The ink tank system appears to be much better than the cartridge system ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxciSwynMJ7PnUvvx11rewiu-yFBkZTl53 and a lot cheaper to run. The machine was easy to set up. A small point but I thought they'd be a USB cable included to help with the set up but there was none. I've been using it now for a few weeks and it seems like a good product and superior to my previous printers which were all troublesome HP machines.
One thing: printing with glossy photo printer will omit the usage of the black ink, because this is a 4-colour printer and the text black is not used when printing on glossy photo printer, because it will flake of the surface. The "black" is actually composite black: a mixture of CMY together to make something that is very "black". If you want true black (and therefore a deeper black and better contrast) choose a printer with at least 5 ink colours including photo black. There are some printers that even has a grey ink for better black and white prints without any colour casts like the ET-8500 printer.
I bought this printer n it does a hellofa job printing and scanning BUT THE DAM THING WONT CONNECT TO MY COMPUTERS PROGRAMS, OH YEA IT WILL INSTALL, BUT THATS ALL THE HELL WILL DO. WHEN ATTEMPTING TO PRINT FROM WORD, EXCEL, PHOTOSHOP, EVEN NOTEPAD ITS A NO GO, THE SYSTEM DOESNT LOAD THE DRIVER OR THE DRIVER MIGRATES ALSO THE DRIVER IS A WINDRIVER FROM 2006. LOTS OF MONEY FOR SOMETHING THAT WONT CONNECT TO THE COMPUTER. BASICLY IS JUNK.
Something wrong there mate mine prints fine from those programs .Are you printing with a cable or VIS wireless ? If wireless you need to select the Network copy of the printer not the usual vanilla flavour which will often be installed as well.
CAN YOU PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON DUPLEX PRINTING!! IDK if something is just wrong with mine, it's only a month and half old but for some reason even though its set to 2 sided printing it won't work and EPSON has been zero help! I'm going crazy here trying to get this thing to print double sided. It's almost ended up on the street in pieces as I have 34 page projects I needed printed out and 2 sided and I just prints everything single sided! Please help!
If you have set the setting on your computer for 2 sided printing it should print 2 sided. Why don you try printing from a different device with the 2 sided printing on. Also try using the Epson app when printing.
Uhhhmmm..too bad you're not printing photo's using the Epson 8" x 10" photo paper, cause then you could tell me how do we load 8x10 paper in a tray that is clearly meant for 8 1/2" x 11"? Cause there is no tray edger in the tray that line up the paper. Are we supposed to use th top feeder? Would be helpful if Epson explained that...hmmmm
I want to buy this printer but I've seen a couple of reviews that describe that when running on their Mac and when they go to print, it typically does not wake up. They have to then cancel the print que, restart the printer, and then reprint. It then works. Takes like 5 minutes. Have you heard about this issue?? Thanks.
@@BestPrinters Thank you so much! I have a shop and need a new printer. Looking for something that gives good colors and similar to what you see on the screen without a significant amount of adjusting printer. You rock.
It depends, with the extra $150 you get an automatic document feeder and a touchscreen, along with some other upgrades. So yes I personally would spend more but if you dont need those upgrades then save the money.
I put the document on the scanner glass and I press copy but it will not print out I have to scan it to the computer then print it out How do I get it print what is on the glass without taking it to the computer
yeh that happens, you need to use printing software like Qimage Ultra , turn off the printer control of the colour in the printer software and load an Epson profile in to Qimage Ultra and then make some adjustments and save the adjustments to recall the setting that best work for you.
I just purchased this nit and immediately noticed the same. I had been using HP Officejets and always had more intense colors with anything other than stock settings. I am totally underwhelmed so far.
So have you printed on vinyl and stickers and graphics but not on photo paper as for my business hi print a lot of stickers and dividers with pictures and graphics on it but not like actual photos and not with photo paper Do you know what I mean? I’d be using card stock as well.
Hi, here is the best printers I could find for Vinyl card stock, Epson Et 8500: amzn.to/3xX3k5j Epson ET 15000: amzn.to/3EJF5LY They are both very good!
I have this printer and I am a little underwhelmed I am wondering if there is something I am doing wrong settings wise, I just want bright vivid print outs e.g if I printed a cartoon character on photopaper.
Wow, those photos look great! Me and my wife are thinking of purchasing a printer and, thanks to your vids, the Epson 4850 seems to be the way to go. Thank you!
What’s the max paper thickness for this printer? Does it print 300gsm? I’m deciding between this and the 3850. So many comments about the flimsy quality of the 3850 is pushing me towards this one. I don’t need fax honestly so that doesn’t matter to me. Any advice?
