Canon MAXIFY GX4050 vs Epson EcoTank ET-8550

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MAXIFY GX4050 compared with EcoTank ET-8550

	CanonMAXIFY GX4050	EpsonEcoTank ET-8550
Overview
Released
Released	November 2022	April 2021
Printing
Type
Type	Ink tank	Ink tank
Colour
Colour	Yes	Yes
Speed, black
Speed, black	18 pages a minute (better)	16 pages a minute
Speed, colour
Speed, colour	13 pages a minute (better)	12 pages a minute
Resolution
Resolution	600 × 1200 dpi	5760 × 1440 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	Six-colour Micro Piezo printing; 360 black nozzles and 180 per colour; automatic 2-sided printing on A4 plain paper; borderless printing up to A3+; CD/DVD printing; 10 × 15 cm photo in 25 seconds on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper; up to 32 pages a minute in draft on 75 g/m² paper
First page out
First page out	8 seconds black, 9 seconds colour (from ready)	–
Ink or toner
Ink or toner	Four-colour pigment ink; GI-56 bottles (black, cyan, magenta, yellow); MC-G03 maintenance cartridge, user replaceable	Claria ET Premium; pigment black plus dye photo black, cyan, magenta, yellow and grey in refillable tanks; 114 EcoTank bottles, 70 ml each
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 1,800 photos; a set of 114 bottles prints 2,300 photos (6,700 pages black, 6,200 pages colour)
Duty cycle
Duty cycle	Up to 33,000 pages	Warranty 12 months or 50,000 pages
Scanning and copying
Does
Does	Print, Scan, Copy and Fax	Print, Scan and Copy
Document feeder
Document feeder	Yes	No
Scanner
Scanner	CIS colour scanner with flatbed (A4/Letter) and 35-sheet document feeder (A4/Letter/Legal); 1,200 × 2,400 dpi optical; 7.1 ipm colour from the feeder	Flatbed contact image sensor (CIS); 1,200 × 4,800 dpi optical; documents up to 216 × 355.6 mm; saves BMP, JPEG, TIFF, multi-TIFF, PDF, searchable PDF and PNG
Copying
Copying	First colour copy in about 17 seconds; 11.1 ipm colour from the glass; 15.2 ipm black and 7.4 ipm colour from the feeder; 2-sided copying; ID copy; 25–400% zoom	–
Fax
Fax	Super G3 colour fax at up to 33.6 kbps; about 3 seconds a page black; 250-page memory; 100 speed dials, 99 groups	–
Paper
Largest paper
Largest paper	A4	A3
Paper tray
Paper tray	250 sheets (better)	100 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; document feeder A5, A4, Letter, Legal	Trays - front tray 1, 20 sheets of photo paper up to 13 × 18 cm; front tray 2, 100 sheets of A4 plain paper; rear feeder, 50 sheets of plain paper or 5 of photo paper up to A3+; rear straight path, 1 sheet. Sizes - A3+, A3, B4, A4, A5, A6, B5, B6, Letter, Legal, Executive, 10 × 15 cm, 13 × 18 cm, envelopes (No. 10, DL, C6) and user-defined sizes up to 329 × 2,000 mm
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	Plain paper 64–90 g/m²; photo, fine art and thick media up to 1.3 mm through the rear straight path
Output tray
Output tray	–	50 sheets of plain paper or 20 of premium glossy photo paper
Connections
Connects by
Connects by	Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB	Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB
Connection detail
Connection detail	Hi-Speed USB; Ethernet (10/100); Wi-Fi 5 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac) on 2.4 and 5 GHz; Wireless Direct; WPA3	Hi-Speed USB; Ethernet; Wi-Fi 5 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac); Wi-Fi Direct; USB host port and SD card slot for printing without a computer; PictBridge
Printing from phones
Printing from phones	Apple AirPrint, Mopria, Canon Print Service plug-in (Android), PIXMA Cloud Link; Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant	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; Epson Photo+ and Epson ScanSmart on a computer
Control panel
Control panel	6.7 cm colour touchscreen	10.9 cm colour touchscreen
Design
Weight
Weight	9.5 kg	11.1 kg
Power use
Power use	About 20 W copying, 1.4 W standby (all ports connected), 0.1 W off; TEC 0.15 kWh	17 W copying (ISO/IEC 24712), 7.5 W ready, 0.8 W sleep, 0.3 W off; TEC 0.16 kWh a week
Noise
Noise	About 49 dB(A)	37 dB(A) printing photos on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper
Size
Size	399 × 417 × 251 mm (W × D × H) with trays closed	523 × 379 × 169 mm (W × D × H)
In the box
In the box	–	Printer, ink set, power cable, driver and utilities CD, quick start guide, warranty document