Epson EcoTank ET-2850 Wireless Color All-in-One Ca

Good Quality & Very Reliable
**This is an update to the review I shared some months back. I cannot say enough good things about this printer!!! I use it almost daily and print a ton of things as a teacher. I am also a quilter and sometimes run printable fabric sheets through it and they turn out amazing. I am very happy with how reliable this printer is and am STUNNED at how little ink it uses. 5+ months of lots of use and I still have 2/3 of the ink remaining – the same ink that came with this printer. I also use the scanner and copier features which both work great. I highly recommend this product.I am a teacher who prints a LOT of things. I need a very reliable and quality printer that doesn’t break the bank. I decided to purchase this after hearing a co-teacher tell me about how much she loves her own tank printer. It turned out to be a really good decision. I read many comments before purchasing, and after viewing customer photos and reading about how the ink lasts and lasts, I can agree with the comments. I have gone through several different printers which either don’t print on demand, or use too much expensive toner. I recently printed 42 color pages and each one looked beautiful. The ink level barely budged. I also love that you can see how much ink remains, and it is much cheaper than the toner I previously used. If I can choose one downside, it would be that I wish there was a pull-out paper tray instead of loading it on the back. However, it is such a small thing that the benefits far outweigh this little inconvenience. If you want a great little printer this one is worth it.

Not perfect, but pretty good for a basic ink tank.
We were so tired of the ridiculous price of ink cartridges for our previous printer, and wanted to switch to a tank printer. But we don’t print a ton, nor do we print photos. We just needed a basic printer for everyday use. And so far we’ve been quite satisfied with this one.The colors are just a little dull, so I don’t know that this is the printer for someone who will print a lot photos. And because I have it set to Best Quality, it’s not as fast as some may want. I haven’t tried it at Normal, but I suspect it’ll still be a fair bit slower than higher end printers. The touch screen is pretty small, but works fine. We actually only use it to make copies. For everything else, we just use the computer or the phone app, which so far seems to work okay.And the ink usage? As advertised. Loading the ink tanks was simple, and you CAN’T put the ink in the wrong ones, which is nice. I’ve probably run a hundred or so pages so far, most with full page color pictures, and I can’t see that the ink level has even budged on the tanks. This thing is going to print A LOT of pages. And when it does come time to buy more ink (probably sometime in late 2025), it’ll still be cheaper than cartridges are. I’ve seen people online say an ink tank isn’t for someone who doesn’t print a lot because it will clog the print heads. I’m hoping to avoid that issue but just regularly printing SOMETHING. I clearly won’t have to worry about wasting ink.My only disappointment with the purchase wasn’t with the printer, but with Amazon. I ordered the printer in white, but received black. But the color of the printer wasn’t a deal breaker, and once we had it in the house, we didn’t feel like jumping through the hoops of trying to exchange it.So for us, four stars. It’s not perfect at anything, but it’s pretty solid at most things. And we won’t have to put another penny into our printer for at least a year and a half.UPDATE – 6/17/24Three months since my original review. Something unexpected has happened. Apparently freed from the burden of paying for ink, we’ve gone a little crazy printing things. I’d estimate we’ve printed maybe another 400 pages over the past three months. All full page and color. All at highest quality setting. And I STILL can’t tell that the ink level has budged from the initial fill. This leaves me with two conclusions:1- Holy cow, this thing’s going to print a LOT of pages at a tiny cost.2- Holy cow, ink cartridges are a scam. If you’re still using a cartridge printer, get out now. Tank printers may cost a little more up front, but you’ll make that money back very quickly.One other thing: I’ve seen several reviews that comment that the printer seems to lose the wifi connection. Ours hasn’t lost it even once so far. In fairness, it IS sitting approximately 24″ from my router. But still, so far, so good.I’m going to leave my ranking at four stars, because it’s not ‘perfect’ quality. But I’d probably go to 4½ stars if it were an option.

I operate a small home office and print about 300 pages per month, with approx 10% using various levels of colour. Before this, I used an Epson toner printer sitting next to an HP colour printer. The reason for this was to minimize the cost of constantly printing with expensive colour cartridges. The Toner unit served me well for several years, but it was just time to replace it. I committed to order the ET 2850 on behalf of two respected colleagues. Two aspects caught my attention, one of which was dual-sided printing, and the second was the cost of maintaining an ink supply. Admittedly, I was skeptical about the latter. Amazon delivered as usual (always great to deal with!), and everything exceeded my expectations! I donated the other two printers to a charity. The 2850 is robust, easy to set up, seems to have an endless supply of ink, and the print quality is better than the other two units! I found the WIFI print spooling a little slow, 10-15 seconds, so I cabled it and solved that slight lag. As a side note, it had not occurred to me that this printer now sits next to my Epson 400 scanner, my next favourite device! I highly recommend both of these Epson products! Paul

A little cumbersome to set up the appBut there is a lot of help online, that smooths things out. Once set up, all is good so far2 sided printing is awesome on this home printer.