Epson Smart Panel 4+

I’ve used Epson printers for many years & loved them & until I got the ET4800! To print on double side, u have to sit there & flip & feed each page urself!cannot see how much ink is in these ‘clear’ ink tank windows! U have to set paper size on both device & printer… on a good note - once u sit & google for an hour or so to figure the setting to get a decent picture print - it can print great photos!!

I had an Epson previously so I bought the same again (or so I thought). Set up was not as straightforward as I expected, I was called away during the download of the app and when I came back I had to start again but even though the message said it had not been downloaded, when I went to download it again, it said it was already there. After much frustration and deleting and reinstalling I tried to print something using ‘print’ in a document I had just typed up and nothing happened. Apparently you have to close your document and open the app (why?), but the document I had just created was not visible in the app, I ended up saving the same document 4 times and it still didn’t show up in the app. I had to wait until the next day before I could find it. Then, to add insult to injury, I couldn’t work on anything else while printing. Nor could I walk away from the iPad and go do something else because if the iPad hibernated the printing would stop. Now, that might not be a problem if you’re printing text only but recently I had to print a crochet pattern which included photos and the 8 pages took 40 minutes! I’d rather watch paint dry!
NEVER AGAIN! As soon as I run out of ink again the whole lot goes in the bin.

Our actual Home Wi-Fi network was not shown among those the App could see so I chose to manually enter its name - unfortunately while it accepted the name it did not then prompt for its password to remember on the printer. Consequently it then failed to connect the printer to it although the app on the iPhone was connected. The app then suggested it connect to its own dedicated wi-fi network and did so. That however meant that it could not then see anything on our home network including files we might want to print. Furthermore when you then print a photo or document the content is not proportioned reasonably being truncated or just a narrow slice of the document or photo. Why can I not select the printer from Microsoft Word or Camera on my iPhone as I could with my old printer a Workforce 645 that worked brilliantly for years until it started to fail?