I recently purchased an Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550 printer to be able to make prints more affordably, and I've been extremely impressed with the printer.

The output ray is motorised and it glides out a full 27cm, pushing open the front flap with no fuss whenever you want to print. A printer for the modern user, the EcoTank ET-8550 allows you to print, scan, and more directly from your phone or tablet using the Epson Smart Panel app*, or print from SD cards and USB flash drives through the 10. When printing multiple copies of the same letter, using only black ink, the ET-8550 averages 15ppm (pages per minute), with the first sheet landing on the out tray in 13 seconds. The Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550 and the Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-300 are both excellent photo printers. Pigment printers do have a slight advantage with fine art and matte media types, and viewers were a bit more discerning, picking the pigment printers as generally better than those on the ET-8500.The image processing boosts the contrast and makes colors look more saturated, which is helpful when scanning documents, but it might not be ideal if you want to digitize photos and expect them to look exactly like the originals.

When comparing ET-8500 black-and-white prints with those from Canon’s Pro-200, some reviewers felt that there were some images where Canon produced a more truly neutral print, noting that the ET-8500’s print had a very slight cool tint to it, but it depended upon the photo, the lighting, and the media used 7 In general, when producing black-and-white prints, dye inks tend to display much more variability under different lighting conditions than pigments. Pros: Excellent print quality, especially on glossy and semigloss paper types; high-capacity ink tanks with ink costs that dwarf those of dedicated photo printers; flexible paper handling options, including a straight print path for papers up to 1. With this software you can scan images in color, grayscale, or black and white and obtain professional quality results. While most four-color supertank printers that I looked at in the past were capable of printing photos, I rarely saw prints that were anywhere near the quality level that we have come to expect from specialized photo printers, 1 To be fair, most dedicated photo printers generally have six to 12 ink colors, which provides a wider gamut than is possible with the standard cyan, magenta, yellow, black (CMYK) inksets. The pigment black is slightly warm whilst the dye black is not such a good black, in spectral response terms.We've been using a full production version of this 120 fps sports camera, to see what you gain (and, perhaps, lose). Other than this upper limit of paper thickness, we experienced no other misprints or paper jams and would say that overall it handles all kinds of paper very well. When comparing the ET-8500 output with glossy and luster pigment prints from the P900 and the Pro-300, many viewers sensed a difference, but generally picked the ET-8500 as their favorite; there was just something about the vibrancy of the photos from the ET-8500, especially on glossy media. Epson’s Velvet Fine Art, for example, produced lovely prints with fine detail, as did Epson’s Premium Matte paper.