Customer Ratings & Reviews

Happy 100%. "Just buy" it was a review I saw when buying. I replaced an older HP cartridge ink jet that was very costly and inefficient with ink. This have been great. It was easy to set up using the mobile app - despite others reviews. While Im tech savy I just followed the app prompts. Ive used this to print duplex / double sided, color, black, photo paper and 70 holiday envelopes from a mail merge. The scan/copy is pretty fast too. Print speed is fast and Im very happy with the ink use. Im not incentived writing this besides a chance to win a gc. I think my only issue is some printer menu prompts that are easy to go and click through when printing to different paper sizes and a print spooler queue issue from my android when printing multiple docs (solved by error retry). - some learning to do for me.

This replaced my dried up old cheap Epson printer from 10 years ago. It's only been a few weeks but it works swimmingly so far. Easy to set up, and I love the bottle ink instead of cartridges (I hate those things). I still haven't exactly figured out the color configuration and all that, but that's not the printer's fault. Great for normal, run of the mill printing though, which is mostly what I need anyway.

I’m very happy with the Epson EcoTank ET-2980. The print quality is excellent, and I’ve been especially impressed with how great photos look. The colors come out bright, sharp, and detailed, much better than I expected from a home printer. The EcoTank system is also a huge plus since you don’t have to constantly replace expensive ink cartridges. Setup was easy, printing is straightforward, and everything I’ve printed so far has looked clean and professional. If you want a reliable printer with great everyday print quality and amazing-looking photos, I definitely recommend the Epson ET-2980.

Working great love it had a earlier model lasted 10 years prints great pictures and easy to use best thing cheap ink pays for it self in no time

Love this printer! Sets up easy and I can easily print from any device on our WiFi…including my iPhone!!

This is my second Epson, replacing a 10+ year old printer, for home use. Great print quality. I scan lots of pictures and am very happy with this feature.

Prints good,nice option to see the ink levels. I like I can wirelessly print from my phone

Great printer. The paper sits open in the back - no paper tray - and the screen display is VERY small. I’m not a big fan of that, but overall it’s a great machine. I love the refillable ink tank. So easy and efficient.

I hate this printer. The screen is the size of a quarter and it CONSTANTLY has issues that take a really long time to resolve. You can see both a random error message and the size of the tiny screen next to my thumb in the photo. I never know if I will be able to print when I need to. I considered giving it 1 star since the ink seems to last a really long time, but I couldn't give it that much considering how unreliable it is. Would NOT recommend!

Prints better and faster than my old HP printer. I like the low cost of the ink. The only negative so far is the size of the screen. It is only 1 inch by 1 inch making it difficult to read.

Works well and prints double sided!! Very simple to use and fun it figure out. Ink is easy to refill too!

The product is great and all your need is in this printer

It has a simple set up, its a nice size for a small room, works great.

Had to switch to this from an HP. We had too many problems with the HP. I love how fast this prints. Bought this printer for my daughter, who's in college.She's a biochemistry major.

Do not buy, I have been having not stop issues with this model ET-2980 brand new! We got this for Christmas and due to the holidays, didn’t have time to setup. After finally setting this up, I have nothing but trouble getting it to print, without having to reboot the printer each time I use it. I have spent days trying different things to try and figure out what the problem is. I reset the printer, uninstalled all software and rerun the setup to fix the issue. The problem I am having is, I keep the printer on “idle” and when I need to print and scan, there is no network printers available. I try and manually restart the machine and when I do it either takes forever to shut down, like 20-30 minutes, or an error code gets displayed or it doesn’t shut down until I remove the power cable and reboot and it will work like it’s supposed too. Before this printer I had a HP8600 for almost 13-15 years without a single issue! This is horrible and now can’t return it to Best Buy since it’s past my return window and need to go to Epson directly. Be aware look for other brands or models before this one!

Very nice printer, fast and reliable. Had a little difficulty getting it to hook to the wifi

We ordered Epson ET 2980, the product quality is super diooper 100 percent good quality , we try it already because and we love it and I recommend this product

Excellent printer, no issues, likes the ink bottles, and highly recommend buying.

