Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550 is a solid all-in-one photo printer that delivers high quality wide-format prints. It's 6-color ink system gets you vivid quality, and offers extremely low running costs thanks compared to other photo printers. It's best suited for photographers, artists, and serious hobbyists who need near-professional-quality prints at home. I would not recommend that this printer be used for documents. It's scanner capabilities are sufficient

While it is too early to review the printer for performance (we have only had it a couple of weeks and have put it through all its capabilities yet) we can report that it does well at ordinary printing for office and personal correspondence. It does excellent scanning of photos, graphics and documents to PDF, JPEG, Tiff. Such copying as we need to do also works well. we have yet to do photo and art printing but will be tryin is out this coming week. Features of the machine like the output tray pushing out while printing after being hidden for neat appearance is cool. thick paper through the back feed works fine. We like the ink tanks instead of cartridges and the pricing on the ink as well.

Bought this product. Great quality picture and prints. Easy to refill. Love the wide paper products.

Overall, I really love this printer! I use it for my small business and the quality of printing is excellent. My only complaint is the printing extension that catches the paper coming out is positioned in a way that makes it difficult to access the main paper tray that’s located underneath it at the bottom of the printer. I also do not love that the extension tray does not automatically move back into the printer unless you prompt the printer to do so. Other than those two things, it works great for printing and scanning! The ink lasts a LONG time!

So far so good. I got this for printing art prints for my business after spending months looking at other printers, reviews, etc. I decided to get this once the price dropped and it did. Otherwise I was going to stick it out with my hp printer which is doing an ok job with the right paper. But I learned that while it can print pretty nicely on matter paper, you need to adjust the settings accordingly to get the best print quality.

It is easy to use, reliable and have a high quality of printouts! I really loved it and very convenience to everyone!

everything i expected in a printer very easy to set up and use

I love this printer . It works really good! The quality of the print is amazing.

We are replacing all our Canon photo printers with the Epson - EcoTank 8550 and 8500. The printer works well and we are heavily using it daily. BestBuy's price was comparable to discounted sites we searched but delivery was far faster.

All my past printers were Epson’s. I truly believe in this brand. This printer, the Epson ET 8550, OMG. I was speechless after my first test prints. I made some test prints of my daughters and her friends recent figure skating competition pictures and it blew my mind. The quality of the print on Epson Photo Paper is outstanding. When I showed these pictures to my friends, and they though the pictures were taken by a professional photographer and prints were made in a professionally controlled print lab. If anyone is planning to buy this printer, I would say just go for it. You won’t regreat investing your money on this. The price is little bit at higher end but it’s worth it. I just got some sample photo papers of other brand, of course which are compatible to this printer. I will check those and come back with the results.

If you use it correctly, this produces pretty amazing photos. Use the correct paper, probably Epson. I initially tried it with old photo paper and was on the cusp of returning it. The ink and paper were designed to work together. Epson really ought to include a couple sheets with the product so you see the results. I really like the way the ink tanks are filled. This is a huge upgrade from the inkjet cartridges, and looks like it simply will work better and much cheaper overall. The low cost of the cartridge ink jet printers is recouped when you buy more cartridges. I'm impressed with the way the ink bottles have "keys" so you can't get the wrong color in the wrong tank...that's really crucial. So far, love it. Epson's software could be more modernized.

I love the ink capacity on this printer. I print A LOT!! I was plowing through ink on my HP and the ink on this has lasted me well over a year. My only complaints are the paper tray is quite small and needs frequent refilling. It also struggles connecting to WiFi for printing and takes a few minutes to "think".

Love this printer!!! Great prints and wide range of prints. It has a defect or so but it’s a machine so of course it will but all in all it’s a great

I purchased the 2800 one first, but a few months later got this one too. The color print is sooo much better than the 2800,. I must admit that a few times when I printed from my iPad, it kept saying it was out of paper, or it would only print the top portion and the rest would come out blank. This sucked because I was using sticker paper. Once I switched backed to printing from the laptop, no more problems.

I needed a new photo printer and have used Epson and Canon photo printers in the past. After researching and talking to some people I know that had purchased the Epson Photo ET8550, I purchased one myself. I've had the printer for 3 months now and am very happy with this printer. The photos it produces are gorgeous and the use of ink is stingy! From 8" x 11" prints to the 13" x 19" prints all are simply photo lab equivalent. I have had zero problems with this printer since owning and printing many, many photos. I can't say enough about this printer. If you are looking for a great photo printer, you will love this one. I am so happy that I purchased this printer ... it is Great!!!

Really love the printer! Excellent quality for my large format printed photographs. Eco tank ink consumption is great as compared to the typical cartridges. I bought it at Best Buy as I felt the extended warranty was the best value as compared to other retailers.

Absolutely LOVE this printer! Took a bit to figure out some of it - like where exactly was tray 2 - but eventually figured it out. Since I print alot I really like the double sided printing as it saves on paper. It’s ot quiet but it’s not any louder than any other printer I’ve had. - I replaced my Brother laser with this one. The automatic openimg output tray was a surprise bonus but doesn’tclose unless you push the close button on the diplay which must be closed to load tray 2. Tray 2 doesn’t hold a lot of paper but it’s enough for me. I fill the tray every couple of weeks. Love the print quality too. Hope it stays working beautifully. Will only buy brand ink for this great printer to maintain it. Also like you can put larger paper in it too although I haven’t had an opportunity to try that out yet. Was well worth the investment!

This is one of the best printers I have ever had. The ink last very long. I have been printing lots of prints daily and it looks like I barely used any. The print quality is great! I highly recommend this printer.

First, the printer was simple to set up and get networked. Second, it's a relatively fast printer, even for photographs. Third, the color prints done on photo paper look very good. Lastly, the Ecotank technology will save money, as the inks come in 70 ml bottles that are used to fill the six tanks on printer and they are far less costly than typical ink jet cartridges with less printing capacity. This is an expensive printer and one should look for discounts. Best Buy had a very good sale price along with an Epson sponsored $75 discount for trading in my old failed printer.

I got this printer because it CAN print on thick cardstock, however doing the rear feed slot in the back is a bit of a nuisance. You have to partially disassemble the printer and keep trying to print from the back until it actually prints. I bought the printer to print up mock-up packaging for new products before spending money on "real" packaging. The printer prints nicely on Canon brand glossy photo paper, but leaves pizza wheel track marks on all other brands glossy photo paper that I have tried, including Epson brand photo paper. Matte photo paper doesn't have a gloss for the spikes to leave holes in so any non-glossy paper should be fine. I have tried 3 different brands of compatible inks and all worked good enough for me so you can save money on cheap ink. Some of the prints on photo paper will have extra marks on the paper where some of the excess ink rubs onto something and then onto the paper in the wrong spots, but those stray marks don't happen all the time. The stray marks just mean a good 13x19 photo paper is ruined and you need to print again. I also recommend waiting between poster prints to let the excess ink dry so it doesn't rub off onto the next paper and create stray marks. I haven't tried printing on any disks yet. To make sure the ink doesn't dry in the nozzles, you will need to find a 5 color Cyan Magenta Yellow K(black) Grey color print purge picture and print that as "regular" and a 1 color K(black) and print as photo paper glossy, to make sure all the nozzles are blasted clean, recommended about 1 time per week.