Epson ET 8550 printer review. Functionality, features and print quality of the 13" A3+ EcoTank model

hi my name is keith cooper and this video is a review of the epson et 8550 printer and this is a a3 plus printer so 13 inch width it will print sheet sizes up to 13 inch by 19 inch which is a3 plus and it will do longer sheets as well and all kinds of other sizes as well in the video i'm going to be looking at different aspects of how the printer works how it performs the results you get from it do have a look at the timeline i've added to the video description so you can jump to parts that are perhaps of more interest to you because i appreciate that there's a lot to cover and a lot of these things may not be of interest to some people but there may be some particular aspects so have a look at that jump through to the relevant part of the video where it is there's also a written article which has more technical details there's info about that in the description of the video so with a link through to there on the north light images site and i have done lots of other videos looking at specific aspects of making prints so some of these prints here i've got specific ones looking at say for example extra long prints like that but anyway let's dive into it and see what the printer is well you can see the the thing itself um what's special about this printer it's the inks um special it's different it's certainly different from any other printer i've looked at now i've reviewed printers for years um i don't tend to go much smaller than this and i do printers up to large format size so 44 inch even 60 inch printers i've done i can get a 24-inch printer in this space for it and have done some in the past so if you're interested in larger format printers have a look on the northlight images website because that's where all my reviews there though they pre-date me making videos very well as i said the inks this has ink tanks in it now these i can see the levels physically see the levels of ink in the different tanks here at the front and the ink comes in bottles now there's 70 ml of ink in each bottle from filling you will get some left over which you can use to top off now during the initialization process and i have another video that looks at an article looking at initializing and setting up this printer during that process you load up the inks the just some test prints it gets loaded into the print heads and the ink levels go down a bit i've found that there's more than enough in these to top off the tanks afterwards however when i see topping off the tanks like this i can physically see the levels here and i could see them on my computer if i look at the printer driver i could see the ink levels the printer has no way of actually measuring what the ink level is here it knows when it's full and it knows how much ink it's used in printing and the occasional cleaning or anything else that you've done borderless print overspray it knows how much ink has gone through the printhead and it uses that to calculate what it thinks the level is that means that if i was to top up this one here and this is the magenta ink so that one there if i was to top that ink up and you access the inks through here there's a top up points underneath this little panel if i was to top that up the printer would have no way of knowing i've done that so if you top it up make sure to go through the procedure on the screen here to say that you've filled up a particular ink you don't want to be running out of ink doesn't do inkjet printers any good to run out of ink and you know how much ink is there you're not wasting any so you can use this little bit left this isn't waste ink or anything this can go back into the into the printer there whilst talking about inks the print head here which obviously moves it back and forth to do the printing has a little blue tab on it that's the printer lock printer headlock if you're going to be transporting the printer moving it much anywhere where it could get shaken moved much lock this before switching off there is procedure it mentions on the screen here and it's got written all over the place reminders to lock this before moving and that is important because of the way the inks work with the amount of ink you've got in these tanks here if you tipped it up and moved it like that you could get ink could drain out and you could get ink come out um it could get inside the printer or worse still it could drip out the bottom somewhere which you don't really want now this printer also has i just mentioned except that it open here a small maintenance cart that goes here it flips out comes out small cart it gets partly filled when you initialize the printer and it gets occasionally filmed from over spray and from cleanings it should last quite a long while so i wouldn't recommend rushing out and having a spare ready you're going to get a lot of print out of these inks here there's quite a lot of inks here you've got six inks and that's wise now whilst i mentioned the inks one other unusual feature of this printer this is one of the reasons i was interested to have a look at it because i wanted to see could i get good quality pictures now this does all kinds of office functions as well all kinds of other stuff which i'm frankly not interested in and i'm not going to go into you can read the specs and the blurb for the printer if you're interested in its performance for as an office printer it does work well but with these inks i've got the normal cyan magenta yellow inks that's great they're colors they're colored dyes there's a gray ink as well which is a diluted black which can be used to improve the tonality in your prints and it's used for gradations to give smoother look to a print so it's it's a useful thing also comes in with black and white but i'm getting ahead of yourself now we've got photo black ink which is normal dye black ink we also have a pigment black ink now the pigment black ink the two blacks they're both black why have two blacks well it depends on the paper surface you're using pigment ink for example works straight if i've got i've got copier paper in this cart at the front here i've got paper there and i just want to print documents black text pigment ink works well on those pigment inks work pigment black works well on some art papers but if i were to try and use pigment ink on some photo papers there's always a possibility it would