The instructions will get you to load the 4 ink bottles (keep in mind once the ink is loaded the printer should not be tipped (keep it level)); all are keyed so they can only be put into the correct tanks, note there will be a little ink left in each bottle, re-cap set them aside, we'll get back to them later. It takes a couple of minutes per bottle. The app will ask you to confirm you've loaded the ink, then the LCD screen and app will let you know it's started the initialization process, this takes about 10-12 minutes. During this time the printer sucks some ink from the large tanks into its internal reservoirs, and does a lot of repositioning. You should now load some paper. At the end of the process it will ask you to print a series of alignment pages. On each of these pages you will be asked which of several images is better (closest to perfect alignment). Choose the appropriate image number and move through each of the alignment tests (these can be re-done from the maintenance menu). Once aligned you will be asked how you want to connect your printer to your PC/network. For most you will use WiFi to connect to your internal network (you can also connect to a PC via USB or use WiFi direct to the printer). I used WiFi to my home network; the printer can connect to all common WiFi networks (2.4 & 5gHz). It will show you the networks you can connect to and if your phone has saved a password for that network it will be used otherwise it will allow you to specify the network's password from the app. I believe it also supports WPS (where you push a button on your router to add a product), but I did not try this. Now the printer is ready to use, you just need to install software on the device(s) you want to use it from. I started with a Windows 11 install based on a link the app provided. The download was very straightforward. Before running the software install make sure that your computer is on the same WiFi network you selected for the printer. Now proceed with the install, which will install drivers and Epson application software, the software should automatically find your printer (it did for me). At the end it will ask you to print a test page, if all went well it will emerge from the printer a few seconds later (it did for me). Setup also lets you set up the printer as a cloud device (giving it an email address you can send to it to print) and for MS "One Drive" printing as well as setup for iOS/Android devices. The Smart Panel installed software to set up my iPhone to be able to print to the printer. A very easy operation. So, so far, so good. My test pages all came out properly from my various devices. At this point I recommend adding the leftover ink from each of the ink bottles to the printer, there is not much, but the will nearly fill the reservoirs, the bottles can then be discarded (note the ink refill size is 502 (you're likely to need more in a couple of years). I did a number of tests with color copies, I found that the default density setting of 0 for copies was a little light, changing the default to +1 improved the results. All the text that I printed was extremely sharp, most excellent. I then loaded some 4x6 HQ Canon photo paper and sent the printer my first photo. It was very good, but not perfectly true colors, the darkest areas were an inky black. The yellow and blues were pretty true, but the deep dark reds, here just a tad light, more dark pink than dark red. Flesh colors were very good, quite acceptable. I guess it will probably be fine for 95% of the print's I make (no worse than what I expect from Walgreens/CVS digital prints). Maybe with more use the quality will improve/change (I only tested 3 prints I sent directly) one that I scanned had the same not quite deep red issue, and you could see it did not have the full resolution of the original. I've attached a series of color copies showing density-1,0,+1 & the original, here again you can see the red heart is a bit pink, but all else (especially the last +1) looks great. I compared the printer's output to my Laser printer (1200dpi) . The mono output from this printer was just as crisp, and the gray scale output just as good as what the laser produced. This EcoTank 2980 prints 15 ppm in black and 8 ppm with color (single sided; half this for double sided). Finally in summary, this printer is a great buy, especially if you consider the total cost to output the first 8,500 pages/prints. On my previous ink jet printer I could not get 200 pages out of one set of cartridges. I've previously bought new printers to avoid replacing cartridges (and with each generation there are different cartridge #s). I'm pleased to see that Epson has not changed ink bottle types (502) since they introduced Eco Tanks. Yet they have improved the software and speed of their printers. I'm accustomed to duplex printing, and would not buy another printer without it. The printer can handle 2 paper sizes via the rear paper feeder (yea). I highly recommend this printer, unless you're expecting truly HQ photos, in which case I don't think you'll be satisfied. But for any plain paper printing and most 'family' photos this is a great buy.

It took three weeks to get the printer to sink to the computer. instructions not very clear. Four times I went back to the store for help.