Epson has been a major player in inkjet printers for as long as I can remember, building a solid reputation for quality and performance over the years, all around the world. Like other manufacturers, however, Epson has been plagued by criticism concerning the price of ink cartridges, which can leave a bitter taste in terms of running costs. The answer comes in the shape of ‘EcoTank’ printers, with bottled ink refills saving up to 95 per cent in the total cost of ownership, over the years.
For a busy home office environment or as a printer for the whole family, Epson reckons the ink supplied with this printer straight off the shelf should keep you going for up to three years. Indeed, it’s supplied with a set of full-capacity ink bottles, plus an extra bottle of black ink for twice as much text printing. Crunching the numbers as well as a mighty stack of paper along the way, the supplied ink should be sufficient for printing up to 15,100 pages of mono text and 5,500 color documents. I hate to think how many cartridges I’d have to buy and how much they’d cost, to rack up those kinds of numbers. This Epson certainly aims to be one of the best all-in-one printers for the home office and for hybrid working.
