EcoTank ET-2720 Wireless Color All-in-One Supertank Printer with Scanner and Copier - Black

I'm rewriting my review because I gave it low marks from a previous purchase. My intention was to get this for Sublimation Ink and Heat Pressing Ceramics and other Artisan Goods. The first purchase was a 'used' version, and what I got in the mail wasn't even the same version of the printer, so I gave a poor review. After getting a 'new' printer and using it to make art, I can say this printer (if used correctly) can be a wonderful tool for Sublimation. Just be sure to ONLY buy new. If this printer has been used even just one time with 'normal' ink, your sublimation jobs will turn to trash in quality! If it's new, and has never been used, the Sublimation Ink can run through the system flawlessly, and each sheet can cover about 2 15oz mugs. The ink won't have to be replaced until over 1k jobs, and the paper is not super expensive either. Your main overhead will be the Mugs or Ceramics, or even the Cloth or other materials you press onto. I've bought 15" long paper @ 8.5" wide, so I feel comfortable doing Shirts, Hoodies etc. If you do mugs like me, make sure to clean the surface of both the ceramics and the paper itself to make sure no lint or other stuff makes 'blank' bits in your artwork. I ruined a couple mugs from that. Also worth noting: If you do your own art on something like Canva. com, make sure to get the colors BRIGHT and LIGHT. Deep shadows come out DEEP, and DARK. So you'll probably go through a few mugs just trying to find your own happy place on light balance. I've sold a couple mugs so far to friends, and everyone who has gotten one has been very happy to get it. Works well, decent pace for a small studio/business, very light overhead/maintenance cost. Maybe 7ish pounds or 3kg, easy to carry, and not that big, so even small apartments could hold it fairly easy. Lots of options for scanning and printing, I didn't check, but there maybe a fax option if you care about that. If you do, don't take my word for it, do more research. But, all in all - I'm very happy with mine, and I would gladly recommend this printer to any Artist/Entrepreneur that wants to get their leg up on making ceramics or tee shirt business. Your biggest cost aside from this machine will be the heat press itself. Cricut has one (that's what I bought), but they are kind of narrow in what they can produce through their product lines, so that's why I got this printer (Full Custom Images). Also, there are several 5 in 1 or even something like 7 in 1 heat press options on Amazon that beat Cricut in price, and can do much more than just 10-15oz mugs! My Cricut Mug Press does very well, and feels greatly constructed, but without this printer, it would have been a waste of money!

Works well, pleased with not having to fill ink cartridges often, easy to use, fast printing.

This Epson printer was bought after my Canon decided to quit working just outside of its warranty. Which isn’t the first time I’ve had a Canon product do that. So I switched to Epson with an extended warranty, making sure I get at least four covered years out of this one. It’s a standard 3 in 1, just print, copy and scan (no fax, but if you want that, shop for an office printer, not home). It feeds paper from the back and the front tray must be pulled out manually. This one also doesn’t do duplex printing (two sided) but you can still manually flip it for a two sided job. What made this most appealing is the Ecotank, which gets you a lot more ink and was so easy to line up the bottles. You hear a light chugging sound as it fills, which stops when it’s full, no mess or drips when removing either. I don’t have the steadiest hands but that didn’t make it more difficult. It’s very easy to set up to the WiFi, just make sure that both the device you’re using and the printer are on the same 2.4 bandwidth channel. If you’re not tech savvy, modern routers/modems are usually equipped with two bandwidths: whatever you named the router and usually a 2G or 5G added after it. 2G is usually slower but has better reach, while the faster one (5G) tends to have a shorter reach. Whether or not your signal reaches everywhere, this printer will only look for the 2G. For smartphones and tablets, it’s best to download the free Epson Print app to send your printer jobs from a device. If you’re using this printer in conjunction with a desktop, purchasing a printer to USB cable between them makes sure that computer can print, regardless of whether WiFi is working. Very helpful if you work with offline manuscripts and your internet service is down. Always good to have a wired solution, just in case. The start up guides make it easy to setup but if you need more options, Amazon does have the PDF manual in the product description page to help. Even easy set-ups can be intimidating for those who aren’t tech-savvy but Epson does a good job with thorough explanations that aren’t difficult for beginners to understand. While I did sacrifice some options (like printing on discs) with this Epson printer, I actually didn’t use the many features of an office printer so this pared down version actually suits my usage better. In summary, if you don’t need a huge loading tray, duplex printing or fax, this is a great choice. Ecotank printers save you tons on ink and if you’ve got the money, you can still get those options on different models. If saving money on ink is a priority, this is a definitely a must have. I’m not sure why anyone would buy generic ink for an Ecotank; Epson’s refill bottles are actually very cheap. I was paying that much for Canon’s one-time-use cartridges, if not more. They do warn you against using generics, but at the Epson prices, it’s not even a consideration.

