The Epson Smart Panel app gives you even more control from your smartphone and adds functionality such as templates for greetings cards. In previous printers I’ve looked at, the distinction between pigment inks and dye based inks was clear. The app even has a power button so you can turn the printer on and off remotely, and it also tells you how much ink you have left.

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Epson iPrint makes printing easy and convenient whether your printer is in the next room or across the world. He is also an encyclopedia when it comes to all manner of cameras, camera holsters and bags, flashguns, tripods and heads, printers, papers and inks, and just about anything imaging-related. About 35 photo prints, about 1/4 of which are 12×18”, along with 25 pages or so of office printing (including numerous pages with photographs), have dropped the ink levels by about 1/8 tank from where they were when the printer finished charging the lines. If you don’t want to connect with Wi-Fi, there’s an Ethernet port, or you can hook it straight up to a PC via USB. After setting up the printer, it’s worth running through the head alignment process to optimise print quality.So, if someone on a forum tells you a paper is ‘great’ and hasn’t tried it with the 8550, take the advice with a suitable pinch of salt. You need to lock the print head and carry it level once it’s full of ink, and Epson provides a plastic bag in case of accident. The main tray takes just over 100 sheets of plain paper – not huge, but once again more than enough for my would be use of printing the odd invoice or letter.

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The ET-8500 and ET-8550 printers are designed for creative enthusiasts who are looking for a range of premium features and media print types as well as having the luxury of being able to have a low-cost, high-yield everyday document printer.This is subject to the value of the additional products not exceeding the value of the qualifying product.

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Epson Software Updater allows you to update Epson software as well as download 3rd party applications.picoliters, they can use the smallest droplet to substitute for light cyan, light magenta and perhaps an additional gray. Maybe if I was using an i1Studio/Colormunki/ccstudio – but I only ever got near that when I need to do a review of it. You can use your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to easily print via Airprint without the need to install drivers or configure the printer queue.

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It has a remarkably small footprint for a 13x 19” photo printer, not much larger than many letter-sized photo printers. I can’t offer any good guide to ink usage, given the very varied nature of printing/testing I do, however after a lot of prints, the ink levels had not moved very much – yes it is almost certainly quite a bit cheaper to run than many other desktop printers I’ve looked at. It is slightly disappointing that the scanner is only A4 sized, but it does make very accurate photocopies thanks to the high resolution of both printer and scanner.The balance of the finance agreement is payable directly to Novuna Consumer Finance in equal monthly instalments by monthly direct debit. Do you know if there’s a workaround other than resetting up all my images in Word or upgrading my Adobe products? Other than this upper limit of paper thickness, we experienced no other misprints or paper jams and would say that overall it handles all kinds of paper very well.