Canon PIXMA G650 vs Epson EcoTank ET-8550

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PIXMA G650 compared with EcoTank ET-8550

	CanonPIXMA G650	EpsonEcoTank ET-8550
Overview
Released
Released	April 2021	April 2021
Printing
Type
Type	Ink tank	Ink tank
Colour
Colour	Yes	Yes
Speed, black
Speed, black	3.9 pages a minute	16 pages a minute (better)
Speed, colour
Speed, colour	3.9 pages a minute	12 pages a minute (better)
Resolution
Resolution	4800 × 1200 dpi	5760 × 1440 dpi
Prints both sides
Prints both sides	No	Yes
Printing detail
Printing detail	Two FINE print heads (black, red and grey; cyan, magenta and yellow); refillable ink tanks; borderless printing at A4, Letter and photo sizes; borderless 10 × 15 cm photo in about 47 seconds; manual 2-sided printing	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
Ink or toner
Ink or toner	Six ChromaLife 100 dye inks in GI-53 bottles (black, cyan, magenta, yellow, red, grey); MC-G02 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	A set of bottles prints about 3,700 pages black and 8,000 colour, or 3,800 10 × 15 cm photos	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	–	Warranty 12 months or 50,000 pages
Scanning and copying
Does
Does	Print, Scan and Copy	Print, Scan and Copy
Document feeder
Document feeder	No	No
Scanner
Scanner	Flatbed CIS scanner, A4/Letter; 600 × 1,200 dpi optical	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 copy in about 25 seconds, 2.9 ipm; borderless, 2-on-1 and 4-on-1, frame erase and ID copy; up to 99 copies; 25–400% zoom	–
Paper
Largest paper
Largest paper	A4	A3
Paper tray
Paper tray	100 sheets	100 sheets
Paper sizes
Paper sizes	A4, A5, A6, B5, Letter, Legal, 10 × 15 cm, 13 × 18 cm, 18 × 25 cm, 20 × 25 cm, 127 and 89 mm squares, 55 × 91 mm cards, envelopes (DL, COM10, C5, Monarch), custom 55–216 mm wide by 89–1,200 mm long	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, fine art, magnetic and restickable papers, iron-on transfers and cardstock; photo paper up to about 275 g/m²	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, Wi-Fi Direct and USB	Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB
Connection detail
Connection detail	Hi-Speed USB; Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n, 2.4 GHz); Wireless Direct; PictBridge over Wi-Fi	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, Creative Park	Epson Smart Panel; Epson Photo+ and Epson ScanSmart on a computer
Control panel
Control panel	2-line monochrome LCD	10.9 cm colour touchscreen
Design
Weight
Weight	6.6 kg	11.1 kg
Power use
Power use	About 16 W copying, 1.2 W standby (all ports connected), 0.2 W off; TEC 0.18 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 50.5 dB(A)	37 dB(A) printing photos on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper
Size
Size	445 × 340 × 167 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