Epson Smart Panel ٤+

IF I COULD GIVE 10 STARS, I WOULD!
EPSON IS THE ABSOLUTE BEST. I plugged the printer in, hooked to wi-fi, downloaded the EPSON app and it immediately found the printer, connected, updated firmware. Worked. Everything worked in less than 10 min.
I had an hp printer, “had” being the key word here. I spent literally HOURS of my life going around and around and around, trying to get it to sync up on my phone with their app. which cannot automatically find the printer and once manually entered by IP address, won’t show up in the app. They have so much going on with their auto ink scam, that the functionality of their printers and their app are all compromised. Not to mention the 17 emails I got while trying to do a simple task of connecting my printer. Emails prompting me to complete the setup. …it was set up. Over and over again! Grrr! I even paid for a subscription and still spent more HOURS of my life, looking up troubleshooting, reading blogs, reading their website suggestions and even contacting them. All failed. Will never buy hp again.
Thank you soooooo much EPSON. I can’t tell you how happy I am!
Beautiful print quality on my ET-2803 btw.

When we first got this printer, we liked it; despite it having no touch screen, it seemed to work okay. And we were lured in by the economical ink use. However, it seems like every time we want to print, it has disconnected, and it cannot be found! 😡 Then we have to start setup all over again, and over again, and over again, and over again, ad infinitum! 😡. Do you know what it’s like to try entering a complex wifi password on their tiny “keyboard” with no touch screen? A very time consuming process that would be bad enough if we only had to do it once, but absolute torture to have to do it every other day! Grrrr! 😡Today I tried numerous times to re-connect this thing, but it failed every single time, both with wifi, and with the Ethernet connection, nothing worked! 😡. I’m getting pretty disgusted with this terrible printer, and pretty fed up! It’s still not connected, and it’s dead in the water, a pretty useless paperweight, as far as I can see right now! EPSON, why can’t you make a printer that actually consistently works, and stays connected to a network??? And don’t be blaming the network either, we have a very fast and very capable high speed network with a 1GB fiber connection, with most devices including this printer, connected through hard wired CAT8 Ethernet cables, except for our mobile devices. Epson, Let’s get your printer to consistently work for a change!

I bought this for me and my son’s school work since we are always needing to print documents all the time. Getting tired of running to the local fedex to print.
I bought additional ink didn't realize it already came with a set. I got this on sell for less than $70 and the ink cartridge is $50- a bit pricey.
The set up is pretty self explanatory just make sure you are following the instructions from the manual. I had synced this to my iphone and laptop with no issues. Test printed a photo as well and quality was perfect I will just need to purchase glossy photo paper and I am sure it will look great. The print didn't take long at all to process. I strongly recommend this product if you are looking for something reliable and affordable.