Epson EcoTank ET-2800 Wireless Color All-in-One Cartridge-Free Supertank Printer with Scan and Copy – The Ideal Basic Home Printer - White, MediumECOLOGO

My old printer broke (sooner than I would have liked) so I did A LOT of research before deciding to buy this Epson EcoTank printer for home office use. This is my honest review of it this far and I will definitely update my review if I run into any issues.So far, this printer has been pretty impressive (I've been using it for about a month). The price was pretty average for a printer... but I personally think all printers are overpriced so it was a bit more than I would have liked to spend. It is smaller and more lightweight than I was expecting which is a plus because it takes up less desk space than my previous HP printer.It is very easy to set up, comes with step-by-step easy instructions and guided instructions through the app. It only took me about 10 minutes (Mostly just waiting for the printer to initialize on its own). It is very easy and surprisingly satisfying to fill the ink tank. I like the idea that this ink might last longer than traditional cartridges and won't have as much plastic waste that went along with my old HP Inkjet.I have printed plain black and white documents as well as photos. I print all my photos at home, which is most of the printing that I do, so quality was important to me. The photos came out with pretty good quality! No ink smudges or off colors, colors are bright/vivid, and it is easy to modify what paper you're using with automatic prompts on the printer.Now for the negatives and the reason I'm giving this 4 stars... app to printer connection issues. This was a big issue with my old printer as well. I'm pretty tech savvy and I just have no idea why this is still always an issue for me. There is an extra Epson app that you are supposed to download for printing. Sometimes it can find my printer, sometimes it can't. Sometimes it gives me printer errors or won't let me print documents. And now every time I go to print something it says the paper being used doesn't match the paper settings so I have to bypass that error message (even though it does match in settings and the app, and this happens for both regular paper and photo paper). I've turned everything off and back on again, but the issues with consistent connection and error messages are still an issue.Usually with some fiddling around, I can get the documents/pictures to print but sometimes it feels like I'm jumping through unnecessary hoops. I'm still working out the kinks so if I find some magic solution I'll update my review. Considering this is an issue with most home printers I've used, it's not a deal breaker.All in all, if you are looking for a new home printer, I would definitely recommend this one. The quality has been great for me and I am pleased with my purchase (so far).Hope this helps!*UPDATE*: I have now printed HUNDREDS of photos, they are all excellent quality, and my ink tanks are still mostly full. This is WAY better than my HP printer as far as ink longevity. Changing my review to 5 stars just based on how long this ink lasts. User interface is still a tad annoying but so worth it regardless.

I love this printer. I bought my Epson ET2800 EcoTank printer a month ago, and love it. Okay, I have one problem, I'll describe that later. Note: this is my second printer (my bulk of printing is with my usb-wired Brother laser printer). I bought the Epson ET2800 for color printing and as a networked backup printer, replacing my earlier ancient inkjet. First: Epson software and installation was excellent, no problems, easy to use. Installation and networking was a breeze. Second: the EcoTank system is so easy to fill, there is no mess. Third, the print quality is good on plain paper, on glossy photo paper excellent; it does great photos in photo mode. Networking? Five stars. Speed? Excellent. Copying? Excellent. Now: four stars: it is slightly noisy. Finally, my gripe: my gosh Epson, what is with you on that postage-stamp sized control screen? I'm an old coot; I need a magnifying glass to read it. NEXT TIME THAT YOU EPSON GUYS UPGRADE THIS PRINTER PUT IN A 2-1/2 INCH SCREEN!!! that postage stamp is horrible! So, overall? as a home printer, excellent choice. I am happy. I'd recommend it.

Have not had this long so can’t speak to the longevity but this printer has performed great so far. Seems to be well built and the print quality is very high. Have tested printing various images and they come out looking very good and any text printed has been sharp. I like the idea of reduced waste by not using cartridges and filling the colors is super simple plus refills are much cheaper. Definitely not the quickest printer I’ve seen but still starts printing and gets the job done at a reasonable speed. The only thing I’m not crazy about is it using an external paper tray rather than an internal. Overall, I’m happy with my purchase so far and would recommend to others.

DO NOT BUY! 0 STARS-I would give 0 stars if I could. This EPSON ET-2800 is the worst printer I have ever owned.-I work from home where I need to do small print jobs throughout the month. I didn’t need a printer that is super fast or had a lot of bells and whistles. I searched many, many, many reviews and this Epson ET-2800 kept coming up as a really good option for my purposes. It had great reviews and it supposedly uses less ink.-I went ahead and bought it and it was delivered Dec. 28.-Throughout the month of January I did a few print jobs here and there. Everything seemed ok.Toward the end of January I noticed that there was black shadowing behind a whole horizontal line on one of my print jobs. The shadow went the whole width of the paper. Thought it was a one-off and didn’t think about it too much since I had so much going on at the time. I also never dreamed that I would need to clean my printer since I hadn’t even owned it for a month at this point.-February 2 I started printing some things for work again and the lettering had lines through the center of the page. Even though I had just had the printer for a month and hadn’t printed that much stuff so I really shouldn’t have to clean it already, I used the “clean nozzle” tool on the printer. **I had to do the cleaning cycle 8 times before it was printing correctly meaning there were no missing segments on the sheet that is printed after the cleaning. ** This was a huge waste of my time and ink and paper!!!-February 16 I attempted to print some pages and again there were lines throughout the papers!!-February 17 I called Amazon to try to get a refund and they said I was outside of the return window. So -I called Epson. I explained what was happening and the lady told me before they would do anything I had to go through some “detailed instructions” on how to clean the printer. Only AFTER I completed all the steps would they even think about helping me.-So first step is to perform a nozzle cleaning per the instructions. Did this.-Instructions say to wait 12 hours before doing anything else. So I waited 12 hours and did another cleaning. Did this twice.The printer showed no broken/missing segments.-So I printed some pages and several of the pages had black smudges/lines/dots on the tops of the pages and most of them had black ink all over the bottom right corners of the papers.-Did the print nozzle cleaning and had broken/missing segments again.-Instructions say to do a head cleaning. Did head cleaning twice I think, and no broken/missing segments.-Printed a few pages and several of the pages had the shadows behind the whole horizontal line again and also some random black dots sprinkled throughout several pages.-Ran a Power Cleaning which is the last step of this process.This process by the way uses up A LOT of ink! My black ink is now less than half!! All the colors are down by ¼! They were full obviously when I started using the printer and the black was only down a smidge at the beginning of this whole cleaning process.-Now I have to wait 12 hours to see if the quality improves.-This is absolutely ridiculous!!!This whole process has wasted my time (each cleaning takes at least 3 minutes to do. The Power Cleaning takes 12 minutes).This whole process has used up a TON of my ink!This whole process has used up a ton of paper!!I shouldn’t have to clean my printer head or nozzle every single time I need to print!I have only had this printer for 7 weeks!!!DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER! It is junk!I only hope I can get a refund after all this...