Epson EcoTank ET-2850 vs Epson Expression Photo XP-8800

Although both are all-in-one inkjet printers, the Epson Expression Photo XP-8800 and Epson EcoTank ET-2850 suit different purposes. The XP-8800 is primarily a photo printer; it produces detailed photos with decent color accuracy. By contrast, the ET-2850 is a small or home office printer. It uses a supertank system with refillable ink tanks instead of traditional cartridges, yielding thousands of pages per tank. Performance-wise, though it can reproduce a wide range of colors, its color accuracy is terrible, resulting in photos that look noticeably cool and different from the originals. These two trade blows regarding document print quality; the one weakness of the XP-8800 is that black and white documents have a purplish tint. As for scanning, neither printer produces particularly great scans.