Epson EcoTank Pro ET-5850 Wireless All-in-One Printer

I highly recommend the ET-5850 and would definitely purchase this printer again (but hopefully won’t have to for at least 5 years!)
PROS: My documents must be professional quality when I send them to the Judge and my Epson ET-5850 gives excellent quality documents. I did not give any stars to tech support because I haven’t needed tech support – set-up instructions were straight-forward and simple and use is just as easy, and I am not a tech-savvy person. NOTE: Be sure to download the Epson Smart-Scan for easy scanning. I tried to scan some other way and it was frustrating, until I read more instructions. Ah ha! now scanning is a mouse-click away.
ANSWERS TO CRITICS: I was worried by a few reviews such as “almost all the ink was used by set-up”. MY ANSWER: the description in Amazon says more ink will be used in set-up than on a daily basis and its true. I was left with at least 1/2 the ink after set-up. However, after approx 40 days, my daily use barley made a dent in the remaining ink levels, which are easy to see on the ink-level panel on the front of the machine. My machine came with a full extra round of ink bottles so I’m good for quite a while. Further, the price of the ink bottles is less $ than the cartridges for my old Epson WorkForce3640. Another concern a reviewer had was the “noise” during printing. MY ANSWER: The ET 5850 is not any louder than other printers I had and is quieter than laser printers I’ve worked with. Also not messy like some laser printers. People also were concerned about the cost. MY ANSWER: 1) the ET-5850 is a high quality printer; 2) In 40 days, I’ve already saved the cost of 1 set of ink cartridges (at a cost of about $70 monthly) as I had no need to replace ink; 3) This is not a disposable printer but is a solid piece of office equipment I expect to have for a few years.
CONS OR DOWNSIDE(S): There is a delay between when I hit print and when the printer begins printing, enough so that I wonder if the ET-5850 received my print request – then the printing begins. Also, the printing is slower than expected. I saw on the box this is an “ultra-high-speed” printer. hmm, not so much. I may check my instructions again to see if I can speed things up. OVERALL: I am quite pleased I spent the extra money and got a quality product with expected savings of time and money from fewer trips to the office supply store.
Robin G, South Dakota

I purchased this Epson color printer/copier/scanner/fax machine based on it’s features, price for replacement supplies, the 2 year free ink promo and it’s cosmetic appearance with large color LCD display/control panel. So far it’s a winner in all of these categories. Easy to set up. I placed it on a mobile file cabinet so I could wheel it out if I needed to work on the printer as well as have a place for additional ink and paper.

The printer is very fast when using an ethernet connection as opposed to wireless. Wireless works fine but the printer is noticeably slower. Color rendering is incredible. Not sure what some of the negative reviewers are talking about but I’m 100% satisfied and highly recommend.

Bought this printer in particular because of the full duplex scanning capability. The connectivity options on this printer are great. For scanning I just created a shared folder on my computer and the printer drops all the scans into there. Print quality is excellent and fast too.

I had a pagewide before so I guess I was a little spoiled with speed. But that one had expensive cartridges. This one has a preset for scanning to one drive with only 3 touches.. awesome. Prints, scans and copies pretty fast. I print a lot during the day and this printer does the job very well. Noticeably slower when printing duplex or high quaility. Still plenty fast for printing 1-10 pages at a time. If you want anything faster, get a pagewide. Ink tank levels are visible, very smart feature. My only real complaint as that it is a little noisy when printing, but other than that 10/10. I would definitely buy again.