Epson EcoTank ET-8550 vs HP Smart Tank 7305

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EcoTank ET-8550 compared with Smart Tank 7305

	EpsonEcoTank ET-8550	HPSmart Tank 7305
Overview
Released
Released	April 2021	September 2021
Printing
Type
Type	Ink tank	Ink tank
Colour
Colour	Yes	Yes
Speed, black
Speed, black	16 pages a minute (better)	15 pages a minute
Speed, colour
Speed, colour	12 pages a minute (better)	9 pages a minute
Resolution
Resolution	5760 × 1440 dpi	4800 × 1200 dpi
Prints both sides
Prints both sides	Yes	Yes
Printing detail
Printing detail	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	Automatic two-sided printing; borderless up to A4; draft speeds up to 23 ppm black, 22 ppm colour; print language HP PCL 3 GUI; 800 MHz processor, 256 MB memory
First page out
First page out	–	As fast as 14 sec black, 16 sec colour (A4, ready)
Resolution detail
Resolution detail	–	Up to 1200 x 1200 rendered dpi black; up to 4800 x 1200 optimised dpi colour (1200 input dpi)
Ink or toner
Ink or toner	Claria ET Premium; pigment black plus dye photo black, cyan, magenta, yellow and grey in refillable tanks; 114 EcoTank bottles, 70 ml each	Refillable tanks filled from HP 32XL black (135 ml) and HP 31 cyan, magenta and yellow (70 ml) bottles; replaceable black and tri-colour printheads
Page yield
Page yield	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)	HP 32XL black bottle: ~6,000 pages; HP 31 colour bottles: ~8,000 pages each; bottles in the box (UK): ~15,200 pages black, ~9,600 pages colour in draft mode
Duty cycle
Duty cycle	Warranty 12 months or 50,000 pages	Up to 5,000 pages a month (A4); 400 to 800 pages recommended
Scanning and copying
Does
Does	Print, Scan and Copy	Print, Scan and Copy
Document feeder
Document feeder	No	Yes
Scanner
Scanner	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	Flatbed (up to 216 x 297 mm) and 35-sheet automatic document feeder (up to 216 x 356 mm); up to 1200 dpi optical; up to 8 ipm black, 3.5 ipm colour (A4, 200 ppi); JPG, PDF, PNG, TIFF
Copying
Copying	–	Up to 13 cpm black, 6 cpm colour (ISO, A4); up to 99 copies; 25 to 400%; ID copy
Paper
Largest paper
Largest paper	A3	A4
Paper tray
Paper tray	100 sheets	250 sheets (better)
Paper sizes
Paper sizes	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	A4, A5, A6, B5 (JIS), envelopes (DL, C5, C6), cards; custom 88.9 x 127 to 215.9 x 355.6 mm
Paper types
Paper types	Plain paper 64–90 g/m²; photo, fine art and thick media up to 1.3 mm through the rear straight path	Plain, photo, matte and glossy brochure papers, envelopes, labels, cards; plain paper 60 to 105 g/m², photo paper up to 250 g/m²
Output tray
Output tray	50 sheets of plain paper or 20 of premium glossy photo paper	100 sheets
Connections
Connects by
Connects by	Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB	Wi-Fi, Ethernet, USB and Wi-Fi Direct
Connection detail
Connection detail	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	Hi-Speed USB 2.0; Gigabit Ethernet; dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4 and 5 GHz); Wi-Fi Direct
Printing from phones
Printing from phones	Apple AirPrint, Mopria Print Service, Mopria Scan, Epson Connect (Email Print, Remote Print Driver, Scan-to-Cloud)	HP app, Apple AirPrint, Mopria, HP Print Service Plugin (Android), Wi-Fi Direct
App
App	Epson Smart Panel; Epson Photo+ and Epson ScanSmart on a computer	HP app
Control panel
Control panel	10.9 cm colour touchscreen	2-line LCD (70 x 12 mm) with guided buttons
Design
Weight
Weight	11.1 kg	7.7 kg
Power use
Power use	17 W copying (ISO/IEC 24712), 7.5 W ready, 0.8 W sleep, 0.3 W off; TEC 0.16 kWh a week	1.10 W sleep, 0.1 W off; TEC 0.20 kWh a week
Noise
Noise	37 dB(A) printing photos on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper	6.5 B(A) sound power, 59.4 dB(A) sound pressure (printing at 10 ppm)
Size
Size	523 × 379 × 169 mm (W × D × H)	427.5 x 364 x 240.3 mm (W x D x H); up to 453.55 x 440.73 x 249.63 mm with trays extended
In the box
In the box	Printer, ink set, power cable, driver and utilities CD, quick start guide, warranty document	Printer, 2 HP 32XL black bottles, HP 31 cyan, magenta and yellow bottles, black and tri-colour printheads, setup guide, reference guide, power cord