Whether you’re printing monochrome or colour photos, or plain word documents, the results are always excellent. He authored or co-authored 20 books—including titles in the popular Bible, Secrets, and For Dummies series—on digital design and desktop publishing software applications.

The option only works when the printer is connected via a USB connection, and you have to jump through a few hoops in the driver to turn it on, although you can save the settings as a preset. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This is easy to use and provides a choice of printing and scanning possibilities, from photo printing to document capture.

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. I believe that the discernible qualitative difference between this and the P Series is there, but from normal viewing distances the ET-8550 output would probably hold-up fine for my intended (non- art gallery) audience. The ET-8550 is a premium photo printer with a refillable ink tank, while the XP-7100 is a general-purpose printer for home use.

It is slightly disappointing that the scanner is only A4 sized, but it does make very accurate photocopies thanks to the high resolution of both printer and scanner.

The text in Economy prints is jagged, but readable, and graphics are ok, especially if you’re looking at printed webpages (like those from Google Maps). I also profiled a number of Epson higher-end papers, including Exhibition Fiber and Legacy Fibre, as well as quite a few third-party papers from Red River, Canson, and others. When you consider that the ET-8500 is essentially a five-ink photo printer (one of the blacks plus CMY/Gray), the prints that come from this printer are pretty amazing. Document Scanning Software Scan and share documents and receipts with confidence using easy scanning options, editing and integration tools. Canon’s Pixma PRO-200 inks yield an average of 550 photos for a full set of inks, which works out to around 27p per print.

The bottles have specific keys for each ink tank, so you can't accidentally put the wrong ink in any tank. My laptop display isn't calibrated, although I do edit most of my images on a calibrated external monitor.The sixth ink is a pigment-based black which is better for text documents because it is more robust than dye. Whether you’re printing snapshots of family life, travel photos, or artwork that you’d like to put on your wall (or a friend’s wall), the prints from the ET-8500 and ET-8550 are rich, vibrant and full of life. Epson’s materials boast that ET-8500’s Claria inks give you “enough ink to print 6,200 color pages,” but that is for basic ISO ratings in the default printing mode, not for photos. Unlike most supertank printers, the ink tank's tubing mechanism is in a protected area, so it's out of the user's way when removing paper jams. It has a scanner but lacks an automatic document feeder, which isn't ideal for offices that often scan long, multi-page documents.