Love this printer! Good print quality, even on plain paper. Rated speed is 17 ppm black and 9.5 ppm color. Real life print speed is close to rated speed. Scanning speed is also very quick. Copies are very quick and have excellent quality. Ink replenishment is quick and easy. The EcoTank bottlles are $50 for a set of 4 and provide 6 months of typical use. This makes printing very economical. Loading the ink was quick and easy. Just dump the liquid ink into the reservoir. Having a large bottle instead of small cartridge does introduce a bit more risk of spillage, but the design of the bottles mitigates spillage. ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: This $600 printer is probably twice the price of an equivalent printer that requires Epson-proprietary ink cartridges. However, the saving over a year of buying expensive cartridges more than justifies the increased cost of the printer. IMHO, paying more for the printer but paying a fair price for inexpensive ink is also a more honest arrangement. LINUX Wireless and wired networking is available, as is USB. After connecting to the network or computer, scanning is easy. I use VueScan, but "Epson Scan 2" is available from Epson for free. Like other Epson printers, printing can be difficult to configure. Although Ubuntu detects the printer, printing fails with the automatic setup. Instead, choose "Manual URI" and type "lpd://EPSONFBD131/BINARY_P1" for the connection. After that, proceed as usual.

Great printer. With the Epson app it was easy to set up. Printing is great and the scanner works perfectly. Recommend highly especially for home office employees that need to print and scan and copy.

We have the base model Eco Tank and have loved it - inexpensive to operate with ink not needing to be added for 6-9 months. When the 5180 went on sale it was a no brainer. It holds 200 sheets of paper and you can load multiple pages to copy, something you can't do with the base model.

love the machine i have already used a pack of paper and the ink has not moved a bit, good quality, ink saver and love that it has many features

Can't get enough of the high quality printing. We print a ton of signs and coupons for our business and it is fantastic.

Good print quality, even on plain paper. Rated speed is 17 ppm black and 9.5 ppm color. Real life print speed is close to rated speed. Scanning speed is also very quick. Copies are very quick and have excellent quality. Ink replenishment is quick and easy. The EcoTank bottlles are $50 for a set of 4 and provide 6 months of typical use. This makes printing very economical. Load the ink was quick and easy. Just dump the liquid ink into the reservoir. Having a large bottle instead of small cartridge does introduce a bit more risk of spillage, but the design of the bottles mitigates spillage. ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: This $600 printer is probably twice the price of an equivalant printer that requires Epson-proprietary ink cartridges. However, the saving over a year of buying expensive cartridges more than justifies the increased cost of the printer. IMHO, paying more for the printer but paying a fair price for inexpensive ink is also a more honest arrangement. LINUX Wireless and wired networking is availble, as is USB. After connecting to the network or computer, scanning is easy. I use VueScan, but "Epson Scan 2" is available from Epson for free. Like other Epson printers, printing can be difficult to configure. Although, Ubuntu detects the printer, printing fails with the automatic setup. Instead, choose "Manual URI" and type "lpd://EPSONFBD131/BINARY_P1" for the connection. After that, proceed as usual.

Yes, it makes some noise, yes it takes a few to set up, YES it prints very clearly, SAVES tons if coin, this one holds twice the paper in the tray than the one we flat wore out which is very nice. I Didn't even consider going with a cartridge ink jet or a toner headach laser. These things will print a case of paper then you just put more ink in. Alot like your car wanting gas. . The only negative I find at all is it works best if you can reach in from behind the printer to remove printed papers. If I grab them from the front they can get ummm rumpled. So, YES I would RECOMMEND and or buy this printer again. I will update if I see the need but if this printer is like the old one we had I probably won't be negative. Alex VO

I was very hopeful this printer would work. First, the setup takes time and effort, took about a hour including downloading and installing epson suite to communicate with printer. The printer prints fine but the worst is the scanner. You need to load document, then click scan using your computer, then download the scan file into your computer. Too many steps. Scan at 200 dbi looks horrible. Tried at 1200dbi, scan looks fine, but takes 30 seconds per page. Is this for business? I don't know any business that has all the time to wait to scan a 20 page document.

Software and printer pretty much sucks. Does not do multiscan without hanging up on feeder. Coming from Hp printers for years. Got this for its claim to save on ink cost. But the software is really setup for kids, like 10yrs behind in software technology . Not for professional use. Should have gone with and HP eco tank equivalent

This printer is not anywhere near the quality it should be for this price. We had purchased it for a small office and everyone hated it. It constantly jammed and once you solve the jam spits out blank pages over and over. Was able to return it thanks the store return policy but there was a lot of time wasted trying to get it to work. We switched back to a laser printer as we need something reliable….and this printer is not reliable.