Customer Ratings & Reviews

Easy to refill, connected to my home network super easy. and the print quality is better than expected.

I bought one for my house and was so good that I bought other to my office

Quiet, fast and I love that I won’t have to keep replacing ink cartridges

This Epson-3930 printer is working out very well for me. It is user friendly - and I appreciate its simplicity.

It has been an excellent experience working with it!

As usual - Best Buy was there when our old printer crapped out. No waiting for an order, etc.

Best printer ever, easy to use, looks nice, great price.

Love this printer. It was easy to set up and works well. The service I got at Best Buy was top notch too!

It works Excellent and the beat part is its Ink tank.

Machine is nice. Just a little different setup than the other echo tanks

Perfect printer, very efficient !! Great purchase, I really enjoyed it

Colors and prints are beautiful. One of the best printers I have purchased.

good quality work ablity and easy to use. easy usable features

I love the quality and features of the Epson EcoTank printers. I've had one for 9 years. However, neither I nor Geek Squad could get this one to reliably connect with my home wireless network. Geeks indicated that I'm not the first to have this problem. Please fix the problem, Epson. I'd love to have the 3930 in my home office. Until then, I can't recommend this to anyone.

Great printer. However, box says Ethernet, but I can’t find the outlet. :( Also, Scanner driver has a major bug that forced me to find a go-around to get the computer talking to the unit. :((

It’s a fast printer that’s easy to install and doesn’t ink quickly.

The only thing is the print quality on this Epson is not like my old printer.

GOOD - Good print quality - Network sharing capabilities - Refillable ink tanks - Doesn't require a subscription service - No special software or driver required BAD - Expensive compared to many inkjet printers - Clunky paper output tray - No Touchscreen controls - Blinking status lights are annoying at night TLDR Epson's EcoTank printers are a great solution for those tired of being yanked around by expensive ink cartridges and printing functions being locked behind subscription paywalls. The Epson 3930 isn't the cheapest refillable tank printer, even in Epson's own line, but it has faster printing speed than many lower-costing printers and doesn't require any Epson account, subscription, or even special driver package installations to fully function. DETAILS Like many people, I've become increasingly frustrated with home printers. Replacement ink literally costs more than its weight in gold, ink cartridges are locked so you have to buy only one brand, and many printer functions and features get locked behind a subscription paywall as soon as your introductory trial is over. Inkjet printers can often be worse because if you only need to print something every once in a while, the print nozzles get gunked with dried ink and you waste a lot of your ink capacity on cleaning them just to print another few pages. So I figured I'd take a chance on this after my B&W laser printer "mysteriously" stopped working correctly after a firmware "update." So far it's been doing fairly well. It's nice again having the ability to print in color and quality has been very good. I printed off a few family photos on some leftover glossy paper I had and they turned out very nice. It also can connect over a network, both wired and wireless, so it's easy to share with every device on the house. It also has a USB connection, though it does not come with the required USB A-to-B cable in the box for using it that way. Perhaps best of all, none of this required any special software from Epson. Nothing requires you to create an account with Epson, sign up for a service trial, or download a monstrous driver suite with endless monitoring and maintenance software. Initial setup of the printer and filling the ink tanks can be done just using the included printed instructions. After the printer was setup, I simply added the printer through Windows settings alone. No forced downloads, no background daemons eating up system resources. I can open a browser to the printer's IP address on my network and do any configuration on it that I want. Scanning and copying functions are all available too. Of course, you can still use Epson's software if you want. There is a mobile application for your phone or tablet which will walk you step-by-step through the whole thing, again which doesn't require making an account or registering the printer. And there's the usual suite of drivers and utility software you can download from Epson. Have I mentioned you don't need to sign up for anything or create an account with Epson to use them? The printer isn't perfect. To start, it is quite a bit more expensive than other inkjet printers, even others in Epson's EcoTank line. However, the 3930 does print almost twice as fast as those baseline models. Hopefully this increased price is offset in years to come by not being gouged on replacement ink cartridges. As of this writing, replacement ink is about $25 for a big black bottle and $15 per smaller color ink bottles. Of course you can also buy off-brand ink for considerably less. The ink bottles that come with the printer are enough to fill it 100%. A little is leftover in the bottles after initial fill, but after the printer starts drawing the ink into the internal hoses and such, they're down to 75% so you can use the remainder in the bottle to top it back up. In terms of creature comforts, a few things could certainly be better. The output tray is quite clunky. You have to manually pull it out or push it in and it's quite stiff to do. This model also doesn't have a touchscreen ( the more expensive 3900 models do ), so navigating the small on-screen menu requires the buttons to the side of it. The power button light also blinks slowly when the printer goes to standby, so it's rather annoying at night unless you turn it on and off every day. In all, it seems like a good printer so far. I can't comment on ink efficiency as yet to say how long the tanks will last. And as this is an inkjet printer, I'm sure I'll have to clean the nozzles somewhat regularly if I'm not printing something at least every week. I'm sure that will waste some of the ink, but maybe with the refill bottles being less expensive, that won't be such an onerous thing.

