Epson · EcoTank
EcoTank ET-8550
Epson's six-colour A3+ ink tank photo all-in-one, with an A4 flatbed scanner, SD card slot and a rear feed for thick fine art paper and CDs.
- Type
- Ink tank
- Colour
- Yes
- Does
- Print, Scan, Copy
- Pages a minute
- 16
- Both sides
- Yes
What reviewers say
Reviewers agree it produces excellent, detailed photo prints up to A3+ and is far cheaper to run than cartridge photo printers, with good documents too. The common criticisms are the high purchase price and small paper trays; TechRadar found two-sided printing slow, and Expert Reviews noted some colour inaccuracy and thought Canon's PIXMA PRO-200 produces better photos for less.
From techradar.com, expertreviews.co.uk and rtings.com
Specifications
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- Type
- Ink tank
- Colour
- Yes
- Speed, black
- 16 pages a minute
- Speed, colour
- 12 pages a minute
- Resolution
- 5760 × 1440 dpi
- Prints both sides
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Duty cycle
- Warranty 12 months or 50,000 pages
Scanning and copying
- Does
- Print, Scan and Copy
- Document feeder
- No
- 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
Paper
- Largest paper
- A3
- Paper tray
- 100 sheets
- 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
- Paper types
- Plain paper 64–90 g/m²; photo, fine art and thick media up to 1.3 mm through the rear straight path
- Output tray
- 50 sheets of plain paper or 20 of premium glossy photo paper
Connections
- Connects by
- Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Direct and USB
- 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
- Printing from phones
- Apple AirPrint, Mopria Print Service, Mopria Scan, Epson Connect (Email Print, Remote Print Driver, Scan-to-Cloud)
- App
- Epson Smart Panel; Epson Photo+ and Epson ScanSmart on a computer
- Control panel
- 10.9 cm colour touchscreen
Design
- Weight
- 11.1 kg
- 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
- Noise
- 37 dB(A) printing photos on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper
- Size
- 523 × 379 × 169 mm (W × D × H)
- In the box
- Printer, ink set, power cable, driver and utilities CD, quick start guide, warranty document
Pros and cons
Pros
- Prints borderless photos up to A3+
- Six inks, including photo black and grey
- Rear straight-through feed for card up to 1.3 mm, and CD/DVD printing
Cons
- Scanner is flatbed only, with no document feeder
- No fax
- 11.1 kg and 523 mm wide
Closest rivals
Model | Type | Colour | Does | Pages a minute | Both sides | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ink tank | Yes | Print, Scan, Copy | 15 | Yes | Sept 2021 | |
| Ink tank | Yes | Print, Scan, Copy, Fax | 15.5 | Yes | Oct 2021 | |
| Ink tank | Yes | Print, Scan, Copy | 18 | Yes | Nov 2022 |