Hi, yes here are the specs, honestly the 4850 is not a big upgrade from the 3850. You only get fax and a touchscreen with the upgrade. Here are the paper specs for the 4850. Paper Handling PC-free Paper Support Plain (letter, half letter, executive, 8.5" x 11", A4), Photo (4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10", letter, A4) Max. Paper Size 8.5" x 47.2" Paper Sizes 3.5" x 5", 4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10", 8.5" x 11", 8.5" x 14", A4, A6, half letter, executive, user definable (3.5" x 5" - 8.5" x 47") Paper Types Plain Paper, Epson Bright White Paper, Epson Presentation Paper Matte, Epson Premium Presentation Paper Matte, Epson Premium Presentation Paper Matte Double-sided, Epson Premium Photo Paper Glossy
wont make any difference all these megatank printers are pretty similar I had a 3800 which I returned for the 4850 and they were exactly the same both pretty flimsy, you just have to be careful not to break anything. They charge you for the privilge of using megatanks as before they charged over the top for the inks so they have reversed their strategy.
R2880 is in an entirely different class and you know that .This is good for every day stuff but an R2880 is comparable to the Canon Pro 100 which I have owned .
I have a printer , epson 4760 and the power and fax button are blinking out of no where, I don’t know why It works fine Just have that issue Would u know why?
If your printer works otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it. I have an Epson where the power button also blinks on and off. This is normal behavior while it's on sleep mode.
Cant say I had the same experience with the prints. I had Canon prints to compare it to. I used Canon Platinum gloss and semi gloss and both came out with a magenta cast.I switched off colour control then backed off the magenta using an Epson printer profile for Epson semi gloss paper for another Epson model because they don't have any stock ICC profiles for this printer. I printed it out using Qimage Ultra and that was as close as could to the original print from my Canon .I ordered some Epson semi gloss and when it arrives I will see if that improves matters.
I noticed that your double-sided print example had the back of the page oriented upside-down vs the front. I'm hoping that can be fixed with a setting somewhere?
I guess the best this can do is 1 or 2 full colour prints per min, not quite the 8 pages Epson claims, that must be for a really basic clip art and some text page.
They are good till the heads block up if you print regular it's ok but if it's left it will block up Also the printer as a end of service life filter when it's full you have to send it back for a new filter I had the et 4700 and was fine till it was left only buy this printer if you print regular.
They literally sell that filter for 10€ "probably something around 10 bucks in US" at official Epson page, you can replace it yourself, need just screwdriver to screw out one screw then take filter cover away and then old filter off and place new one!
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The ink tank system appears to be much better than the cartridge system ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxciSwynMJ7PnUvvx11rewiu-yFBkZTl53 and a lot cheaper to run. The machine was easy to set up. A small point but I thought they'd be a USB cable included to help with the set up but there was none. I've been using it now for a few weeks and it seems like a good product and superior to my previous printers which were all troublesome HP machines.
One thing: printing with glossy photo printer will omit the usage of the black ink, because this is a 4-colour printer and the text black is not used when printing on glossy photo printer, because it will flake of the surface. The "black" is actually composite black: a mixture of CMY together to make something that is very "black". If you want true black (and therefore a deeper black and better contrast) choose a printer with at least 5 ink colours including photo black. There are some printers that even has a grey ink for better black and white prints without any colour casts like the ET-8500 printer.
thank u
Print quality wise would you go for the 2850 3850 or 4850 or are they the same?
I bought this printer n it does a hellofa job printing and scanning BUT THE DAM THING WONT CONNECT TO MY COMPUTERS PROGRAMS, OH YEA IT WILL INSTALL, BUT THATS ALL THE HELL WILL DO. WHEN ATTEMPTING TO PRINT FROM WORD, EXCEL, PHOTOSHOP, EVEN NOTEPAD ITS A NO GO, THE SYSTEM DOESNT LOAD THE DRIVER OR THE DRIVER MIGRATES ALSO THE DRIVER IS A WINDRIVER FROM 2006. LOTS OF MONEY FOR SOMETHING THAT WONT CONNECT TO THE COMPUTER. BASICLY IS JUNK.
wow
Something wrong there mate mine prints fine from those programs .Are you printing with a cable or VIS wireless ? If wireless you need to select the Network copy of the printer not the usual vanilla flavour which will often be installed as well.
CAN YOU PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON DUPLEX PRINTING!! IDK if something is just wrong with mine, it's only a month and half old but for some reason even though its set to 2 sided printing it won't work and EPSON has been zero help! I'm going crazy here trying to get this thing to print double sided. It's almost ended up on the street in pieces as I have 34 page projects I needed printed out and 2 sided and I just prints everything single sided! Please help!