I’ve been a big fan of Epson inkjet printers since they started making them. My last one was an RX-580 that has been a great printer for nearly 20 years now. That’s right – I bought it in 2006 and it’s now 2025. I really had no complaints about it except that the ink was very expensive. Over the years, I had tried some aftermarket ink, but it was never as good as original Epson ink, so I stuck with paying their prices, but it was worth it for the amazing quality. That printer also had an interesting feature which was a special tray that allowed printing directly on optical disc labels (CD/DVD). A few months back, I started having issues where it would not recognize the ink cartridges as being valid, even though I installed brand-new Epson branded ones. Also, when it would print, one of the colors was coming out with this odd rainbow effect, so it was time to replace my trust RX-580. I knew I wanted to stick with Epson, and I was very interested in their Eco-Tank system with less expensive ink that’s easy to refill. Features like scanning or even fast printing are not important – I have a business-class multifunction color laser printer for that. I came across this new ET-3930 printer and decided to give it a try. The price puts this on the upper end of most inkjets, but the lifetime saving on ink refills will definitely offset that. For perspective, replacing the ink in my old RX-580 cost nearly $80 and was rated for about 300 pages. The ink for the ET-3930 is about the same price, but rated page count is 20x more – that’s right, twenty times as many pages for the same money. Basically, the savings of just a few cartridge replacements will pay for this new ET-3930. Overall, I’d say the price of the printer is a good value. Setup was simple and using the phone app makes it easier. My old RX-580 was connected to my desktop computer via USB, but I decided to use a wired Ethernet connection for the ET-3930. That capability is one reason I chose this printer, because I prefer wired over Wi-Fi when possible. The printer came with a full-sized set of ink bottles – not “starter” ink. Filling the tank is simple and mess-free. Being able to see the actual ink levels via windows on the front of the printer is a great feature. I really like that the print head alignment uses the printer’s flatbed scanner to verify the patterns and automatically configures everything. Overall, it took about 15 minutes to unbox the printer and put it into operation. The ET-3930 is not a compact printer, so it will need some desk space. One reason for this is that the bottom-feed paper tray is totally enclosed, so the printer is about 14 inches deep, and 15 inches wide. It’s very similar in size to my old RX-580. The output tray does protrude another 6 inches from the printer, but it can be pushed back in and the door closed to hide it when not in use. A neat feature is that the output tray is motorized so if it is closed, it will automatically deploy when printing begins. The paper supply tray is not removeable. Standard paper can be loaded just by pushing it into the tray. If you need to adjust the guides for smaller sizes or envelopes, the tray does slide out about 9 inches for better access. The tray only has guides for width. It’s designed for paper up to 11 inches long, but it can also accept longer paper (i.e. legal) by letting it hang out of the tray. Loading smaller media is a hassle. The output tray has to be pushed back into the printer, then the source tray has to be pulled out to access the width guides. The guides adjust so that the media is centered in the tray. Since there is no guide for length, you just push the media all the way into the tray. If you have loaded a stack of media, it’s not an issue, but with a single sheet, pushing the tray back into the printer can let that paper slide back slightly and it won’t feed correctly. The tray really needs a length guide to hold the paper in place. There is no single page feeder – all media must go through the main paper tray. Placing a single sheet of photo paper in the tray on top of plain paper without pulling the tray out caused a jam about 1 out of 5 times. Because of that, It’s best to pull the tray out to load any paper. Paper feeding issues at this price point is a disappointment. Print speed is not bad at all. In fact, printing text or light graphic documents is impressively fast. I think it’s slightly slower than my RX-580 on photos, but the quality is good using premium glossy photo paper. In fact, I could not tell any difference in photos between this printer and my RX-580, so I am very happy with that. Another minor complaint is the paper path. All media is loaded face down and will feed through a complete U-turn for printing. There is no straight paper path, so thicker media can be an issue, thus printing on magnets or cardstock is not possible. The controls are fairly easy to use, but the display screen is small and is not touch-sensitive. Again, at this price point, I’d expect better. Using the scanner is simple. There’s no feeder, so it’s one page at a time. The Epson Scan utility makes saving documents on the computer simple. It’s really a one-button operation. Basic copies are simple, too, and fairly fast at standard quality. Copying a document with color graphics on plain paper actually looks better in standard quality than high. Copying a photo on premium glossy paper at the high-quality setting yields very good results. Darker colors are a bit murky, but there is a brightness adjustment that can fix that. I’d give this printer a 9 out of 10 for quality of copied photos, even though using the controls to select the proper paper sized and type is a bit tedious. Overall, I think this is a good printer, and it will meet my needs for photo printing. The savings on ink will pay for this printer in about a year based on my usage. Between the quirky paper feeder and the small control screen being a bit tedious, I dropped a star from my rating. I do recommend this printer. It’s good for simple jobs like photos or single-page copies and scans. If you need more than that, it would be better to consider a more sophisticated model.

