Who wouldn’t want to save 90% on printer ink costs? And who wouldn’t be thrilled about being able to go two years without having the hassle of replacing ink? I know lots of families, students, parents of students and home office owners that would jump at this. Ink is the big draw of the Epson EcoTank ET-4760 wireless all-in-one printer. As in it comes with a two-year supply of ink (the equivalent of 80 standard individual inkjet cartridges) and with super-sized refill tanks you won’t ever have to swap out cartridges. Simply insert an ink bottle every few years and be done with it.
The appeal of a supertank printer
The Epson EcoTank ET-4760 is part of an increasingly popular category of printers known as “supertank” printers.Â
A supertank printer offers all the advantage of inkjet printers, including high-resolution, brilliant colour printing and support for special media like treated photo paper that makes the colours of printed images absolutely pop. But a supertank printer eliminates the two (related) disadvantages of inkjet printers: the frequency of ink cartridge refills required, and the cost of consumables.
Instead of an ink cartridge that must be replaced every time one of the colours runs out, the Epson EcoTank ET-4760 uses four big ink tanks. Each has a clear window so ink levels can be seen at a glance without needing to open the printer, check the display, or run a supply diagnostic on a computer. You can see exactly how much ink is remaining, so there are no “out of ink” surprises. Epson includes four EcoTank ink bottles in the box (Black, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow) and you use these to fill up the tanks. Once done that’s it. With an estimated 7,000 pages of black and 6,000 pages of colour printing, you won’t need to worry about refilling for a long time—an estimated two years.
When you do need to fill up a tank, just buy the colour that’s run out—you don’t waste ink or money by having to replace them all at the same time. Speaking of saving money, the EcoTank ET-4760 also supports two-sided printing.
Epson EcoTank ET-4760 key specs:
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This all-in-one printer does everything
Unless you have a home office, you probably won’t use the fax functionality, but this all-in-one printer is packed with other features. It includes a built-in flatbed scanner, and uses that capability to also act as a photocopier. Load up to 30 pages in the feeder and copy in colour or black and white. The paper tray holds up to 250 pages of letter or legal-size paper and it supports printing on a huge range of paper sizes and types. you can even manually feed paper up to 8.5-inches by 47-inches for printing banners. Â
Print quality is excellent. Epson’s MicroPiezo and PrecisionCore technology offers print resolution of up to 4800 x 1200 dpi (dots per inch). Colour pages print at up to 8 ppm (pages per minute) while black can print at up to 15 ppm. In testing, text was black and crisp. I didn’t have any photo paper handy, but I printed several high-resolution photos on letter-sized copy paper. The images came out sharp, colour-accurate and despite the fact that I was using porous paper and printing over a large area, there was no sign of banding. The ink also dried very quickly with minimal rippling of the paper.Â
Lots of connectivity options and even voice control
Wireless printers are very popular (especially for home and small office use) because there’s no need for cables and they can be placed anywhere there’s room. Once connected to your Wi-Fi network, the Epson EcoTank ET-4760 offers all the advantage of wireless including the ability to easily print from not just a PC, but also your mobile devices. While I did print some documents from a Mac (no installation required, by the way, just pick the new printer from a dropdown), for the most part during testing I printed from my iPhone.
Epson takes the wireless connectivity to the next level with support for voice assistants. With a supported smart speaker or similar device and a little extra setup (including an Epson Connect account), you can tell Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant to print on the Epson printer.
Perfect for students and home office use
If your household prints a few pages here and there then you aren’t really the target demographic for a printer like the Epson EcoTank ET-4760.Â
However, if you are a student or have students in your home, chances are you print a lot. Essays, assignments, images for projects, photos of family and pets. This is where the Epson EcoTank ET-4760 shines. It’s not only flexible and able to cover scanning and photocopying as well as printing, it’s going to save money on consumables and eliminate scenarios where you discover the printer is out of ink just before a school assignment is due. The same qualities make it ideal in a home office. It’s compact, wireless, incorporates all the functions you need (including fax capability), it offers flexible printing options, low printing costs, and it won’t leave you stranded without ink right before an important deadline.
Check out the Epson EcoTank ET-4760 and all the other all-in-one and supertank printers at Best Buy.
This looks like an awesome printer. I would love this printer as I do a lot of printing for family.
I like the huge ink reservoir and the voice control option. Be safe thank you for the chance
@kareemslick
the voice control option
love the hands-free control feature
I like the printer’s super-sized refill tanks
I love the fact that the printer can print and scan on legal size as very few home use ones can accommodate such. Just days before the libraries were closed due to the lockdown, I considered myself lucky to be able to finish a major scanning job in 3 hours as major of the pages are in legal size and there’s literally only 1 such scanner within the region library network!
I didn’t know voice-activated printing was an option for printers. This seems kinda cool to have.
Great review!! I love that there is voice support with the Epson EcoTank ET-4760 wireless all-in-one printer. 🙂
I love the hands-free control feature
two-sided printing is a good idea
I like the printer’s 30-page document feeder
As an elementary school teacher, this printer would be an amazing addition. It is very convenient and I like that you do not need to repurchase ink cartilages when the ink runs out. Even if I don’t win, I will consider purchasing this.
I am a Kindergarten teacher teaching from home. I would LOVE to win this and donate it to one of the families in my class who is currently hand-drawing amazing worksheets for her daughter.
The ink reservoir sounds wonderful – I always run out of ink at the most inoperative times – like when the stores are all closed and I need something completed yesterday! It is also great to have scanner capabilities!
As a law student I love the massive ink reservoir
Love the concept of bulk ink….would love to win this
Refillable ink is the best feature
Brad Moon……what a review. If I don’t win this printer I am going out to buy it. Love that I don’t have to buy those silly cartridges. They are so expensive. This will be great for my small business. No ink purchase for up to 2 years and love the scanner option!
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