rub off and you have dye based inks now pigment ink based printers themselves have a matte black and a photo black which are two different types of pigment in this one this is not the same as having a photo black and a matte black you have got a pigment black and a dye black now come back to this when i look at print quality and print color management and all other aspects of how prints look and how the printer performs but suffice to say this makes quite a difference and makes this printer different in performance from purely dye based or purely pigment based inks that reflects on paper choices it reflects on profiling i'll set up all kinds of things what it means is that done well i can get some very nice looking prints done badly i can get some pretty awful looking prints it's all about how you set things up and uh needs a bit of care mainly picking the right sorts of papers and the right settings for printing but i'll come back to that a bit later getting ahead of yourself there i whilst i've got this open um you can it doesn't stop printing if you lift it to see the print i wouldn't normally um suggest running like that but that's the main top of the printer i put that back um the actual mid lifts up and we've got a scanner and i'll come back for scanning in a bit because that's potentially quite useful as well and i have used it for some some testing but uh there we go that's the inks now the printer has several different ways of getting media through it the most obvious one as i've got it set up here is the rear feed here and that folds in there comes there we go that's what i've used for almost all of these prints in fact looking around yes i've used that for all of these prints including these two long ones um obviously where i've got it set up here the long sheets wouldn't you need a bit of space to be able so you do need a bit of space at the back for using that except with larger sheets of paper a3 plus goes through easily you can easily put a few sheets in i had no feed problems with the printer at all through the back here it it works fine other paper inputs now we've got at the front here a cassette which i've got a4 copier paper in that is where you would load stuff for normal document printing it's quite good it works well there's a duplexer unit so you can print double-sided now it says in the specs you can put photo paper here now the photo papers i tried were better quality ones and were a bit too thick perhaps for this they really did not like going through the duplexer unit at the back which remember tate is going to take the paper in going this direction reverse it to come out the other direction under the print head and come out here it really didn't like it so i would say office printing great photo printing maybe if you've got thin cheap photo paper double-sided yeah maybe it will do that as well but i certainly wouldn't want to waste much paper trying it one other thing we've got here is a cd tray you could load the cd in that feed that in slot here takes a cd in it will print it out it comes and there you go make sure you've got printable cds or dvds though because non-printable ones or some types the ink won't dry properly in the moment you pick the thing up it will smudge off on your fingers just the way they work with that but i think those are the two main paper feeds there's the small paper feed here now this one is for small photo paper now the photo paper i tried once again was just a bit too thick for this um it went in and it stayed somewhere in the mechanism in the back here now fortunately you can take the duplexer unit out the back and it's easy to fix jams and the likes but so that's for also for small paper it says six before 10 by 15 centimeters so it's smaller but you can get thin paper that should work okay for this but it's not something i'd normally use i prefer feeding things in through this slot here it's what i do with almost every other printer the feed here this is great for document printing i would not likely use it at all let's put the card in there properly and that goes i would not use it for that there is one other feed available and that is if i take i'm not going to turn this round check but there's a video showing how to do this this is a straight through feed path at the back for printing things like board so i have this is on epson a3 plus enhanced matte board it is solid this won't feed this needs a straight through feed bath this goes in the back has come through come out the front and has printed just fine now according to epson specifications it should handle media up to two meters long however i have been unable to find any suppliers of 13 inch by six foot board that will go through this um if somebody can find me some i'll see whether it goes through the printer okay but um i think probably not but uh yeah really useful that on the occasional print now once again i've printed that it's that epson enhanced matte is the surface there so i've treated it as if i were just printing on ordinary matte paper so there's your paper feeds uh a couple here one there one at the back uh all seem to work say but do be careful though with you trying to use thicker papers through this feed at the front here because the reversing through the duplex unit the display here is actually asking me what paper is set in the uh in the cartridge here on the cassette and it helps i find to set the paper type here just as an extra reminder what you're using even if you're just feeding it in through the top here to set it here the size and the type and it's just like a double check when you're printing that you've got the right sort it should print fine otherwise you don't necessarily need to do it but certainly if you're printing directly from here this needs to be set with the particular type sorry coming to the various controls for it uh the screen is a let's go back to there it's been asking me for paper types which is i always set your paper types i've got several options here and it does all kinds of fancy printing options you know calendars multi-photo layouts all kinds of stuff you can do directly you can use it as a copier so with the scanner on top you can just put something in and copy straight through onto a copy of paper here it'll do color as well does depend on media obviously obviously copier paper is not going to give you great color reproduction but you can do it you can use it for quick copies the