Sure enough, it produced crisp and reasonably dark text, perfectly fine for anything from hurried drafts through to formal letters. The Epson EcoTank ET-3850 has an office focus, which includes using pigment-based black ink – ideal for bold black text on plain paper. Given that it may take a couple of years of printing for a refillable ink tank printer to offset its higher price with cheaper printing, it would be good to have the piece of mind that the ET-3850 will last long enough. The only major criticism I have is that Epson currently provides only a single year’s warranty. While there isn’t a touchscreen, the combination of colour screen and buttons works fine.
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Once the tanks are full and the printer ready, it’s simple to get it on the network, update the firmware, and start sharing it among users. You can’t put the wrong colour in a tank, and I’m yet to spill a drop with this second revision of the EcoTank system. If the idea of ink sloshing about is a worry, it needn’t be: Epson has made the initial fill-up almost foolproof. Even when its bundled bottles run dry, you’ll pay less than half a penny per full colour page to keep it in ink.
With this in mind, the ET-3850 looks like more of a bargain. Try those volumes on a regular printer costing say, 2p per black page and 7p in colour, and you’ll be forking out £644 on ink on top of what you already paid for the printer.
The ET-3850 rocks up with enough to print a claimed 14,000 black or 5,200 colour pages. The reason is that it uses the EcoTank refillable ink system, which does away with wasteful, fiddly cartridges in favour of big bottles of ink. Go by specifications and performance and this Epson competes with others around the £100-150 mark, yet it costs twice that.
Talking of the competition, we need to explain the Epson EcoTank ET-3850’s comparatively high price. Unfortunately, the ADF is only single-sided, so you can’t make double-sided copies or scans of double-sided originals, as you can with some competing MFPs. Not only is this a great way to save paper, it helps you produce professional-looking reports and other handouts. The ET-3850 supports automatic duplex (double-sided) printing. You can load this with documents up to 30 pages long and have the ET-3850 pull the pages through while scanning or copying them – a great timesaver. It’s a smart black device, with a fully enclosed 250-sheet paper tray in the bottom, and an automatic document feeder (ADF) on top. The Epson EcoTank ET-3850 is a reasonably compact colour inkjet MFP, designed for print, scan and copy duties in the home or a micro-office.
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