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For printing from mobile devices, Epson provides its Smart Panel app. This is easy to use and provides a choice of printing and scanning possibilities, from photo printing to document capture. The app even has a power button so you can turn the printer on and off remotely, and it also tells you how much ink you have left. I’ve a detailed look at the setup process in its own article. Also, a video looking at the 8550 setup process. There is a lot of stuff like this, but for details I’m afraid you’ll have to read the manual… ET-8550 printer review: Ink refilling
Baryta style papers such as the Epson TPP looked good, but these usually excel on pigment ink printers. The SD/HC/XC card slot and PictBridge port are conveniently placed at the front left of the printer. (Image credit: Epson) Epson EcoTank ET-8550: Performance Using the printer in Windows is typically straightforward, integrating nicely into Windows’ existing print settings, with a breakout set of options on a sub-menu if you want to control the finer details. That and some space at the front. This is a test sheet for creating a printer profile (see later for more colour management and profile info). Remember me? The famous old Stylus Pro 3880 isn’t a bad image quality comparison – more inks, but the ET-8550’s more modern inks and tiny droplets help compensate.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Compatible Operating Systems: Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later, Windows 10 (32/64 bit), Windows 7 (32/64 bit), Windows 8 (32/64 bit), Windows 8.1 (32/64 bit), Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 or later, Windows XP SP3 or later (32-bit), Thank you so much for the detailed written review and videos on all aspects of the Epson ET-8550. It was on the strength of this material and your comparisons against other printers that has now led me to purchasing this printer. For the last segment of our testing routine, the ET-8550 printed two of our colorful and highly detailed 4-by-6-inch snapshots. It did so in an average of 38 seconds each, which is well below the 60-second threshold that most people find acceptable in a consumer-grade photo printer. Print quality can be excellent but is very dependent on paper choices and profiles. This is fine for some users, but if you are just looking for something ‘that works’ the limitations of available media may be an issue to start with. The LED is a very blue white and definitely not a light to make any judgements of print colour accuracy with. Smaller paperAs a printer that’s much better suited to office work than specialist large-format photo printers, the ET-8500 features multiple input cassettes for loading different types and sizes of paper, auto duplex printing, and a large-format 8.5x14-inch scanner to enable direct scanning and photocopying. Everything’s brought together by a handy 10.9cm color touchscreen with an intuitive interface and, for remote operation via a smartphone or tablet, there’s the ‘Epson Smart Panel’ app. Connectivity options include USB, Wi-Fi and Ethernet, and the printer also features an SD/HC/XC card slot and PictBridge port. 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? The best of Epson’s dedicated photo scanners – this V850 will scan whatever you throw at it, including 8*10” transparencies!
This economical printer allows you to print up to 2,300 high-quality photos with one set of ink bottles. The bottles and tanks are designed for ease of use, meaning no hassle or mess when it's time to refill. Once it’s set up, it’s mostly a simple printer to use. It defaults to a wi-fi connection, which is easy to set up – the big, high resolution screen really helps, after years of trying to set up wi-fi on printers with tiny screens. Both USB and Ethernet are also provided, along with a USB device port for a memory key and an SD card slot. I didn’t try connecting a card reader for a non-SD format to the device port, but it might well provide direct printing from CFExpress or XQD. Since it supports both Apple and Google versions of direct printing from phones, it seems to have just about every interface possibility known to photographers.This pushes the file resolution well above what might be thought best for such prints. Now that in itself is not really a problem but I was printing the image on one of my card templates, which are 300 ppi, so I needed to scale the image. The sharpening of the scaling gives the resulting cards very good crisp detail, whilst still maintaining the watercolour look. The printer accepts custom paper sizes up to just short of a metre. Some printer marketing points to lengths up to 2m, but not on my Mac.
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