If you have set the setting on your computer for 2 sided printing it should print 2 sided. Why don you try printing from a different device with the 2 sided printing on. Also try using the Epson app when printing.
Uhhhmmm..too bad you're not printing photo's using the Epson 8" x 10" photo paper, cause then you could tell me how do we load 8x10 paper in a tray that is clearly meant for 8 1/2" x 11"? Cause there is no tray edger in the tray that line up the paper. Are we supposed to use th top feeder? Would be helpful if Epson explained that...hmmmm
The paper tray is adjustable to lower sizes. there are blue tabs you should be able to adjust.
@@BestPrinters thanks! Yeah, I finally figured that out after I pulled the tray all the way out..heheheh
Does this printer have duplex capabilities' John
Yes sir, thank you for subscribing!
Hello, when using photo paper, do you load the paper in the front tray? Or is there a rear tray where you can load thicker paper like cardstock.
Actually the front tray does a good job even with thick paper. There is no back tray on most of the 4000 models.
I want to buy this printer but I've seen a couple of reviews that describe that when running on their Mac and when they go to print, it typically does not wake up. They have to then cancel the print que, restart the printer, and then reprint. It then works. Takes like 5 minutes. Have you heard about this issue?? Thanks.
That sounds like an isolated incident, because I have not seen that myself. They are making these printers better each time.
i haven't decided to get a ET-4800 or this one, ET-4850, the internet views says the ET-4800 is better, what do you think? Thanks MPB
The 4850 is better
Thank you for your video. I would have liked to see a better comparison between the print on your phone and the print once it's completed.
Ok, I can tell you the quality of the picture on my phone was very similar to what was printed.
@@BestPrinters Thank you so much! I have a shop and need a new printer. Looking for something that gives good colors and similar to what you see on the screen without a significant amount of adjusting printer. You rock.
My printer is printing light...how can I change it to make it darker? Thank you!
The presets within the device you are using.
Would you buy this or the 2850? Is saving $150 bucks worth it?
It depends, with the extra $150 you get an automatic document feeder and a touchscreen, along with some other upgrades. So yes I personally would spend more but if you dont need those upgrades then save the money.
I’m needing a printer that will print like brown orange red. Do you think this printer will print those colors?
Absolutely
What do you do when the ink goes through the paper and the paper is wet? How do you fix the issue?
A printhead cleaning and a changing of the maintenance box is required.
Thinking about buying a 4850 Renewed printer on Amazon… would you recommend this?
I wish you would have also printed a BW photo to see its quality from this printer.
It would be good.
I put the document on the scanner glass and I press copy but it will not print out I have to scan it to the computer then print it out How do I get it print what is on the glass without taking it to the computer
The printer may be defective the copy button should work.
Ive notice my designs when printed the color is not bold but more faded out.
Try tinkering with the photo settings on your computer.
yeh that happens, you need to use printing software like Qimage Ultra , turn off the printer control of the colour in the printer software and load an Epson profile in to Qimage Ultra and then make some adjustments and save the adjustments to recall the setting that best work for you.
I just purchased this nit and immediately noticed the same. I had been using HP Officejets and always had more intense colors with anything other than stock settings. I am totally underwhelmed so far.
hi thanks for the video!! i have a question!!! is it posible to use printable sticker paper?
Yes you can!
Sam's club has it for $378.39
nice
So have you printed on vinyl and stickers and graphics but not on photo paper as for my business hi print a lot of stickers and dividers with pictures and graphics on it but not like actual photos and not with photo paper Do you know what I mean? I’d be using card stock as well.
Hi, here is the best printers I could find for Vinyl card stock,
Epson Et 8500: amzn.to/3xX3k5j
Epson ET 15000: amzn.to/3EJF5LY
They are both very good!
@@BestPrinters awesome. I went with the 8550 model as I watched some videos and read reviews and vinyl and card stock worked for them !!! Thanks you.
I have this printer and I am a little underwhelmed I am wondering if there is something I am doing wrong settings wise, I just want bright vivid print outs e.g if I printed a cartoon character on photopaper.
You definitely need to use the right settings from the device you are printing from and the printer.
@@BestPrinters ahh ok, i have even contemplated selling it.. Should I perservere
All my colors are coming out blueish and not true colors 😞
You might get better quality if you adjust the print settings.
Wow, those photos look great! Me and my wife are thinking of purchasing a printer and, thanks to your vids, the Epson 4850 seems to be the way to go. Thank you!
Good choice! Thanks for the comment!
Great video. I was looking for picture 🖨
Great
I’d like to know the scanning capabilities (I.e. duplex scanning, use of ADF, crop scans, scan to cloud base)??