touchscreen here works well no problems in using it one thing i would say about the controls is that i'm not going to demo this is that i can load these up on my phone this is iphone se 20 i believe um there's an epson control panel i can use and i can do almost all the functions i can do here from the phone you can even use it for setup well that's interesting i tested it it works but um the only actual use i found for it was when i was sitting in the other room remembering that i'd left the printer switched on and using this to switch it off so yeah about as well maybe you can find uses for it i would say in regard to mobile phones though in terms of photos you can print directly from your phone to here but the problem with phones is they're not color managed um the the whole infrastructure around handling phone pictures is not conducive to the best quality images what i would do if i'm taking if i want to print something if i've got a nice photo with this and i want to make a print of it and i should be able to make prints this size of this phone if i've got that i will take the image from there put it through the computer have a look at it set up all my printing controls and everything then and print from the computer great for printing snaps if you're not bothered about precise color or anything like that then use your phone but if you want to use print get good quality prints from your phone go viral computer um they're on the way but they're not yeah not there yet saying goes for tablets and the like uh your opinions may differ on the utility of phones for this um i'm more bothered about the image quality than that but whatever now in the controls i've got here there's also other stuff i should should mention these there are tons of office type and consumer type functions so i can print these with some prints i did the other day so i can print multiple pictures in an album i can put stripes around it i can print calendars i can print to-do lists and all things this is all the sort of stuff you expect from an all-in-one style home printer and this if that's what you want this will do that fine now i don't have precise timings of how quickly it prints or any of stuff like that i can't even tell you how many prints you'll get for ink fill because i do such varied testing i don't necessarily get meaningful results in that respect so you get a lot of printing from it but you're gonna have to wait until more people have done more precise testing on this to get an actual realistic idea of what sort of numbers of prints you're going to get from your ink whether photo prints or ordinary printing but you know it works very well now i covered connecting this up in the video i did about setup and there's also an article on the site about setup basically i've got usb or ethernet connection at the back or this is currently set to use wireless and the setup was very easy you can use as i said you can do it via a phone if need be um there's a simple instructions for it it sets up really easy it found the when i configured the computer it found the printer set the connection up so this is sitting there on wireless i can connect to it directly from a phone or i can connect as it would here the phone is on the network this is on the network the phone goes through the network to talk to this just depends how you want to set things up some other items are that you have at the front here a usb socket that's a pick bridge one and an sd card socket now you can if you put any memory device here if you plug a card in or a memory stick in here this will act as a server on your network so i put memory stick here and on my laptop suddenly i noticed a new server appeared and this memory stick was mounted as a device on a network so i could transfer files from the laptop to this memory stick here i can print from the memory stick i can scan from here to the memory there are all kinds of ways you can do it think of it as attachable storage i've not looked at how fast it is or anything like that but it's an option you can use if you use memory sticks for moving things around there's an option for it that works out on my mac and it also works on pcs as well where it will appear as um as a server and they there you've got stuff for it so let's cover the basics of the physical side of the printer getting paper into it and things like that what about getting good results from your printing well first up color management it's an essential aspect of getting good quality prints out it's getting prints that hopefully match to a large extent what you see on your screen and produces pictures that you like now i've got lots of other videos looking at aspects of printing and i won't go into the detailed setup of print dialogues and things like that but as part of my testing i make a lot of custom profiles now these custom profiles they'll be listed in the written article and they are available if you email me at the norflight site saying precisely which ones you want of the ones i've got because the profiles are only relevant to particular papers you can't mix and match profiles you can't say well this profile is of a similar sort of paper so i'll use that now the epson software when it installs the driver and everything actually installs quite a few profiles for epson papers and they're generally very good now i make profiles by printing test sheets like this as you can see they've got lots of colored patches on them i read those colored patches using some fancy equipment it processes the numbers does the math and out comes an icc printer profile this is what you use to make icc printer profiles it's the sort of thing that anyone who makes printer profiles will use something similar to this they may not use sheets as large as this but that's just yeah because i can and i've got the equipment for it once i've got a color profile i use that in my printing software now i've used in quite a lot of examples epson print layout the epson print layout software is free it's excellent software it does does what it says on the tin it handles print layout so you take an image now i can feed the image to it directly from photoshop or it works standalone you can load images you can do multiple shots you can do all kinds of different options with it as well but the important bit is allows you to select your profiles now this is for color printing i i've come to black and white in a minute because there