Epson Ecotank Printer ET-3760 Review - Watch BEFORE you buy! 

Best wishes! The 2760 is a good family model too. Less paper and slower, but rear feeder and Sd card reader.

How is it, any issues?

@@tommyharris5817 no issues , we went with the 3760. I’ve printed a full year of first and pre-k curriculum. A homeschool planner, budget planner and three unit studies. It hasn’t even made a dent in the amount of ink. Also, copying has been a breeze with the top loader.

@@valenciamaribel That's good to hear. The reason I asked is many people say they have issues after a year with regards to the print pad and need power cleaning often which destroys the ink, etc.

@@tommyharris5817 thankfully i haven’t run into that issue, but I’ve only had the printed for about 2 months.

what was wrong with the cannon?

Thank you! New video is coming out tomorrow!

Thanks for the comment. Glad to hear you’re enjoying it!

You’re very welcome and thanks for the kind words!

Thanks for the kind words! I do my best!

Same here... 8620 inbuilt obsolescence printhead error. I’m done with HP

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Perfect! Enjoy!

That’s a great plan. I didn’t cover some of the big problems of inkjets drying out now. You can’t just buy new cartridges or tubes if they’re frozen.

I’ve been eyeing those models myself (for home, because I want a duplexing ADF). Did you get a color one, or one of the black and white models they sell? As for speed: if you look at the European website, do the print speeds listed there match our experience? (As I understand it, the EU mandates print speed specs based on a standardized real-world test document. I’m curious as to how accurate it is…)

@@tookitogo mine is color. It's a great printer thus far. I've been very happy with it. My only gripe is the paper trays. They are small and poorly designed. If you fill them to capacity, they will jam. And it will sometimes grab multiple sheets so you'll have random blank paper in your document. As for speed, it's hard to tell because the advertised speed is for 5% coverage and I rarely print with such little on a page. I don't find it to be a problem though. Color is much slower though, so I do regret not paying more for the 5850

@@qwikz28 Epson _still_ doesn’t have reliable paper feed?!? I remember my old Epson from over 20 years ago having that issue. My Canons never had problems. As for speed: I thought the 5850’s claim to fame (compared to the 5800) is having the same print speed in color as in black and white?

@@tookitogo that's my understanding. The color seems to go at half speed on mine.

Thanks for the kind words Roger. Glad to have you aboard, I’m just finishing editing a follow up video on this printer and how to refill the ink. We’ve printed over 5000 pages so far this year.

It's about time the companies caught up with reality@@TheNetGuy

My wife just pumped over 100 pages through it tonight. I don’t dare to look at the printing counts yet but it’s massive!

I also bought mine at Costco almost a year ago. I've yet to have a "good" print come out of it, even with adjusting quality and settings. Everything seems very grainy and dull, everytime I see a good review I'm baffled!

@@melanietapp3414 I agree with you. Very poor printing quality. I have an old HP officejet prnter as well and when I print the same flyer on both printers you can really tell how poor the quality is from the Epson. Okay for casual printing but not for anything you want to share professionally. It also keeps going offline and difficult to get back online so not a reliable device.

Awesome and good to hear 🙏

Ice spent less than $20 in ink and print for my classroom and two school age children all the time.

Take a look at the 2760. It’s $100 cheaper, and other than having less paper capacity and being a little bit slower, you still get an amazing deal on ink and it has a rear feeder and SD card reader. Good luck!

What is CISS?

@@fatimadalal4211 Continuous ink supply system. You replace the little ink cartridges with ones having supply lines to outside tanks which are easily filled with infinitely cheaper bulk ink.

Oh no! Yeah long solid lines on ADF scans are almost always dirt on the glass. Short of “percussive maintenance” (bang on it) I’m not sure how to disassemble it. A strong vacuum brush around the edges may help too. Good luck and let me know if you succeed!

Thank you for the kinds words!

Equaled only by your comment! Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks friend!!!

Very nice to hear. Sounds pretty reliable.

Just got some new color ink and am recording a “refilling” video today. I would guess we have at least 2,000 pages printed so far.

It has copy and capability, but only one side. No duplex.

@@TheNetGuy Got it, thanks!

You bet! Thanks for finding my channel. Would love to make it to your side of the world 🌍 someday.

Good question! Right now we did 400 black and 700 color with only 15% black used. Since black is used during color prints as well that means roughly 7,333 mix prints per black and color mixed. At $49 for a refill kit that’s about $.007 per page so very cheap. And my wife was printing a TON of mixed use pages. Black alone could probably squeak out even more.

Have you tried photos?

Yes, photo printing was decent but not blown away quality. I covered that briefly in the review with a printed photo of my daughter.

It’s also increeeeedibly slow photo printing

Still going strong. Some have said the waste tank can fill up making the printer inop without software flash. Haven’t hit that yet.

Mine sure did! I wasted 7 hours carefully troubleshooting it using only Epson Official troubleshooting guides. Returned mine the next day. Photos were blurry, banded/streaked muddy messes despite going through all troubleshooting (like nozzle calibration, literally all Official Epson guides and re-installs). Maybe mine was bunk, but $300 for worse printing than a 1992 dot-matrix? Not for me!

Thanks Randy! Very good point on sitting time. This Epson may suffer the same fate of many others where the non-replaceable printhead could dry out and be damaged - that is if my wife will ever stop printing on it for a second. Now I need to order more paper!

That's why I'm sticking with HP

Fair!