Epson ET-3930-another large tank printer. You ask yourself – why this one as there are a few of them on the markets. This printer is not inexpensive compared to others for the does. By all means, the ink will certainly last you a long time if you use it daily but am not sure about three years if you share this printer for a home office (or a small office.) While it is not their top of the line because it doesn't have an automatic document feeder that you could copy/scan a stack of paper at a time, it works perfectly fine for occasional copying and scanning. While this is not the first printer that comes with a maintenance tray, I am thankful that it does and to replace one it is less then USD10. For those of you who are not familiar with a maintenance tray, when an inkjet needs the head cleaning because it could occasionally clog up, the cleaning cycle squirts the ink through the printheads and it has to go somewhere. The cheaper printers (or the older generation large tank printers) once the sponge pad where the ink is squirted onto is saturated, that was it. You have to ship the printer to the service center so they can open it and changed this little cotton pad. Basically it was the end of life for many people as they find it easier just to buy a new printer. The company wise up and realize it cost more to deal with this so the built in the replaceable maintenance tray that when it is full (the printer will tell you) you simply pull it out and replace it with a new one. It is not as simple as replacing the sponge inside because the printer will know from the IC chip that a new one is replaced and since it doesn't cause that much and it takes a very long time until it needs to be replaced, it is not a big deal but I know that I can run this printer to the ground and not having to discard it before it truly dies on me. This model is easier to set up than other Epson printers (or Canon or HP brands), as the printheads are already installed. If you look for them when you open the box they are in place already. All you need to do is remove all the blue ribbons that secured things in place and insert a few pieces of paper, filled the ink tanks (carefully although it is so unlikely you will put in the wrong color in the wrong tank because the tip of the bottles are made to fit only the correct tank.) And the printer will prime the tubes which takes about 10 minutes. Meanwhile you can download the program from the website to your preferred operating system and in turn, the set up program will also download other components. This particular part took me two weeks to complete – longer than other users I am afraid. What happened was my hard drive controller was going that and files that I download were corrupted. The error message was simply there was not enough hard drive space in the temporary folder (directory) and calling the Epson tech support I discovered that my motherboard was dying. It is being replace since I noticed that another Epson hardware was not being installed properly with the same error message (not enough hard drive space in the temporary folder) which was impossible as I have a two terabyte of space on that drive. Sorry for digressing – but if you run into this problem, you are having a hardware issue on your computer. I'm testing the printer on a laptop, and another spare computer and they were both installed quickly with no problem at all. You need not be a computer expert to install the driver, but some basic computer knowledge should be useful. I really love the Epson photo plus program which could log on a cloud account or a local hard drive and print a whole bunch of photos (in my case, I have a box of four by six Epson photo paper and this printer is basically a dedicated photo printer which I really enjoy using.) But using it to print regular document works perfectly fine. It works well for duplex printing, too. If this printer is shared more than a couple of people, it should work unless you print a lot of pages. (The tray holds 250 sheets which is one half of a ream of paper). There is a quiet mode to make it less noisy but it prints a little slower. During set up it prints a page that you immediately scan it back and it does some alignment and it was pretty easy. The brand name Epson inks for this model is not expensive but I have another Epson large tank printer that I used generic inks and they work perfectly fine without any problem. You do this at your own risks of course. If the output tray is closed, it pops it open but I have not and could not figured it out to have it move back and close it up by itself. Of course you press the button on the main you (sadly this is not a touchscreen LCD) and the tray retracts back into the printer. And with the tray inside, it really doesn't look like a printer. It is basically to squared but I would not choose this printer over another because of the way it looks. I recommend this printer but for the price it is being sold for it prints a little faster than other models but it does not have automatic document feeder and another brand and even Epson makes another brand which has ADF that costs less. You certainly will save a lot of money when it comes to ink but this type of printer is a large investment if you buy it for home use. Just use it often so the heads were not clog up on you – but if you do – you know that you can run the cleaning cycle and it should clear it up. This printer does not have a fax machine built-in – for those who needs a fax machine. Personally I use electronic fax but sometimes I have a few pages of documents that I need to scan so it could be inconvenient to have to do it manually. Otherwise it's a very capable printer and probably is perfect for a college student that he can share with his roommate. It might even work fine at a small office sharing it between two, to three person. But it is not for a place that is busier, or needs to scan more than a couple of pages at once.