are some important differences there but anyway i've made all these profiles and one of the first things i always do any white testing profile on any paper is do a test print now the test print here this top half of the image here is available on the norflight images website um i've got articles about how to use these test images and things and what to look for in them but basically the idea is that if you've got a new paper and you've got a profile for it the first thing you should print with that should be a test image not one of your own photos because one of your own photos could have all kinds of other things in it it has an emotional attachment it means something to you you have a feeling you know what it should look like go for a test image not your image the faults here the reason there are lots of little bits of picture in this they all show different potential faults now i also include a version of this and for larger paper let's say the normal thing will fit on an a4 i include one of my pictures here because i know the tones and colors in this particular image are tricky to reproduce now i've printed this hundreds of times so i know what it should look like in different paper with different papers and different styles of printing remember that because the difference you get from using different papers profiling is not aiming to make them all look the same profiling is aiming to give you the best results for that particular paper with your particular ink and printer so just because you're using profiles you shouldn't expect prints to look the same on different papers they won't this is quite a warm paper this is quite a cool paper so i can see differences here i'm not sure how clear these will be in the video but i can see differences here in the tone and that comes from the paper as much as anything so when you're picking papers do think about the tone as well now i'll come back to picking papers later on but the key bit is you need profiles for them now good paper suppliers will often supply profiles now i'm hoping that paper suppliers will see the opportunity for this printer and start producing profiles for it if they don't then some other paper profile paper suppliers several in the uk i know of will if you buy a pack of paper they will send you a test target a smaller version of this that you print out send back to them and they will send you a custom profile that's the absolute best way of getting things done you get a custom profile for your printer your inks whatever and that's sorted for that so that's colour management uh it's very important in getting good results because colour management if you if if you think well hang on i've got a profile for particular paper but on a different printer no good i'm afraid i mentioned earlier on the key difference between the black ink that you have here a pigment black and a dye based black they make a difference in profiling and in final results i can see it in some of these and i'll look at that in a bit more detail when i round off later with looking at choosing papers but there's an aspect for that now to black and white for black and white printing i have a test image that i've created years ago uh it's been downloaded thousands and thousands of times i know a lot of people use it and i use it there are different versions of it there are articles describing i've got a video also describing how to use this test image suffice to say it is an image that tests your black and white printing um it's this is an a4 version of it there are other sizes available as well other versions of as well you print this using exactly the same method that you're going to print your black and white pictures in you then look at this and it shows you the quality of black and white now if you're printing black and white on this printer use the abw or black and white or advanced black and white mode in your printer driver you'll see options for color and for black and white now the black and white mode does not use printer profiles the black and white mode is set up specifically for optimizing the uses of the inks for the paper now when you're printing on this particular printer you've got a number of different paper options so if i'm thinking of just matte papers i've got typically two options one is the epson enhanced matte setting i think it's a matte setting and the other one is velvet fine art now the difference between those two settings and i'll go into the details here i will have this on on the website that all graphs and things is that the vfa setting velvet fine art setting seems to use a mix of pigment and dye inks now that's quite important because that's an unusual mix and the results of that depend very much on the paper that you're using now what i would say is when you're looking at printing black and white get your paper make a test image using the abw mode if it's a photo paper then use one of the photo paper modes this particular picture up here it's a black and white picture that's done on epsom luster paper so that is using just the dye based inks this one here is made on a watercolor style paper but there isn't a watercolor paper option in the media settings there's just the velvet fine art vfa setting this is using the vfa setting and with this particular one you get very good blacks and you get a nice even tonality now why does this make a difference in black and white why should you test it because if you get two seemingly quite similar papers and i'm thinking of art papers like this i tested two one was the an epson hot pressed bright which is a cotton rag paper smooth finish bright white that looks good i then printed that was tasting the test image here i then printed the same test image on a an oldish hanamulla fine art paper a cotton rag paper slightly rougher finish superficially i would have thought both were very much the same but because of the mix of inks here the surface coating that's being used makes a critical difference now there's no way of knowing in advance which sort of paper you've got for color and i'll show you this a bit later with the with paper settings for color the hanamulla one and the epson one both produce good profiles and produce good color results however in using the black and white mode when i tried printing on the hanamura paper all the blacks were crunched up there was a slight color tone to it that particular paper and i know it's a good paper that paper