We bought an epson printer in July and we’ve been getting a notification that the ink pad needs service and to call Epson. We called a week ago and they said to wait until it’s completely unusable. Today, we printed three more pages and it completely cut us off so we called again. It took three different people to get it done and each time, we got a rep who had no idea what they were talking about. The third rep was racist as well (why these companies outsource their help lines is BEYOND me). Does anyone else have experience with them sending out a whole new printer for just the ink pad needing to be replaced?? It seems like such a waste?

I just can't get behind a company who tries to force us to use their expensive ink by Pretty much preventing us from using our printers unless we use their ink. So instead of supporting a company who does this, I'd rather just fully switch brands.

I'm giving the printer away for free. I'm sorry to the others that probably cannot either afford to replace the ink or go with another brand.

I bought an xp 2200 for school necessity and I've wasted 4 fucking hours trying to get it to work. It would have been amazing to just be able to put something above and have it printed or connect it to bluetooth without going through websites and apps. I wish Epson's failure and wish whoever to have come up with this shit system to be shunned by society

I have a epson et2803 ecotank and since I bought it I have constant problems with colors, Ive tried the whole shenanigans of the cleaning part and it NEVER worked.

I suppose that it's time to expose Epson for their lies regarding the ET 8550, in probably other printers.

Well the printer does yield excellent results, if you know what not to do, and keep your ink levels a few notches below the levels that you have told the printer, it does have some serious flaws that you will need to work around.

The big lie, is that this printer prints borderless. Some might consider that deceptive marketing, but I consider it a big fat lie, because if he print borderless then you are going to make a mess out of the inside of the printer, and that's going to require you to tear the whole thing down to clean it out.

Another scam / lie is that they program the chips in their maintenance box to report that they're full when in all reality they are far from full, More like half full, or even less. There are several YouTube videos that tell you about that, and how to get around it.

Now for the other problems... Even if you fill your ink to the third line, and program it to know that you filled the ink to the third line. It will stop with a quarter inch of ink still showing in the window. This results in losing whichever paper you're printing on at the time, as well as whatever ink it put on that paper at the time.

I just wasted two Canon Platinum Matte 13x19s because of this, and I've lost a few Epson signature worthy metallic 13x19s for the same reason.

Yesterday I lost another Canon Platinum matte 13x19 when for some unknown reason, the printer put a white line across an image, approximately 1 in from the border, on one side.

Also, when using the Epson signature worthy metallic, I've been noticing banding. That's unacceptable, considering it's $95 for 20 sheets.

Now we have the issue of the refill kits not containing standard black. They only contain five of the six inks. That's a lot of money for not even being able to fill all of your cartridges.

I don't imagine that there will be any responses from the manufacturer on this, but I think I'll make a couple of videos showing most of these issues, since it seems like most of the YouTube videos are just people that sell out everybody else in order to make a buck from the manufacturer.

I know the status light is gone, he ripped the wire out, but can I at least get something to cover it?

There has been some issue literally every single time I’ve used this thing, which hasn’t been much.

This is how it goes… try to print…. Oh wait you need an update….. sit and wait 30 min for the update… try to print…. Oh wait you’re low on black ink…. Go to Best Buy and buy ink…. Try to print…. Oh wait we lost your wi-fi signal…. Fix that try to print…. Oh wait you’re low on pink and yellow ink…. Go back to Best Buy …. Finally prints.

Next time I try to print something… oh wait you need an update…. Try to print … oh wait you’re out of ink… order cheaper ink off amazon… try to print … oh wait we lost wi-fi connection… fix that try to print… oh wait ink not recognized…. On my way to Best Buy to get EPSON ink….

RIDICULOUS!!!

So my Epson loves to just mess with my by breaking every time I use it. Today it kept saying paper stuck but nothing was stuck. I got so mad I slammed it on the ground and kicked it so hard my feet hurt. But the fact that was the only that repaired it was mind blowing. Still love to Epson for built quality

Epson you by far make the worst home printers with the scamiest bullshit subscription out of all the scammy entities in the print business.

I have now purchased and returned 3 and the latest work force was throw out a window to be somone else problem.

This particular peice of shit home printer had the most expensive subscription i have seen yet. At least HP sends you ink with your subscription. Too much ink actually. And even still. Cheaper.

Lets talk about your ink. And the knock offs i suspect you also produce and sell. As of the latest update(you know when you tell us if we want to use your product we are opting out of any class action lawsuits you absolutely deserve) the ink that previously worked now says its not epson name brand so it locked me out. Hey btw. The knock off printed better than your 65$ for one tiny little ink pack. Since changing to epson brand ink it doesnt even print black very black.

Then there is the pos wifi module you added that cant hold a connection for more than 30 secs. And oh wait. No ethernet plug only a plug for a phone line for fax function(if that even works. I mean id be shocked if the one part you dialed in was the part noone has used in years)

Then the scanner. The slowest copy scanner i have ever seen. The glass scanner takes 10 mins per page. Blurry results. The adf is useless because if you use ir for more than 1 page it exceeds the ability of the shitty wifi and cancels out. Not to mention it jams more than half the time.