What I like: + The photo print quality on glossy photo paper is, in my opinion of being a tech guy for 15+ years, astonishing for a multi-function printer. With most multi-function printers I notice there's an effect looking at glossy print at an angle; It's difficult to describe, the print almost has a "layered" look where dark and light contrasting boarders meet in the picture. This printer has none of that. All of the pictures are beautifully flat and glossy. Seriously, they look like they came from a store, I'm blown away considering it uses only the three colors and black. + Included ink fills the ink tanks completely and ink use appears to be quite slow. Over 10 months I've printed at least 250 color powerpoint slides (white background), 35 full color 4x6 borderless photos, 10 full color 8x10 photos (on high print quality) and ran >9 head cleaning cycles (more on that later). Still on the original ink, black is 2/3rds full, each color is above 3/4ths full with two of the colors still above 7/8ths. I will not have to buy ink anytime soon. Quite a change from the starter cartridges that come with inexpensive printers. + Wi-Fi setup is possible on the printer. No need to connect a USB cable to a computer. I have printed borderless photos from my Android phone over wi-fi with ease (needs an Epson enabler app, but then works like a normal printer). + Epson apps installed on the PC aren't annoying. Scanning to a PC and making copies over Wi-Fi works great. + The print head cleaning. This seems to be a necessary evil of this type of printer which has print heads that are not changed like cartridge based printers. I knew it going into the purchase and wondered how it would fare after I let the printer sit unused for long periods of time. (this is why I finally wrote a review) After sitting for 6 months, of no use, three cleaning cycles is all it took to be back to printing normally. The cleaning cycles don't seem to use much ink at all and are easy to access from the front panel + When I change the paper, it asks me on the front panel what type of paper was inserted. I've never seen another printer do this and it makes setting the paper type simple. + The front panel in general, you can do just about everything from it. Easy to navigate menus, easy to make a color or B/W copy. + Filling the ink tanks was new and fun, but then again I am easily entertained. What I dislike: - It does not work well when colder than room temperature. While I had it next to a drafty, single pane window over the great-lakes area winter, two problems occurred. 1. While it was next to the drafty window, the print heads would be unable to feed the thicker, cold ink. A photo would print 3/4 of the picture correctly then lines of color would be missing. Or some pages would just be missing lines of a color entirely. 2. When cold, the paper pickup rollers had a difficult time gripping 4x6 Epson glossy photo paper. It would fail to feed the photo paper, stating "load paper" to which you have to take the paper out and put it back in making it frustrating to use. Neither of these problems persisted when the device got to room temperature. - The photo prints aren't perfect. I can see a moire of ink dots upon unreasonably close inspection of a print. At normal viewing distance no pattern can be seen. - The rollers leave a couple lines of tiny tiny divots on glossy photos. Only noticeable on close inspection of a print. - Maintenance If not used for long periods of time it will need head cleanings. Need to watch the ink level (it reminds you to do so - a lot). There is a waste ink tank that will need to be replaced eventually, hopefully will be available in 5-10 years when needed. - Piano gloss faceplace picks up fingerprints (the buttons are matte though). Summary: I bought this printer for several reasons. I needed something to print normal 8.5x11 pages, but also wanted something that could print decent photos. A friend had one and told me he loved his. After reading other reviews about ink use, photo print quality and me not wanting to pay for replacement cartridges it seemed like the right choice. I think this printer is best for someone comfortable with computers. Don't need to be tech savvy, just need to understand what print head cleaning does and why its needed for this printer. Also need to understand resetting the ink level when the tanks are refilled. It's just not quite as simple as changing out ink cartridges. Its more expensive than most multi-function printers but considering it came with enough ink to fill the tanks and that I will probably be able to print at least another 100 quality photos before needing to buy ink, I think it's an excellent value and also one of my favorite pieces of tech I've bought.