really doesn't like this mix of inks so what i would say is that if somebody says to you i've got particular paper it's an excellent paper you should try that if they've not tried it on this printer then test before you buy large amounts of it because you could quite easily get a paper that just simply doesn't suit the available ink settings you've got here so that's a little bit about color management for black and white i'll come back to a bit more of this about a question i've been asked a lot which is about choosing paper which i've got later on in the video what about some special media well i've mentioned board this prints as um epson matte so this is using the epson matte setting i've got a profile for that the epson profile itself works very well so there's no problem there's an epson paper it's supported so that's no problem but i've also printed on canvas now canvas here is the uh profiling sheet i made for it gives you an idea right this is a matte artist canvas and that gives you an idea of the sort of color range i'm getting now for this particular type of uh i might well think if i was using it i might well think of coating it or spraying it to get an extra bit of vibrancy but in the test here the colors look good and there's a there's a video about making using canvas here's where i've used epson print layout to do a reflected edge soft reflected edge so this has been produced for stretching over an a4 structure these are using uh a3 plus sheets of canvas if you can't find a3 plus sheets you can get a 13 inch roll of canvas trim it to size as before when making say large prints like this make sure you cut the edge off properly square because that really does make a difference so there we go we've got canvas and we've got board printing other sort of specials would be the large prints here these are just made from roll paper cut to length treated as normal paper so printed with a profile for relevant profile for it this one here is on a luster paper this one here's on an arc paper they print normally the only thing is you need to be a bit careful when they come out and also obviously feeding them in at the other end for it colour management really important in getting good results a few more things about that this printer does i mentioned earlier it has a scanner on the top well normally you might think of using that for just copying documents maybe copying a photo through to here to scan something onto the here or on direct launch your computer um i looked at the scanner and i i used a color checker sd card to make a custom scanner profile they don't need to go through stuff like this the epson scan software is fairly good um if you turn off all its corrections and color management and things like that so it does nothing so you just get the file out of it it's good i used viewscan software which is something i've used for years it supports literally thousands of different printers and it's it's a really good bit of software i use it because i hate seeing an old scanner going to waste just because the driver has not been supported i believe that was one of the inspirations for ed hamrick the guy who wrote viewscan and continues to maintain it excellent value i don't know anyone who's ever had a word to say against it it's not expensive but the epson software is free and it works now i made a profile which is the same way as you make profiles for papers you can profile scanners by scanning some colors there but the reason i did it was because i had some watercolor artwork now i've got another video which i'll be producing shortly to show some more aspects of this and that includes some stuff on colour management as well but it was to print greetings cards now this is a paper this one is a card and this is from photo speed in the uk this is a heavy-ish art paper the paper this size is a4 there are lots of other sizes it comes pre-creased so once you've printed it you can pre-crease it a bit of text that's nice and clear on there and that is a reproduction of a watercolour and so if you're interested in reproducing artwork for cards have a look at the other video should be up fairly soon and that has details about the process i went through in both scanning the artwork which is larger than this larger artwork and reproducing it to get the color right but um suffice to say that looks nice enough that the friend of mine who did the original artwork had a couple of dozen of these as uh you know which i think people will probably be getting for christmas but they go it works very well it's not a high-end scanner don't think you're going to get absolutely tremendous results from this i noticed a bit of shading on it nothing i couldn't correct easily in photoshop but if you're going to be scanning artwork a lot invest in a proper scanner something like the epson v850 i tried a few years ago superb that does transparencies as well and other things but certainly if you want to scan photos and that the better scanner you can get the better i was pleased how good this one was and certainly it was good enough for doing that now to one of the questions i've been asked most often by people when they knew i was testing this printer because it takes a while to do this and i've produced a few other videos on the way during my testing is how do i choose papers well first of all test any paper you want to choose if it's an epson paper it should print okay there should be no problem in printing an epson paper now the media setting that is available this as a consumer level printer has for fewer media settings than than a larger printer like the p700 p900 or any of the larger printers they tend to have more subtle variation of media settings if you want to print on an arc paper here you've got one setting that's the velvet fine art the vfa setting the matte setting will work on some papers as well so if you're testing a third-party paper and you're unsure what it is try the vfa setting and the map setting they change as to ink usage so the vfa setting velvet fine art is the one that uses a mix of pigment ink and dye based ink with a mix so it uses all the inks the epson matte doesn't as far as i can tell because epson don't publish this information doesn't use the pigment black now the results you'll get from this i've tried lots of different papers and say there's a there's a full list in the in the review of all the ones i've tried and what i've discovered