Epson EcoTank ET-3950 vs Epson EcoTank ET-8550

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EcoTank ET-3950 compared with EcoTank ET-8550

	EpsonEcoTank ET-3950	EpsonEcoTank ET-8550
Overview
Released
Released	September 2025	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	9 pages a minute	12 pages a minute (better)
Resolution
Resolution	4800 × 1200 dpi	5760 × 1440 dpi
Prints both sides
Prints both sides	Yes	Yes
Printing detail
Printing detail	PrecisionCore print head, 400 black nozzles and 128 per colour; 3.3 pl minimum droplet; automatic 2-sided printing on A4 plain paper at 7 pages a minute black and 5 colour (ISO/IEC 24734); borderless printing; up to 35 pages a minute black and 23 colour in draft on 75 g/m² paper	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	8.5 seconds black, 13.5 seconds colour (ISO/IEC 17629)	–
Ink or toner
Ink or toner	Pigment black and dye cyan, magenta and yellow in refillable tanks; 127 ml black and 70 ml colour bottles	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	Ink in the box (a full set plus an extra black) prints 15,100 pages black and 5,500 colour	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	Built for up to 100,000 pages over its life; warranty 12 months or 100,000 pages	Warranty 12 months or 50,000 pages
Scanning and copying
Does
Does	Print, Scan and Copy	Print, Scan and Copy
Document feeder
Document feeder	Yes	No
Scanner
Scanner	Contact image sensor (CIS) with flatbed and 30-page document feeder; 2-sided scanning from the feeder; 1,200 × 2,400 dpi optical; feeder 5 ipm 1-sided and 3.5 ipm 2-sided, black or colour; flatbed A4 in 9 seconds black and 21 seconds colour; saves BMP, JPEG, PICT, TIFF, multi-TIFF, PDF and PNG	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	2-sided copying from the document feeder (A4 plain paper)	–
Paper
Largest paper
Largest paper	A4	A3
Paper tray
Paper tray	250 sheets (better)	100 sheets
Paper sizes
Paper sizes	A4, A5, A6, B5, B6, Letter, 10 × 15 cm, 13 × 18 cm, envelopes (No. 10, DL, C6)	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	64–300 g/m² (300 g/m² with Epson Ultra Glossy Photo Paper)	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	30 sheets; opens automatically when a job starts	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	USB; Ethernet; Wi-Fi 5 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac) on 2.4 and 5 GHz; Wi-Fi 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 Print Service, Mopria Scan, Epson Connect (Email Print, Remote Print Driver, Scan-to-Cloud)	Apple AirPrint, Mopria Print Service, Mopria Scan, Epson Connect (Email Print, Remote Print Driver, Scan-to-Cloud)
App
App	Epson Smart Panel	Epson Smart Panel; Epson Photo+ and Epson ScanSmart on a computer
Control panel
Control panel	6.1 cm colour LCD	10.9 cm colour touchscreen
Design
Weight
Weight	7.2 kg	11.1 kg
Power use
Power use	15 W copying (ISO/IEC 24712), 6.9 W ready, 0.6 W sleep, 0.1 W off; TEC 0.09 kWh a week	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	–	37 dB(A) printing photos on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper
Size
Size	375 × 347 × 240 mm (W × D × H)	523 × 379 × 169 mm (W × D × H)
In the box
In the box	Printer, one set of ink bottles (127 ml black; 70 ml cyan, magenta and yellow) plus an extra black, power cable, quick setup guide, warranty document	Printer, ink set, power cable, driver and utilities CD, quick start guide, warranty document