EcoTank Photo ET-8500 Wireless Color All-in-One Supertank Printer

I have the ET8500 A4 printer and wish I had bought the A3 version for a £100 or so more.. I have just sold my Canon Pro 300 A3 plus printer. Basically the Epson printers are expensive and the ink is cheap. Epson make most of their money from the printer not the ink. For Canon the printers are quite expensive and the ink is VERY expensive. (see below) The prints from the Epson are very good especially as I do not use the top quality photo papers. Just Kolas Satin 250 g from Amazon that costs about £0.22 (UK) per sheet. Chat GPT estimates the ink cost of printing an A4 full colour photo as about £0.08 for the Epson and £2.00for the Canon. So I pay about £0.30 for each A4 print. I have a calibrated monitor and print from Photoshop. I have a action that adds brightness and a small colour correction to the file before printing. The results are usually a good match for the image on the screen. Occasionally I have to tweak the colour a bit and print another copy but at about £0.30 I do not mind. People at my camera club are impressed with the quality of the prints I produce and say they compare well against those from a top end printer like the Canon.

I should have also have said that the scanner in the ET 8500 is very good

We went from pixma to Epson ET-8500, eco tank with all colors filled with black. Refills are super clean and last a long time. No need to buy toner cartridges.

I have been happy with the Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8500 which I bought from B&H for about $750. It has a 8.5 x 14 inch scanner, so does not check that box (for that I have access to an Epson Expressions 13000XL-- that thing is expensive though). The Epson EcoTank accepts paper up to 13x19 inches. Like all inkjets, it needs special paper- I've found Inkpress to be a good budget line that has some papers that can be printed on both sides (especially the Duo Matte 80 paper). My one disappointment with the Epson EcoTank has been in how it handles text-- I've been happy with image and photo printing, but text is always printed much heavier than seems correct, especially when compared to the crisp type I get out of my laser printer (HP Color LaserJet Pro 3201).

i have an epson 8500 and it prints gorgeous photos especially when icc profile is used for specific papers, its almost as good as my old epson r800 pigment printer. But I should have bought the 8550 for so i can print 13in size,

Sorry, I meant the ET-8500 (I was reading another comment about the 2980). The ET-2800 only supports up to 12 mil and might work with 13–14 mil if I push it down, but it leaves heavy roller marks.