is that for color it's all about the profiling i haven't found a good quality paper that with a good profile didn't give acceptable results on this printer now results vary because different images different different images have different ranges of color they have different brightnesses there are high key low-key images different styles of images like that so it's about matching your style of image to the paper so if you go for photo papers um any of the apps and photo papers they work well if you go for a metallic paper and i've tested some metallic papers on other printers now briefly on this one as well some of the bright color prints you can get from metallic quotes with these dye inks really are impressive and they work well once again with the proper profiles on it if you haven't got the profiles then you are it's a gamble you may get passable results you may not it all comes down to that with map art papers it depends what you want to print now here is i mentioned earlier two papers that i looked at this is uh this is a hannah mueller paper it's a really nice art cotton rag paper i've used it for years relatively light 265 grams so it's relatively light but gives excellent this is the profiling chart for it and it gives really nice colors this is epsom hot pressed bright there's one of epson's art papers now they do change the names of these somewhat um they they have been under a number of different names over the years but they're the same basic paper this is a smooth finish cotton rag of paper really nice paper uh i use it quite a lot for certain types of black and white images uh there's the hop as the hot press natural as well which is a similar surface to this but less bright and i like that more for architectural images of older subjects the warmth of the paper comes through a bit more this is quite bright it's about matching the what you want to print with the kind of image how you want it to look with what the paper can manage now so there we have two profiling sheets now i processed these and both made good proof there's nothing wrong with the printing of them but the colors in the hannah miller paper here are much brighter than they are here on the epson one does that mean the epson one is worse than the other no it does not and i've looked at this elsewhere in uh in in a video about making fine art prints and i've covered some aspects of this here are two prints curve in leicester printed this is on the hot pressed bright this is on the hannah miller paper now the hannah miller paper has got more intense colors that may suit this image better than the more muted colors i get on the cold press i'm sorry hot pressed bright however there's fine detail here in these colored areas they are two distinctly different prints made of what i would have said before testing this printer were essentially the same sorts of paper now that's the biggest difference i've seen so you think okay we've got that what about when i try this with the abw mode well it turns out that if i use the abw mode vfa setting if i use that on this hot pressed bright paper and say both these are both cotton rag papers if i use that on this i get really nice black and white results and in particular this is on a similar very similar paper to this it's a slightly warmer paper also this one is a slightly warmer paper printed using abw but they are this sort of paper now when i use the abw mode on the halometer paper and i've got some really nice black and white prints i've produced over the years on this exact paper they looked awful blacks were all crunched up they had a sort of greenish tinge to them in places all visible if i use the test print to start with now i've got my black and white test image here and i'll say if you're using i'm going to print black and white print this using the abw mode first to test whether your particular paper is good or horrible with black and white and it really can be that obvious the difference it can look really bad on it now that's not a fault of this that's merely saying that you have to be careful in selecting which papers you need now i have obviously tested quite a lot of papers and they'll be listed in the in the review and i am not recommending any papers in particular there are so many papers and remember i'm in the uk so i have a range of papers available here in the uk so i've tested uh papers from photo speed from permajet and my local papers paper supplier paper spectrum i've had great results from all of them with profiling so the key i would say to this is whatever papers you have in your market where you are get some sample packs and test that you can get profiles for them because without good profiles you're not going to get good results from this i've been really pleased that the quality of prints i've been able to get out of this printer they've been really good but i've had to put some care into it and if there was one takeaway from this i'd say is that if you have another printer that you've used and you have a favorite paper from that printer be careful about assuming that it's always automatically going to work in this printer here you need to allow for the fact that this has a very distinct different ink set it's not pigment it's not dye it's a hybrid between the two or i should say with some papers it's a hybrid between the two as to how it uses so yes you can get great results from it i like it but be careful and if somebody who uses another printer says to you yes you should use such exact paper it's all on a forum somewhere you see a paper recommended take such advice with care but anyway that's the printer i hope you found this of use please feel free to ask questions my feeling is that this is an interesting direction to take for printing um thanks for epson uk for lending it to me along with inc and i'm sure karen my wife will be glad when i finish printer testing for a while and all the piles of prints can be put away somewhere but yeah this is a nice printer if you want to print a bit more volume of prints and you're worried about ink costs you do need to do quite a few prints though before the ink costs here and the overall price of the printer matches up with a smaller one so well worth considering and an interesting print at the test thanks

Channel: Keith Cooper

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Length: 46min 34sec (2794 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 25 2021