Canon MAXIFY GX3050 vs Epson EcoTank ET-4850

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MAXIFY GX3050 compared with EcoTank ET-4850

	CanonMAXIFY GX3050	EpsonEcoTank ET-4850
Overview
Released
Released	November 2022	October 2021
Printing
Type
Type	Ink tank	Ink tank
Colour
Colour	Yes	Yes
Speed, black
Speed, black	18 pages a minute (better)	15.5 pages a minute
Speed, colour
Speed, colour	13 pages a minute (better)	8.5 pages a minute
Resolution
Resolution	600 × 1200 dpi	4800 × 1200 dpi
Prints both sides
Prints both sides	Yes	Yes
Printing detail
Printing detail	One print head; refillable ink tanks; automatic 2-sided printing on A4 and Letter plain paper from the rear tray and cassette	PrecisionCore print head, 400 black nozzles and 128 per colour; automatic 2-sided printing on A4 plain paper at 6.5 pages a minute black and 4.5 colour (ISO/IEC 24734); borderless printing; up to 33 pages a minute black and 20 colour in draft on 75 g/m² paper
First page out
First page out	8 seconds black, 9 seconds colour (from ready)	9 seconds black, 15 seconds colour
Ink or toner
Ink or toner	Four-colour pigment ink; GI-56 bottles (black, cyan, magenta, yellow); MC-G03 maintenance cartridge, user replaceable	Pigment black and dye cyan, magenta and yellow in refillable tanks; 102 EcoTank ink bottles, 127 ml black and 70 ml colour
Page yield
Page yield	Bottles print 6,000 pages black and 14,000 colour (9,000 and 21,000 in economy mode)	Ink in the box prints 14,000 pages black and 5,200 colour; a set of 102 bottles prints 7,500 pages black and 6,000 colour
Duty cycle
Duty cycle	Up to 33,000 pages	Warranty 12 months or 50,000 pages
Scanning and copying
Does
Does	Print, Scan and Copy	Print, Scan, Copy and Fax
Document feeder
Document feeder	No	Yes
Scanner
Scanner	Flatbed CIS colour scanner, A4/Letter; 1,200 × 2,400 dpi optical	Contact image sensor (CIS) with flatbed and 30-page document feeder; 1,200 × 2,400 dpi optical; feeder 5 ipm black or colour; flatbed A4 in 12 seconds black and 27 seconds colour; saves BMP, JPEG, PICT, TIFF, multi-TIFF, PDF and PNG
Fax
Fax	–	Fax at up to 33.6 kbps (about 3 seconds a page); 60 speed dials; 100-page memory; PC fax, broadcast, polling reception
Copying
Copying	First colour copy in 17 seconds; 11.1 ipm colour; 2-sided, 2-on-1 and 4-on-1, frame erase and ID copy	–
Paper
Largest paper
Largest paper	A4	A4
Paper tray
Paper tray	250 sheets	250 sheets
Paper sizes
Paper sizes	Rear tray A4, A5, A6, B5, Letter, Legal, 10 × 15 cm, 13 × 18 cm, 18 × 25 cm, 20 × 25 cm, 127 × 127 mm, envelopes (DL, COM10) and custom sizes 89–216 mm wide by 127–1,200 mm long; cassette A4, A5, B5, Letter	A4, A5, A6, B5, B6, 9 × 13 cm, 10 × 15 cm, 13 × 18 cm, 13 × 20 cm, 20 × 25 cm, envelopes (No. 10, DL, C6)
Paper types
Paper types	Plain paper 64–105 g/m²; Canon photo papers up to about 265 g/m² from the rear tray; paperboard 0.1–0.7 mm from the rear flat tray	64–300 g/m² (300 g/m² with Epson Ultra Glossy Photo Paper)
Output tray
Output tray	–	30 sheets
Connections
Connects by
Connects by	Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct and USB	Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB
Connection detail
Connection detail	Hi-Speed USB; Wi-Fi 5 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac) on 2.4 and 5 GHz; Wireless Direct	USB; Ethernet; Wi-Fi; Wi-Fi Direct
Printing from phones
Printing from phones	Apple AirPrint, Mopria, Canon Print Service plug-in (Android), PIXMA Cloud Link; Amazon Alexa	Apple AirPrint, Mopria Print Service, Mopria Scan, Epson Connect (Email Print, Remote Print Driver, Scan-to-Cloud)
App
App	Canon PRINT Inkjet/SELPHY, Easy-PhotoPrint Editor	Epson Smart Panel
Control panel
Control panel	3.4 cm monochrome LCD	6.1 cm colour touchscreen
Design
Weight
Weight	8.3 kg	6.7 kg
Power use
Power use	About 18 W copying, 1.4 W standby (all ports connected), 0.1 W off; TEC 0.19 kWh	12 W copying (ISO/IEC 24712), 5.4 W ready, 1 W sleep, 0.2 W off; TEC 0.16 kWh a week
Noise
Noise	About 49 dB(A)	–
Size
Size	399 × 417 × 216 mm (W × D × H) with trays closed	375 × 347 × 231 mm (W × D × H)