Any experience with the Epson EcoTank?

Posted this in the wrong forum, so reposting here. 

I am pretty paperless, but there are times that you need to print something.  I love my HP printer/scanner with iPrint, but the cartridges are getting outrageous.  Especially because I am printing coloring pages for my 6 year old!  The EcoTank idea seems cool, I am OK with the loss in quality for photo printing, any first-hand experience? 

Frickin lasers, man. I don't like ink jets. 

TenToeTurbo said:

Frickin lasers, man. I don't like ink jets. 

The last several printer threads have all come down to Laser if you can get away with B&W. For me, anything beyond that would be photo quality, and that turns into a debate between having a printer or using a print service. 

Even color lasers are pretty darn cheap these days. I've yet to see a consumer grade ink jet that could come close to the print quality of any laser printer. Not to mention print speed, prints per $ and toner having a pretty much indefinite shelf life. 

I have an HP Office Jet and quickly tired of paying $200 for a set of cartridges.  Got onto Amazon and ordered a SET of generic chip-enabled cartridges for $20... the entire set for $20 - with 2 black cartridges.  They have worked perfectly since early last September. 

https://www.amazon.com/Sotek/b/ref=w_bl_hsx_s_off_web_13966542011?ie=UTF8&node=13966542011&field-lbr_brands_browse-bin=Sotek

At that price,  I will keep feeding it $20 ink for the grandkids (and our) printing until it dies or I can't get print drivers any more.

Don't own stock, but likely should.

No experience but I thought it was a brilliant concept when it first came out. Almost makes me wish I had enough use for a printer to own one

TenToeTurbo said:

Even color lasers are pretty darn cheap these days. I've yet to see a consumer grade ink jet that could come close to the print quality of any laser printer. Not to mention print speed, prints per $ and toner having a pretty much indefinite shelf life. 

I agree with TenToeTurbo. We have a Brother HL-3170CDW Color Laser because it was fairly cheap at $170 and the quality is great and the colors last a long while, couldn't be happier with it

Amazon link (first chosen when searching Google)

https://www.amazon.com/Brother-HL-3170CDW-Wireless-Networking-Replenishment/dp/B00BQU141C