Yes to duplex scanning, scan to cloud yes, crop scans with the app.
@@BestPrinters thx u
@@fuyu3342 This printer DOES NOT do duplex scanning.
What about changing size of paper, how you load photo size into tray?
I just bought this printer..Is it suppose to my a clicking noise while printing?
The real test is printing in black and white.
Lol
How can I adjust the colour settings? I don’t get that on my hp laptop with this printer whiles I do see the option with my ET2720
What’s the max paper thickness for this printer? Does it print 300gsm? I’m deciding between this and the 3850. So many comments about the flimsy quality of the 3850 is pushing me towards this one. I don’t need fax honestly so that doesn’t matter to me. Any advice?
Hi, yes here are the specs, honestly the 4850 is not a big upgrade from the 3850. You only get fax and a touchscreen with the upgrade. Here are the paper specs for the 4850.
Paper Handling
PC-free Paper Support Plain (letter, half letter, executive,
8.5" x 11", A4), Photo (4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10", letter, A4)
Max. Paper Size 8.5" x 47.2"
Paper Sizes 3.5" x 5", 4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10", 8.5" x 11",
8.5" x 14", A4, A6, half letter, executive, user definable
(3.5" x 5" - 8.5" x 47")
Paper Types Plain Paper, Epson Bright White Paper, Epson
Presentation Paper Matte, Epson Premium Presentation Paper
Matte, Epson Premium Presentation Paper Matte Double-sided,
Epson Premium Photo Paper Glossy
wont make any difference all these megatank printers are pretty similar I had a 3800 which I returned for the 4850 and they were exactly the same both pretty flimsy, you just have to be careful not to break anything. They charge you for the privilge of using megatanks as before they charged over the top for the inks so they have reversed their strategy.
That's the printer I was supposed to get the 3850, But they didn't have anymore so I got the Epson Eco Tank ET-4850.
@@BestPrinters so you can’t use vinyl in this 4850??
i hear the B/W photo prints are not good. I don't know. Can someone tell me. Exept A3, do i have any other reason to keep my R2880?
It will be better than the R2880!
R2880 is in an entirely different class and you know that .This is good for every day stuff but an R2880 is comparable to the Canon Pro 100 which I have owned .
Why not also explain how to change settings
Comment I was looking for. Its like no one wants to explain this. My prints come out faded and smudgy
I have a printer , epson 4760 and the power and fax button are blinking out of no where,
I don’t know why
It works fine
Just have that issue
Would u know why?
That sounds strange I have never run into that.
If your printer works otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it. I have an Epson where the power button also blinks on and off. This is normal behavior while it's on sleep mode.
@@rafaelperez9652 ok cool thanks for replying
Cant say I had the same experience with the prints. I had Canon prints to compare it to. I used Canon Platinum gloss and semi gloss and both came out with a magenta cast.I switched off colour control then backed off the magenta using an Epson printer profile for Epson semi gloss paper for another Epson model because they don't have any stock ICC profiles for this printer. I printed it out using Qimage Ultra and that was as close as could to the original print from my Canon .I ordered some Epson semi gloss and when it arrives I will see if that improves matters.
Thanks for sharing!
Not bad for pic printing ! Is the digital control screen in vivid colour or black and white?
I=The screen is in color.
@@BestPrinters Makes ity a very nice do everything compact unit
A 2851 has higher Resolution? For half the price ? ok I get the answer, it only has 3x56 nozzle per color... the 4850 has 4x128 nozzles
Yes the 38xx and 48xx has more nozzles = faster printing
I noticed that your double-sided print example had the back of the page oriented upside-down vs the front. I'm hoping that can be fixed with a setting somewhere?
Yes that can be adjusted.
you can change that in the settings
Nice video Brandon! 👍😁
Thank you!
Hi , thanks for the video . Does is it handle the 2sided auto scan ? Thanks for the help
Yes it does, thanks for watching!
no sorry it does not
I guess the best this can do is 1 or 2 full colour prints per min, not quite the 8 pages Epson claims, that must be for a really basic clip art and some text page.
True
Thanks!
You're very welcome!
They are good till the heads block up if you print regular it's ok but if it's left it will block up Also the printer as a end of service life filter when it's full you have to send it back for a new filter I had the et 4700 and was fine till it was left only buy this printer if you print regular.
Thank you for the feedback to your fellow viewers
you can pull that out i saw a video on that exact thing no need to send it any where
They literally sell that filter for 10€ "probably something around 10 bucks in US" at official Epson page, you can replace it yourself, need just screwdriver to screw out one screw then take filter cover away and then old filter off and place new one!