EPSON 552 EcoTank Ink Ultra-high Capacity Bottle Five Color Combo Pack (T552920-S) Works with EcoTank Photo ET-8500, ET-8550

These are the best quality for the epson printer, easy to use. Colors print amazing. I can print a lot of color images so the print capacity is great. Very functional to use.

I don't know who packages the products whether it be amazon or the company but it was packaged in a brown paper sack essentially and when I opened the sack the box the ink was in was mangled and the ink free floating in the sack. Thankfully the ink is sealed in plastic but it was very poorly done. Again, not blaming the company as I don't know who packaged it, but may be something to look into. The product is wonderful, exactly as I expected it to be.

With the Ecotank line up of printers (I have the ET-8550) Epson has abandoned the “razor blade” model and makes its profit upfront on the printer. Since an ink charge typically lasts a year or longer (I sometimes have to buy an extra “Photo Gray” bottle) ink cost is no longer an issue: nor would I take a chance with third party ink. I was a former photography teacher for 35 years and between digitized film images and digital photos I have over 70,000 images in my photo library, so I print a lot! I also print on a wide range of media, including (recently) paper cut from large commercial rolls of dry lab photo paper or coated canvas that I’ve found at a local retail surplus re-seller at incredibly low prices. This includes HP, Fuji, Pakor and Epson products (Epson Exhibition Canvas) that are not recommended for this printer or ink but work fine. The rear feeder on the printer also allows the use of very thick media (the exhibition canvas is 420 g/m2 or gsm (grams per square meter, a higher number is thicker, plain paper is around 20 g/m2). Of course these media products perform best with their recommended inks and printers, but the point is they also work just fine on my printer with this ink.

Quality epson ink

Amazing print qualityVibrant colors and long lasting ink tank supply

The best price I seen on-line.

I only use OEM inks in my printers, love this one, be aware, use very good paper of high quality, cheap paper if double sided will jam unless you bump up the "drying time to at least 15 seconds, and still if lots of graphics on paper, it still could jam. The scanning/photo software is very good, easy to setup and use. For very high quality, large prints in this printer, I have purchased Q-Image, but have not had reason to use it much. Should practice on large printout but the large photo paper is expensive so a great picture is needed to test that. Was hoping for northern lights, but clouds instead, every single full moon, clouds and rain.

Just what I needed for my Epsom printer