However, the six-ink/photo-optimized G series Pixma (the G620 Wireless MegaTank Photo All-in-One) prints photos for about the same cost as the ET-8500, as does the Smart Tank Plus 651. Quoted yields may vary depending on the images that you are printing, the paper type that you are using, the frequency of your prints and environmental conditions such as temperature. Print photos, copy documents, set up and troubleshoot your Epson EcoTank ET-8500 printer, and let your creativity flow with a wide range of artistic templates!

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. as real users, posing a threat to a site’s security, so the site sometimes runs random security checks.Personal Stationery – You can print “Design Paper”, “Ruled Paper” (which includes grid-style graph paper and music staff paper), “Writing Papers” (which is stationery paper), “Schedule”, and “Calendar” sheets.

Additionally, most printed documents look decent but the text is not as clean and precise as that of a laser printer. It uses an innovative 6-colour ink system (including individual photo black and grey inks) for high quality, low-cost printing, with easy refilling.

If you’re just starting out, and haven’t really printed before, the Epson EcoTank printer is an excellent starter printer. Gray helps with full color images, as well as with grayscale photo prints (more on this below), and when printing on plain paper. As has been the case with other recent Epson inkjets, setting up the ET-8500 is relatively simple, and Epson provides clear documentation to get you up and running with minimal trouble. Mopria is a simple solution created to enable seamless printing from Android devices to any Mopria-certified printer.

During the initialization process, the app asked if I wanted to connect the printer to WiFi, so I was able to complete that process and then waited for the initialization process to finish. ET-8550 users who will print more at 11″x14″ or 13″x19″ will obviously need to replace inks earlier than users of the ET-8500. There are also a wide variety of third-party apps available to enable wireless printing through Apple devices, even to machines that are not natively AirPrint compatible printers.bit, 64-bit), Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows Vista® (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows XP SP3 or later (32-bit), Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 or later, Windows Server 2003 SP2 or later, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, Mac OS X 10. But, as is the case with the glossy output, unless you’re a fine-art photographer, you’re not going to feel that the ET-8500 is holding you back, at least with respect to the quality of the prints. Epson’s Velvet Fine Art, for example, produced lovely prints with fine detail, as did Epson’s Premium Matte paper. Building off the success and versatility of their predecessors, the Epson ET-8500 and ET-8550 EcoTank Printers offers a range of upgrades that elevate this printer, providing higher-quality prints, a more intuitive operation system, even more creative media options, and a smaller overall footprint. Like most Epson printers, the ET-8500 provides several connectivity methods: USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Wi-Fi Direct.

I did profile their Exhibition Fiber paper, a soft gloss fiber-based paper that I use quite frequently, as well as their Legacy Fibre, an ultra-high-end cotton fiber paper with a matte finish. The Epson EcoTank ET-8500 is an exceptional consumer grade photo printer with all-in-one features, especially if you don’t see yourself or a family member scanning or copying more than one or two pages at a time. The bottles are keyed to their specific color and have some sort of valve in the stem to prevent spills, and the tanks are labelled clearly. Credit is provided by Novuna Personal Finance, a trading style of Mitsubishi HC Capital UK PLC, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.Quoted ink bottle photo yields are extrapolated based on the ISO/IEC 29103 pattern with Epson’s methodology printing photos in 10x15cm format, and NOT based on ISO/IEC 29102. By removing the Light Cyan and Light Magenta, Epson was able to include the Pigment Black ink and Photo Grey. Epson has really improved upon the process of filling the ink tanks in their latest EcoTank printers. For the next test, I timed the ET-8500 as it printed our colorful and complex Adobe Acrobat documents, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with accompanying charts and graphs, and PowerPoint presentation handouts full of brightly colored, detailed graphics and text in varying weights and styles.