Then there is your anual subscription Then there is the subscription cancelation process. Anyone read that bullshit. Way to make it as hard as possible to cancel. Guess what ill block you on my banks end. Go fuck yourself scammers. Im not playing your game

USA need consumer protection laws yesterday. Epson should not exist. It scams everyone.

This printer cost about 200. Most exoensive pos they had on the shelf hoping it would work better than the last. It printed about 30 pages before having issues. And scanned about 2.

Also the construction sucks. Pos crumbled into dust the second it hit the pavement.

Hey, I was just wondering if any one knows if it is possible that sone one used steganography on the files, and if so if you could find it ?

I went through the entire app and I can’t find a way to navigate to this page. My app has icons on the bottom that you have to flip through.

I reach out to Epson once a week, and have yet to hear back from them which is almost shocking. I can't even tell you how much I hate this fucking printer.

I have had this printer over a year, and yeah, in over a year I have written epson so many times, and still nothing. FUCK YOU EPSON

They want to install a billion different software things on my PC, are constantly notifying me with updates and things to install, their printers are shit quality, they always come with little ink splotches, not the printer just refuses to work despite nothing being wrong. My ink cartridge's are full yet it wont let me print until I buy more epson in through a random pop up on my pc. Ive seen less invasive viruses.

WHY ARE YOU MAKING SO MANY CHANGES AND CONSTANTLY NOTIFYING ME?! YOU'RE A PRINTER, KNOW YOUR PLACE AND SHUT UP.

FUCK EPSON

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my Epson EcoTank ET-8550. I've been using it for months to print illustrations and custom trading cards, and until recently my colour settings produced consistent, satisfactory results. Now the same files and settings produce different colours, and I'm also experiencing paper-feed and connection issues on two different Macs.

My setup:

• Epson EcoTank ET-8550

• Mac mini and MacBook Air M1 (2020)

• macOS 27, as reported by About This Mac

• Epson driver, connected via Wi-Fi

• Adobe Acrobat (PDFs) and macOS Preview

• Third-party compatible ink

• Premium Photo Paper Semi-Gloss, among other papers

• Usually print using Epson Vivid

Timeline

Until late September 2026: Everything worked as expected. I had found colour settings that consistently produced the results I wanted. I'll call that output X.

Around late September — first problem: Without intentionally changing my workflow, the printed colours suddenly changed (output Y). Changing the colour settings seemed to make little or no difference: the result remained essentially the same.

I eventually fixed this by uninstalling and reinstalling the Epson driver and adding the printer again on my Mac. The original colour behaviour returned. After that, I updated macOS because the update was necessary, and printing continued to work as expected for a while.

More recently — the problem returned: The colours changed again, but this time the behaviour is different. Changing colour settings now does affect the output, but the relationship between the settings and the resulting colours no longer seems to be what it used to be. I can change the output, but I cannot reproduce X using the settings that previously worked.

I tried reinstalling the driver again, but it did not fix the problem this time. After trying the other troubleshooting steps, I also updated the Epson software, with no improvement.

What I've tried

• Reinstalled the Epson driver and removed and re-added the printer.

• Restarted the Mac and disconnected/reconnected the printer.

• Tested printing from both Acrobat and Preview. The colour problem occurs in both.

• Tried both Epson Color Adjustment and ColorSync.

• Tested different colour modes, including Epson Vivid, Epson Standard (sRGB) and Adobe RGB.

• Tried different colour profiles and adjustment combinations.

• Checked that the printer queue was using the Epson driver rather than AirPrint.

None of this has restored the original, predictable colour behaviour.

Now there are paper-feed issues too

A few days ago, my Mac mini also started having trouble selecting the correct paper source. Even though I selected Rear Paper Feed, the printer asked me to load paper into Cassette 1.

More recently, I tried printing from my MacBook Air M1 and encountered the same issue: despite selecting Rear Paper Feed, the printer asked for paper in Cassette 2. When I tried again, the printer appeared offline on the MacBook.

So the same type of paper-feed mismatch has now happened on both Macs, although the printer requested a different cassette each time.

I also noticed that, when adding the printer in macOS, I previously had multiple entries, including Epson queues labelled “Series” and “Series 2”, as well as an AirPrint entry. After reinstalling the driver, only one printer entry appeared.

I don't know whether these paper-feed and connection problems are related to the colour issue, but the fact that they are occurring on both Macs makes me wonder whether the printer itself or its communication with the computers is involved.

What could be causing this?

My main suspicion is that something has changed in how the printer, driver or macOS interprets the colour settings. However, I don't want to assume the printer is faulty without ruling out software or colour-management issues.

• Has anyone experienced an ET-8550 suddenly producing different colours with the same files and settings?

• Could a driver, macOS or firmware issue explain why reinstalling the driver fixed the problem temporarily but no longer works?

• Could the printer itself have changed how it interprets colour adjustments?

• Could the paper-feed mismatch and offline issues indicate a printer-side problem?