This is my concern with them - the late 90s/early 2000s Epsons clogged horribly if they weren’t kept in constant (daily!) use. I asked a guy at a store if they’ve been having trouble with clogging on these, since they’ve been out for a few years now, and he said no. If they clogged anywhere distantly as often as old Epsons, they’d know about it. Even so, it’s hard for me to forget just how bad the Epsons used to clog, so I may end up going for a Canon. (Never had permanent clogging problems on those, any clogs have always been cleared by, at worst, a “deep” nozzle cleaning cycle.) My current printer is a Canon from 2008, still going strong. (And I buy my ink in the classifieds, since people sell off their spare ink for peanuts once their old printer dies. So I’m printing at essentially the same cost as the ecotank/megatank printers now!)

I had a Epson 3640 all in one printer I got a deal on at Costco. I liked it but had the same issues you did. The default print mode looked faded and even the best mode was merely ok and used more ink. I finally got it looking good and it ran out of ink and would cost a lot to buy new cartridges. I got a aftermarket continues ink system and I had to redo all my tweaks. I realized it was using non pigment ink so I ordered pigment ink for when it ran out. After about a year of using it when I needed to print something out the heads started clogging. Then the black cartridge head thing plugged and wouldn't print so I bought another setup as it was cheap and I had ink. The print head started plugging again due to long idle times between print jobs and removing and properly cleaning it is very hard. I used to have a Ancient HP 990 high end straight printer, and yes every time I bought new cartridges it had a new print head built in. I also started buying rebuilt cartridges and they worked great, and you could knock out the fill plugs and refill them about 5 times before the cartridge just stopped working. I could let it sit forever as long as it was turned on and had ink and it would just print beautifully. If it did plug I'd pull the cart and clean it up with alcohol and it would start printing again. I finally couldn't find good rebuilt or new carts anymore so bought the Epson wf 3640. I don't trust Epson anymore with my use case so found a HP that has easily removable print heads, instant ink, if you care, and does everything. It printed better in standard mode than the Epson did with all my tweaks and only got better with some minor changes. Ink is expensive but there are excellent quality after market inks for it and with two sets of cartridges you can refill one set at a time and save a ton of money. I got the 9018 Costco version, after being very happy with it I upgraded to the 9025 version that has two paper trays and is faster but the same cartridge and engine as the cheaper version. I think as long as you use Epson printers every day and keep it on they work great, but you can't let them sit the ink dries up and clogs the heads badly. I'd certainly be interested in your updates with time and if they ever offer a unit with ink tanks and a easily removable print head for cleaning I might try them again

Yes, exactly - I don't think they did anything but change the number slightly and charge you for new ones :)

Yeah I have an unboxing and setup video I haven’t posted yet - it’s like 30 minutes raw!

Thank you for the kind words!

I have the same question

Cardstock papers don't work well and gets stuck and makes roller marks.

I've been printing on cardstock since I got my printer. I've never had a paper get stuck. I do have to kinda push the paper under the roller, then its fine.

@@DanaK817I appreciate the update! I think I'll wait until they improve the paper handling a bit to switch over. My wife uses cardstock somewhat regularly for 20-ish page jobs. I can't imagine she'd be happy babysitting the feed to that degree. Besides, we have a few more expen$ive color cartridges to go through before having to decide. 🙄

An update, I bought it, and I had being printing beautiful christmas Card stock for my Etsy shop.

It will scan to computer over the network, but yes, concerning.

So… buy a more expensive model that has that feature?

My printer heads are prob dried out. I might be able to fix it- but honestly it’s more than I want to deal with. It no longer prints AT ALL. I would never buy this printer again, and I don’t recommend it.

Thanks Karen! I haven’t tested this myself but the usual way is to click the heading copies & pages and go to layout. Under two sided printing it should give you some options. 👍

Love it!

They replaced the ink scam, with the "reset ink pad" scam. Don't buy this garbage, and demand Right to Repair from your useless politicians. I shouldn't need to pay a russian hacker $10 to reset the ink pad after changing or cleaning it.

@@JohnDoe-fs6tk What's the "ink pad" deal? Cost, frequency, and ease of swap?

@@737smartin It's just typical J highway robbery. Using DRM and DMCA to prevent Hardware Repairs. Artificial life limit. You pay the hack dev 10 bucks, get code, reset counter. Just make sure you cleaned the waste pads or installed a printer potty type bucket. I got like 100 printouts, but had to run the head cleaning a lot, which fills the waste ink pads fast (as well as the digital time bomb)

@@737smartin In addition to my previous reply, Epscam won't let you reset your ink pad counter. They deny having the ability (direct, blatant lie). They want you to spend at minimum 1/3 the price of the printer to "repair" what you can fix yourself for 10 bux and 5 minutes of time.

Ohhh great question. I don’t have the M1 MBP but I have a Mac mini m1. I’ll try it out for ya.

Personally I want to review the 2760 and see how it does with feeding and SD support. The 3760 and 4760 are essentially the same inside with more paper capacity on the 4760.

Thank you for the kind words! My wife is still tapping it and we’ve owned it over a year 😭

Interesting. Are you photo printing or just regular? Could always try draft mode I guess.

@@TheNetGuy I was just test driving it and printed a few web pages with pictures. What is the draft mode? How do I get there? Thank you!

Woot! Thanks man!

It will auto duplex print both sides, however only single sided scanning.

Usually you can do that, I’ll test ours for you tomorrow and get back to you 👍

@@TheNetGuy hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Killer comment 🤘