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I can't print from my Mac with a wireless connection since I received an exchange product from Epson. What should I do? The ET-5800 measures 6.4 by 15.9 by 14.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 18.5 pounds. That's comparable to most of its competitors, including Canon’s Pixma G6020 MegaTank All-in-One, HP’s Smart Tank Plus 651 Wireless All-in-One, and Brother's MFC-J805DW INKvestment Tank All-in-One. I was able to print from my Mac before with an Ethernet connection, but now I can't. What should I do? Yes there is an app for everything. The Epson Smart Panel app is available from your respective app store. Whilst I expected the basics of copy / print / scan and control of the ET-8500, I was pleasantly surprised at what Epson did here. The big question is, how is the print quality? Focusing on the photo printing aspect, I was provided with the best quality paper Epson has available – the Ultra Glossy photo paper.
However when scanning photos for the purposes of comparison in this review, it is apparent that there is some distortion in the scan output. This is quite obvious when the photos are overlay on each other and it required some work from me to align them for comparison. The scanner also tend to lighten the overall image which I post processed to match the actual print quality. Printing is slow or the printer stops printing when I try to print from Windows or my Mac. What should I do? When all the tanks are full, the printer will go into an approximately 7 minutes initialisation cycle to fill the ink lines and other noisy processes before it is ready for use again. Printing beautiful photos on a variety of media is an art in itself, and one that the Epson Ecotank ET-8500 masters admirably – from classic photo formats to printing on fine art paper. The versatility of this multi-functional tank printer is what sets it apart – and makes it fun to try out. And, thanks to the ink tanks, the photo costs remain low. ink bottle yields based on the ISO/IEC 24712 pattern with Epson's methodology. Replacement ink bottle photo yields are significantly lower and are based on the ISO/IEC 29103 pattern with Epson's methodology. Actual ink yields will vary considerably for reasons including images printed, print settings, temperature and humidity. Yields may be lower when printing infrequently or predominantly with one ink colour. All ink colours are used for printing and printer maintenance, and all colours must be available for printing. For more information, visit www.epson.ca/inkinfo
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The elephant in the inkjet room is clearly on display rather than hidden away. The ink tanks are right there, in the bottom right corner. All six of them with their translucent plastic clearly showing how much is left in the tank. The colour of the ink barely shows through the bottle, but if you flip up the LCD panel above it then you can seen the labelling above each tank. I tried to install the product in Windows with a wireless connection, but the installation failed. What should I do? months of standard limited warranty or 50,000 plain paper sheets (whichever happens first). For an additional 12-month extended service plan (total of 24 months or 50,000 plain paper sheets, whichever happens first), register your product and use Epson genuine ink bottles. See Limited Warranty for details.
DRN got the opportunity to review the new Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8500 featuring Epson’s patented Micro Piezo Heat-Free Technology, aimed at keen amateur photographers. The EcoTank Photo ET-8500 is the first six-ink model in the Epson range. For the next test, I timed the ET-8500 as it printed our colorful and complex Adobe Acrobat documents, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with accompanying charts and graphs, and PowerPoint presentation handouts full of brightly colored, detailed graphics and text in varying weights and styles. Then, I combined these results with those from printing the text document in the previous test and came up with a score of 10.7ppm for printing our entire collection of business test documents. This time, the ET-8500 outpaced all the other AIOs discussed here so far—most of them by more than 5ppm. The ET-8550, at 7.9ppm, split the difference. There are scan to cloud options directly from the ET-8500, this requires a Epson Cloud Connect account which then makes available options such as:I tried to install the product on my Mac with a wireless connection, but the installation failed. What should I do? Opening up the paper tray adds an additional 4cm in front. The output tray adds 18cm bringing it to a footprint of 40cm wide by 54cm deep. The ET-8500 can and will push the output tray out automatically so make sure you do leave enough room in front of the unit. I was able to print from Windows before with an Ethernet connection, but now I can't. What should I do? The ScanSmart plug-in, Receipt Manager, scans and archives financial data and exports it to financial software.
Number of paper trays: 4 (cassette 1, cassette 2, rear feed up to A4 (cassette 1 for photo papers 5×7 or smaller)), rear feed for panoramic prints up to 2m straight path The 4.3″ LCD is fairly bright and of good resolution. Navigation on the screen is responsive and the clarity is good. I could discern reasonable amounts of details when I want to preview a photo on the printer itself. I can't print from Windows with a wireless connection after I replaced my router. What should I do? Bearing in mind the ET-8500 is “aimed at keen amateur photographers”, it certainly reproduces photo prints enough to satisfy the average punter. For example I am perfectly content with the quality of the prints that we peg on rotation in our photo frames. Android and iOS smartphones and tablets can connect via Wi-Fi Direct or over a network with Epson’s Smart Panel mobile app. In addition to using Smart Panel, you can use your phone or tablet to print photos or manage the printer via Android Direct Printing, Apple AirPrint, Mopria, or the Epson Connect app.Photo printing can take a bit longer, especially if you set the print to the best quality for an A4 print. I tried to install the product's software for an Ethernet connection but cannot complete the installation in Windows or on my Mac. What should I do? After I selected the correct paper from my computer, the Ultra Glossy option became available on the LCD screen. The USB port is in an awkward position to reach. It is located in the bottom left corner of the unit and it can be difficult to manoeuvre a small USB drive into the port and not press down on the paper tray door. I was able to print from my Mac before with a wireless connection, but now I can't. What should I do?
From this point on, all you need to do is to unscrew the lid of the ink bottle and up-end it onto the appropriate tank. The instructions calls to avoid squeezing the bottles prevent splashing. The process stops automatically when the unit detects the tank is “full”. I can't print from Windows with a wireless connection since I received an exchange product from Epson. What should I do?
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The option for 2-Sided Printing (Windows) or Two-sided Printing Settings (Mac) is gray or not available. What should I do? Refilling the ET-8500 is not particularly difficult. You need to access the tanks by first opening the top of the ET-8500 unit, then flip up the grey cover that protects the refill ports. Helpfully located under the grey cover is a colour coded chart noting which colour belongs to which of the 6 tanks. Additionally each bottle is physically keyed to prevent filling the wrong colour into the wrong tank. Pressure adjustment is more extensive on the ET-8500 than on other printer models. This shows that it is a more specialised device whose print head needs to be aligned a little more precisely. Features: Aimed at photo fans For something that is constrained by minimum size, the EcoTank Photo ET-8500 is quite a compact unit. The DRN review unit is in gloss white, nothing offensive there and by and large, the printer is not going to be a showpiece. The footprint is 40cm wide by 36 cm deep when closed.
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