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5++++
IF I COULD GIVE 10 STARS, I WOULD!
EPSON IS THE ABSOLUTE BEST. I plugged the printer in, hooked to wi-fi, downloaded the EPSON app and it immediately found the printer, connected, updated firmware. Worked. Everything worked in less than 10 min.
I had an hp printer, “had” being the key word here. I spent literally HOURS of my life going around and around and around, trying to get it to sync up on my phone with their app. which cannot automatically find the printer and once manually entered by IP address, won’t show up in the app. They have so much going on with their auto ink scam, that the functionality of their printers and their app are all compromised. Not to mention the 17 emails I got while trying to do a simple task of connecting my printer. Emails prompting me to complete the setup. …it was set up. Over and over again! Grrr! I even paid for a subscription and still spent more HOURS of my life, looking up troubleshooting, reading blogs, reading their website suggestions and even contacting them. All failed. Will never buy hp again.
Thank you soooooo much EPSON. I can’t tell you how happy I am!
Beautiful print quality on my ET-2803 btw.Show lessHeatherBelleApple
Ink
I very tied of you guys blocking my printer with the notice to upgrade. Just so you can control me, after I paid you for the printer that should be MINE! You want to tell me who’s and what ink to buy. I hate control and not letting Am-r-Rican out of debt. Church for your printer and leave us alone. We’re not a communist country. In fact, we’re not a country at all it’s a business..
Shame.
Rise your price on the printer, leave choses what ever we want and if the heads get clogged with the cheeper ink then we’ll buy another printer.
Every time I want to air print I got to get up and dismiss your “request for an update “ i don’t want your update! I want to stay in my wheelchair and print without have to get up where the printer is mounted and worry about falling because of you control.
Ed RodriguezShow lessRiccoh Rodriguez
Printing photos
Ok, so I got this printer about a couple of months ago. I haven’t tried printing documents yet. I basically got it to print labels for my business, that part works well. I had a photo of my husband and my self I wanted to print out, just a 4x6. The printer kept telling me wrong paper size, I checked and rechecked and it was right for what I wanted. Printed photo and about 1/2 way through printing, the paper slides and I ended up with a “rainbow “ effect on the end of my photo. So I printed again and same thing happened. I gave a 2 star because money is money theses days and you should be able to print good quality photos but not with this. Would I buy again? Yes, only for printing labels . Buy anther printer for photos because this one isn’t worth the money.Show lesscarolinagirl2781
Epson hate Apple
Epson seems to universally make their products difficult if not impossible to use with Apple products. While claiming that Epson printers are AirPrint compatible, I have yet to ever get an Epson printer to consistently work with AirPrint. I have returned 3 Epson printers and replaced them with Brother or Canon because those brands live up to their claims of being AirPrint compatible. The only reason I’m keeping the Epson printer I just bought is because it’s for my business which requires I use a PC for software reasons. But for my personal use I am exclusively Apple having am iPhone, 3 iPads, and a Mac, none of which can consistently connect to this printer via AirPrint. I managed somehow to get the stars to align and printed from one of my iPads twice but have not been able to get the iPad and printer connected since. However this stupid app, which I shouldn’t need since the printer is AirPrint compatible, can see the printer, no problem. That means that the printer is on the network and this iPad can see it but AirPrint isn’t working. There is little to no information about troubleshooting the AirPrint connection in the Epson documentation so I have to conclude that Epson is trying to force Apple users to use the Epson apps rather than AirPrint which is for the birds. I guess this printer will have to go back to the store too.Show lessCheriMo
Excellent and easy
Super easy to use from my iPhone ! Has been wey practical and besides the negative few comments I have had no issues at all with the app, in fact I’m not tech savvy at all and have been able to connect to my wifi again easily following the online guidelines . App is very user friendly and isn’t overly complicated !! I recommended this app to a friend and she purchased a printer from this company as well ! FantasticShow lessT Angie
Default settings
Frustrated with default paper setting from PC, MAC and iPhones. I have wasted dozens of glossy pages on docs AND TIME when they expecting default plain paper. Read all help pages dozens of times. Family using apps doesn't have familiarity with all app settings; they just want to open app and print. Otherwise, have had the ET-8500 for a year and LOVE the print quality and ink management! If you can update the bios to automatically retract the print tray 30min after use, I’d up my rating to 4 stars.Show lessBogusfeedback
Doesn’t Automatically Choose Paper Size
While I love that you don’t waste cartridges, this printer is very frustrating because it doesn’t automatically select the paper size like our Canon printer did. It is very difficult to print pictures from you phone because you have to manually select the paper size in the printed, even if you’ve inserted photo paper. So, you have to put the settings in twice. Given how difficult this printer is to use to print photos and other files, I would definitely NOT purchase again. Our old Canon printer was much easier.Show lessTTH&R
Should work independent from App
Really? I have to keep the screen open on the app otherwise the print cancels? Seems like once the printer has received the information, it should be stored local and not need to tether to the app. Just starting off with this printing and downgrading to this one. All of your troubleshooting links are missing and don’t connect to anything. ALL of them. Seems like a forgotten product.Show lessDan Pepper
Constantly disconnects, then nowhere to be found!
When we first got this printer, we liked it; despite it having no touch screen, it seemed to work okay. And we were lured in by the economical ink use. However, it seems like every time we want to print, it has disconnected, and it cannot be found! 😡 Then we have to start setup all over again, and over again, and over again, and over again, ad infinitum! 😡. Do you know what it’s like to try entering a complex wifi password on their tiny “keyboard” with no touch screen? A very time consuming process that would be bad enough if we only had to do it once, but absolute torture to have to do it every other day! Grrrr! 😡Today I tried numerous times to re-connect this thing, but it failed every single time, both with wifi, and with the Ethernet connection, nothing worked! 😡. I’m getting pretty disgusted with this terrible printer, and pretty fed up! It’s still not connected, and it’s dead in the water, a pretty useless paperweight, as far as I can see right now! EPSON, why can’t you make a printer that actually consistently works, and stays connected to a network??? And don’t be blaming the network either, we have a very fast and very capable high speed network with a 1GB fiber connection, with most devices including this printer, connected through hard wired CAT8 Ethernet cables, except for our mobile devices. Epson, Let’s get your printer to consistently work for a change!Show lessRon Sauve
Wi-Fi
Just bought the 2400 eco tank model. Print speeds of black and white is great. Color is decent too. Photos are pretty slow. The app was pretty user friendly except when connecting to Wi-Fi. You just have to press the Wi-Fi button on the printer which I figured out on my own. Other than that setup was a breeze. I’m pretty happy over all. Prints over Wi-Fi easily from my phone if you select the documents from the app. The only part that is less than desirable is that it requires that you save the document then open the app and select that document to print it rather than it letting you print straight from an opened document. Overall would recommend this product.Show lessprinterreview2023
