And when you go to refill? You’ll pay less for double the amount of ink. It’s a much more environmentally-friendly approach. There’s no cartridge with included print mechanism, no sneaky sponges taking up half the available volume, just a bottle of ink and a tank to fill. Using squeeze-bottle refills, you fill these tanks with ink. Instead of inserting cartridges into a traveling print head in the unit itself, the Eco-Tank line has a large ink reservoir on the side of the main print unit. Where it does differ, however, is in the ink reservoir. It’s got a pull out paper tray in the back, a scanning/copying bed, and a control panel in the front. Out of the box, the ET-2550 doesn’t look all that much different from your standard all-in-one printer. Epson sent out a review sample for my family to put to the test. Epson has flipped the script and asks that you shell out a bit more up front for a better overall experience (where you’re not running to Target at 9:45 at night because your printer ran out of ink). It’s the same sales method that gets you to keep buying packs of $30 razor blade heads for your “cheap” razor. Canon and HP sell dirt-cheap printers because they know you’re going to have to spend hundreds of dollars in ink cartridges.
Two years? Without having to buy ink? That’d save me around $400-500 dollars! Heck, if it only saved me one year of ink, I’d still be coming out ahead, even factoring in the premium that Epson charges for the Eco-Tank line. We ended up spending more in ink last year than we did on the printer itself.Įnter a very timely sponsorship by Epson of NPR’s All Things Considered (who says advertising doesn’t work?), where they touted their “Eco-Tank” line of printers that come with “two years of ink in the box.” Our old all-in-one Canon was up to the task, but replacement cartridges were expensive. Multiply all those one-off printing jobs by 18-20 kids and you find yourself going through ink like it was water. My wife is a teacher and, while she gets copies at work, there’s always something that needs to be copied or printed out. That’s when I noticed a big line item for printer ink. I was busy getting this year’s return together, tallying up office supplies. Photo of photos by Anthony Karcz (how meta)Īs April comes barreling towards us, so does that most dreaded of days amongst financial procrastinators: Tax Day.
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