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expired Posted by Navy-Wife | Staff • Oct 3, 2024
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**Start 10/8 12AM ET** Walmart+ Members: Epson EcoTank ET-2850 Wireless Color All-in-One Cartridge-Free Supertank Printer (White) $139 + Free Shipping
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Both can print better photos than my canon color laser, but I do love my laser for text and documents.
I just double checked. I've got a 2800 for sublimation and 8550 for photos.
https://epson.com/certified-renew...s-scanners
Both can print better photos than my canon color laser, but I do love my laser for text and documents.
I just double checked. I've got a 2800 for sublimation and 8550 for photos.
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Photo print quality depends on good paper , print settings, (Epson glossy photo paper or better, best photo mode vs normal) and a lot on the Number of color inks.
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If you've ever painted watercolors, try to get a pure, vibrant orange by mixing blue (cyan) + red (magenta) + yellow and you'll know that you can't.
Mixed colors are never as vibrant as pure inks, but this is how newspaper, magazine, and book publishing works - use a few ink colors to simulate the wide range of colors.
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Most of these common inkjets use 3 colors besides black (cyan, magenta, yellow). Average quality prints - newspaper/magazines. Most 4-color Epson printers.
The level for prints you look at for a few seconds then stash away for years, maybe never looking at it again.
Some have 4 color inks, or maybe 3 colors + photo black - walmart photo print quality.
A few 5-color Epson tank and cartridge printers.
Eg xp-6100, et-7750
This is the minimum level I'd go with if you look a 4x6" prints now and then, eg desk photo or wall photo.
Some have 5 colors + black. Cyan, magenta, yellow, light cyan, light magenta is a common Epson 6-color inkjet setup - better than common 35mm photo prints.
Xp-970, xp-8500
This is the level I would go for if you're after satisfying photo prints for albums and amateur competitions that can be framed and mounted.
Expect 5-10 years before these inks fade with uv light exposure, 10-20 behind glass, 30+ in an album.
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Beyond that, what to do about Longevity and Hard to Duplicate colors?
https://epson.com/pro-photo-print...g#print
Pro-level printers with 10+ colors and Pigmented inks that'll last 50+ years mounted behind glass.
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Naturally, more ink colors = higher operating costs.
So many will stop at the 6-color Epsons printers - balance of cost vs nice quality.
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I've got a PTA wife and two kids in public schools. We print too often for me to worry too much about that issue. I would have liked an official statement about how long does it take.
The tops of the tanks on mine are closed. Maybe even sealed, so it doesn't slosh around if I pick it up to move it.
Maybe it was more an issue on the first generations.
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For basic printing it does well and ink consumption is very low and replacement ink is very inexpensive. I will say that it prints on the slower side. Scanning is painful on this thing, I recently built a new computer and I cannot get scanning to work with Windows 11 (I had it setup with Windows 10 previously). To be fair I haven't spent more than 15 minutes troubleshooting it but it's going to involve me getting deeper into the troubleshooting of it.
I find I have to clean the heads very often on this, I maybe use it once a month.
I bought the Canon G3270 for $80 on a Slickdeals special from Lenovo shortly after and it is significantly better in every way.