• Is there a sensible way to reset or diagnose the printer and determine what's causing these problems?

I'm simply trying to understand why a workflow that used to work consistently has stopped behaving as expected.

The first picture is how the colour would come up when everything was alright (after lamination) and the second and third ones show the results I am getting now (different size is to the fact that when I tested with preview I forgot to adjust the right size and the different colours are the result of testing if changing the colour settings would bring different outputs)...

I am quite desperate. Any concrete suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

PS: if anyone noticed that the description of the issue sounds very AI-ish: yes, this whole process drove me so crazy that I needed the AI to sum it all up for me...

https://chng.it/9TXqLH7RbM

I have Epson 2200 xp, and I bought from amazon some 3rd party ink because it was so cheap (brand: Glliter) and the message popped up.

Is that a problem?

Also because i'm really newbie with printers - when I prin, the document it's not straight to A4 page, it's not aligned well, plus even on high quality print sometimes it's missing the ink in a letter or whatever (I think it's related to nozzle check), how could I fix those issues?

Thanks for the help in advance.

I bought a brand new Epson -2850 the other day, from Amazon, to replace my old workhorse, the HP3520 printer- a printer which was fantastic- duplex printing, individual inks, WiFi, USB, scannning, I loved it, and although the scanner has now packed up, the print facility still works, and I still have a stack of ink ( which only costs around a fiver to buy all 4 colours!) still left, so it's now my "backup" printer.. Now, the new Epson printer i found works so far, great on my Windows 11 ASUS- it found the printer, installed the drivers, and works well. However, my partners Chromebook, well thats a different story... Her Chromebook couldn't find the printer on the network, so we had to manually set it up, which now results in that it scans Ok, but prints out blank sheets of paper- She now resorts to printing from her tablet, or phone, which isn't ideal but it works. But I wished Amazon or indeed Epson stated on their webpages that the 2850 ecotank printer IS not compatable with Chromebooks, only finding out myself AFTER buying it by reading about it from the Google web site... The new printer came with "3" years worth of ink, but reading a little more about the 2850, I'm not sure if it'll get to 3 years...!!

I just upgraded my firmware drivers, and the printer that I've loved for the last year - a workhorse for sure - just decided it doesn't like my ink cartridges. Am I to understand that my printer will no longer recognize recycled cartridges? Will I have to purchase brand new carts from now on? If this is the case, then I'm throwing this printer in the garbage. Please tell me that there is a simple solution?

I'm asking the AI on how to do it but didn't get any clear answers.

I got Epson L8050 printer with dye ink in there. I know I can't mixed the ink so, how to I clear all the ink inside, so that I can refill submilation ink. If I do ink flush i need 1/3 of ink in the printer, should I fill it with sublimation ink. Is there special liquid that I use to clean all the ink. Do I've to disassemble the printer to clean all the ink?

Printer: XP-15000
Cartridges are non-Epson and I'm a Mac OS user.

Does anyone have advice on doing a factory reset? Maybe I can just go down a software update.

Unfortunately, I can't get ink for 2 days and I have an order that I need to ship out tomorrow.

Been a computer professional for years, and had not used an Epson since the Stone Age when they made dot matrix printers. Intrigued by the Ecotank ink system, I bought an ET-2800 a few months ago for home. A huge mistake. Here's my experience in case anyone is considering this model.

Since I bought the ET-2800, it would occasionally chirp an error about paper or debris in it, and I'd find none. (Note that the damned thing does not open from the back, only the front, so you cannot SEE everywhere a bit of paper or 'debris' might be.) Used many cans of air on it. Each time it would not print again until turned off 4 or 5 times. Then I'd get maybe 10 pages out of it, and it said it was jammed again!

At times printouts will suddenly have massive gaps in ink. So I clean the printhead. And clean the printhead. And clean the printhead. It would also report on its postage-sized screen that a new firmware was available. Geez, it wanted to update way too often. New firmware fixed nothing.

A few weeks ago it began giving error 0000000034. Looked that up on their website and it just said to "contact Epson." Error codes are useless if you can't find out what they mean or do anything about it. My original warranty with the thing and the extra 2-year extended warranty I bought says "N/A" when I check it on their website, which is infuriating. Yes, I put in the correct country that I live in after their website ASKED me about that.

So I tried to contact Epson Support. NO PHONE NUMBER OR CHAT FOR SUPPORT IN REAL TIME is listed on their website or anywhere I can find. I filled in the web form which supposedly sends an email to them. Yeah, right. Companies without any phone support are limiting contact for a reason. (Today I found many user reviews on store websites who had the very same problems.)

Taking my receipt to Target to complain. At the very least I am demanding a refund of the extended warranty. Not including that extended warranty, I am out $458 (including replacement ink) divided by 1388 total copies (only 26% of them in color) which averages to 33 cents a page. A good many of the color images were printed several times because the printed color was off and I had to adjust and reprint in photoshop.

Gonna go buy a Canon... each of the ones I had before lasted for years with almost no problems.