with incredibly thin panels. I am no stranger to Macs but this ET-2860 took an age to finally get my network to recognise having followed the procedure religiously after filling. Multiple transitioning between the ink and paper alert lights despite both being loaded with ink and paper until... it finally played ball, settled down and connected to the network and the iPhone. Suffice it to say the setup is a logistical nightmare and needs to be streamlined as there are too many unresolved variables if things don't go right. A thing like a printer should take minutes to get up and running but this one was a big pain. Although another reviewer said this is not an AirPrint compatible printer it doesn't really need to be, as you can download Epsons free Smart Panel app for printing and scanning from the iPhone. It's all working fine now as it should, so whether this one lasts as long as six years remains to be seen but slapped wrists for Epson for not making my 'old' printer economical to replace a simple part and so prolonging the life of a perfectly good product.

Do not hesitate to get this. So far, I have had it for about 6 months, and it scans well and prints much better than the HP. Yes, certainly happy with this product. Main reason I bought it: the Canon was costing me around 90 Euros a Year, and that was just the Ink. I do not print that much; I mean, very little compared to most. So my daughter recommended this, and this review confirms what she said: best Value for money at the time of buying. I will never change brands again.

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Excellent product. Easy to set up and the app makes it easy to use

Highly recommended. This printer is the business. Very easy set up within the app. Comes with the ink so that’s a bonus. Have loaded it with paper and is printing perfect. I’m going to buy another one to use as a sublimation on machine. Really happy with purchase.

Most of the time it's showing not connecting to wifi. It's very difficult to print if there is any urgent need. Not at all recommended.