Let’s start off with the fact that I am so glad I bought this printer. My whole life I have used an inkjet printer with those ridiculously priced cartridges and enough was enough. I am a college student in a STEM field so I print pretty much everyday roughly 10-70 pages depending on my assignments. Printer comes sealed and taped down very nicely and safely. It comes with the cord to connect it and turn it on, the packets with instructions and the cd, and the four bottles of ink. No the CD is not necessary for setting up via WiFi, also your WiFi needs to be atleast 2.4GHz in order for this to work. Setting it up through the computer didn’t work for us so we just did it through the printer, the manual entry was a bit tedious but only necessary the one time and now we can print from anywhere around the house. The set up is pretty self explanatory, follow the steps on the paper and you’ll be set, don’t cut corners because the printer does need to register the ink and everything in order to work properly. Do the ink first before turning it on! While there’s ink in the printer do not flip it. When you fill up the ink you should be left with maybe 2-3 ml but after the whole setup is done you can fill the rest of it up and throw the bottles away. Once everything is being setup, for the best ink quality you’re going to want to do the setup which will use a bit of your ink but it’s worth it, it’s going to print out different boxes and ask which ones are the better quality. This is important for good printing quality! Printer quality is awesome, we did the setup and took our time with it and it prints great! I don’t see anything wrong so far with it, and like I previously mentioned it has been a very pleasant purchase. I’m glad I switched to this type of printer, If you’re debating it still...I think you should do it! Thanks for tuning in to this long but hopefully helpful review :)!

UPDATE: Garbage!!! Can't print ANYTHING anymore... Print head cleaning no longer does anything. Maybe I need to remove the ink and put fresh ink? I hardly got any use out of this thing for what I paid, and this is a purchase I really regret. Colors are mismatched and all over the place, can't even print B&W without smudges and missing lines. The only thing that works is the scanner. Otherwise, this thing is totally useless.... ---------------- I want to like this printer a lot more.. it has a decent enough scanner, the ink has decent capacity. That being said, after printing a huge amount of legal documents (about 60 pages) that had many colors and images one night, the prints started becoming blurry and VERY distorted, and it's been a lasting problem. Even just printing my car insurance IDs would come out all smudged and completely illegible. Luckily, the printer does have a self-cleaning feature but it does take a few minutes and it's a smart idea to run a test page (also a built-in feature). It's just a bit irritating that now, if I want to print pretty much anything, I have to use the cleaning feature to make the print heads work properly, and usually this involves wasting at least one page of paper. Now printing one real quick paper or document that I need goes from being just a moment, to at least 5 or 10 minutes. It's been about 4 times now, printing a return label for a package, printing my insurance cards, printing an invoice, and then a page for a friend, each time respectively months apart, the first round always comes out smudged and distorted. Then I have to run the print-head cleaner, then print it again, and it just repeats. I guess I'll have to pull it apart if I ever need to print a packet of important documents, or I'll just go to an actual print shop.

Excellent printer. Can't be happier!

The printer worked great for about a year. One of the inkjets stopped working, so as in the past, with other printers, I tried to open the unit so I could clean the heads, etc. The only problem is you can't physically get to the printer heads. I went through the electronic process to clean the heads and realign them, but still, no luck. I was sorely disappointed so I called Epson. Now, I didn't think anything substantial would happen - I just wanted to call to let them know that I was not pleased because I only had this printer for about a year. I explained my 'situation' and gave the customer service agent the serial number, she looked it up and said - "Your printer is still under warranty and we will send you a new one within a week." Wait, what? I couldn't believe it. I didn't have to tell "my story" over and over to multiple people and she didn't make a big deal about replacing the unit. I'm tellin' you, when companies have great customer service, they have my business for life! Good job, Epson!

I was sold a used product when it was not advertised as such

Love this printer! So happy to do away with having to buy ink all the time. The ink tanks are supposed to last 2 years and we’ll have to wait and see if that’s the case. But it prints great is super easy to set up and also to connect wireless so we can print from our phones.

After reading many reviews I was hesitant to order this printer, but decided to give it a shot regardless. I had no problem connecting to wifi like many stated in their reviews. Even connected easily to my 6 year old dinosaur tablet. Print quality seems good. Printed documents from my phone, tablet, and PC...everything is working great. Knock on wood!

Print heads were clogged, the cyan and magenta weren't coming out, had to deep clean numerous times to get it printing correctly. This is a first time buying a new printer that is clogged or ink wasn't printing... Asked the seller to return, and received no communication back from them at all. After a week of trouble shooting, watching videos and power cleaning and head cleaning the printer is finally printing almost perfectly. I wonder if the printer was "new" or maybe it's common in "new" printers to be clogged or not to print properly when installing.

I was printing within an hour after taking the printer out of the box. Printer works really well. Good bye to those expensive HP ink cartridges.