Hey everybody, my name's Tom. Welcome to the channel!
Here we like to talk about all things tech & keep it 100%
honest and transparent. About three months ago i released a video
unboxing and giving you my first impressions of this epson
et 2720 eco tank printer i wanted to make this follow-up video
answering the questions that you guys asked on my previous video as well as
showcasing a full color print and the quality that this printer can
deliver but before we get into that i want to talk about some of the pros and
cons that i discussed in that last video just for you new folks
one of the pros of this printer is that it obviously doesn't take
any more cartridges in my last video i walk you through the entire process of
setting this up including putting in the bottles that
are full of ink now i've used this printer for three months now and the
only one that has even gotten remotely low
is black and that's because i do a lot of printing
for shipping labels on ebay as well as other text documents for
scripts and stupid youtube stuff and when i say that's the only one that's
gotten low i've only used about a quarter of the
tank so let's just jump into it the first thing we're gonna do and test
is the quality of a full sheet color print
one of those negative things that i mentioned in my previous video
is that the paper doesn't have a tray it loads in from the back that's the
only place it can go my concern was that if you have
lingering paper for a long period of time
you would get dust and it can then ruin the quality of your print as well
as the internals of your printer but i haven't had any issues in three months
so let me do a little bit of digging and we'll find a picture and
we'll print it another one of those things that i wasn't super happy about
when i first jumped into this printer was this super tiny display size this
display is literally one inch by one inch which
it's so tiny that's what she said the navigation to type in characters for
a wi-fi password is also fairly difficult
but once you do it once and hopefully you don't have to do it again
it does become easier and the navigation is
is pretty seamless okay so the first thing we're gonna print
is a color testing board it has a gamut of colors
all the way from white to deep black gray yellow blue green pink red
blue you guys are gonna see so once this comes out i'll just take a quick peek
with my own eyeballs will then scan it in and i'll show you
guys a digital copy of quality so one of the questions that i came
across in my old video from you guys is can this printer scan wirelessly
and the answer for me and i've gone through it a hundred times
is no it doesn't seem that there's a connection a wireless connection to
start scanning so there's only usb something like that
is not a make or break for me it doesn't really matter
it's a little bit of a headache at the point where you do have to scan
something in and bring your laptop um a little bit closer
to where your print station is so let's
take a look at this together okay so as you can see it did really
well on white to deep black there is a little
bit of um like head overlap on some of these
smaller black lines uh you can see it a little
bit more faint with some of the colors hopefully you
guys are able to see now a little bit more of what i meant
by there's overlapping print heads the quality of light to dark is really good
and i mean that's what i use this for i use
this for document printing and it's flawless colors are pretty vibrant
as well knowing that there's only four colors i
swear i won't say cayenne black yellow magenta and cyan it's
pretty incredible that you can get such an
array of vibrant colors onto the next stupid okay so the next thing we're
gonna do is print a real life color photo
a picture camera photo something with detail
so while i do identify as a photographer none of my photos are nearly as
compelling as somebody that i look up to that
person being peter mckinnon so what we're going
to do is we're going to print a couple of peter's photos
the highest qualities that i could find on the internet
and we'll take a look at those uh with my naked eye on the print and i'll also
scan those in for you guys to kind of analyze and critique
before we start printing this um there was a question about how loud this
printer is so in the middle of this print test you
guys are going to see me grab a db reader
i'm gonna tell you what uh the volume is me talking from
about you know here and uh then i'm gonna
tell you how loud the printer is it's not loud it's it's a printer but
it was a question so i'm here to answer it the decibels of my voice right now
are about 75 db and it looks like we peaked at about 71
for the printer so it's really not that loud of a printer
especially if you're in an office setting it's no more than
somebody talking to you from two and a half feet away hope that
answers your question um this is beautiful so uh we went with
a darker photo right off the bat ground level shooting the road tons of
detail in the the original digital photo i'll uh i'll
throw that up right here so you guys can take a peek
at what that actually looks like obviously it's going to be a little bit
more condensed uh that we're dealing with youtube
compression and a smaller image size but let's scan it in
and i'll show you what i'm seeing so while this is scanning i'll answer
another question this is one that was riddled throughout
my comments section and although i have not done this to my
printer there are places that you can find more
information on it the question that was asked was can the et2720
do sublimation printing if you're not familiar with what sublimation is
it's a special ink type that prints and you're able to transfer it it's
transferable ink so you're able to make designs on t-shirts
book bag yeah whatever you can put you can put your printed designs on
things short answer yes the et2720 is
able to do sublimation printing and you can buy
bulk sublimation ink on amazon all you have to do is
search for it and you'll easily find it the issue with the et2720
is filling the tanks with sublimation inc i'll try to find some resources that
in my research helped dissect and better explain the
sublimation process or to transfer this printer to a
sublimation printer it does seem to be a little bit of a
headache as you're going to be filling the
sublimation ink reverse through the printhead if it's
something you want to tackle it is possible yes you can sublimation
print with this but it's not an easy task hopefully that
answers that question right off the bat i can see a couple
more little print headlines that run vertical this time
which makes sense the print heads that we saw on
on the color palette also ran vertical so they obviously they run vertical on
here too so while we're waiting for everything
else to scan i'm going to print the rest of the photos
this photo that's coming out right now is 1200 by 570.
i am seeing a lot more in the lighter sections some
of the overlapping heads which makes me think i'm gonna actually run some
diagnostic tests and maintenance on this the first thing
i'm gonna run is a nozzle test so this is basically just telling me
what i've used the printer for my serial number my firmware so this is
now telling me since the first time printing on for
420 i've printed a total of 196 pages which is pretty incredible so
that's a nice little diagnostic we're gonna
skip ahead though this this process actually took a while and i documented
that whole thing in the first video so again i'll be
right back okay so i just reset all the heads and
went through the process of choosing the best number
so a couple of them were off or have
changed since i used the printer so we should be good now i am now printing
one last photo to be able to scan in and show you guys
it's a lighter color photo higher depth the quality
is pretty good but there's still some really terrible lines that go throughout
and it's got nothing to do with our ink levels it's definitely a
a head alignment issue but let's get uh let's get some of these scanned in
and give you guys a better look so needless to say i've been having an
issue trying to get this to scan after changing the dpi settings on my
computer it says it's no longer communicating
with the scanner so i've used multiple usbs and i still
can't figure out what the problem is so rather
than wasting memory card space and time i'm
going to shut this off and then come back to hopefully a workable
situation okay so i do believe that we are good to go scanning again the issue
was that my computer no longer had the drivers
necessary to scan with the et2720 so
after going back on their website refining them everything seems to be
working perfectly now i will say that i learned
something today i didn't know that this printer actually does have a quiet mode
so the question that was uh does this printer have a quiet mode
yes uh mine's off and it's even quieter i'm assuming than uh than what i
previously told you i don't want to turn it on but
yes it's got one so the more you know okay so as you guys
can see after scanning this image right here it's
apparent that there are lines in the middle of the road the
transitions of lights to darks is pretty good but uh you can also see
in the dark areas that those lines are pretty
prominent so uh as far as a quality test we'll do it
with the other photos but um i can't say that i'm
happy or excited or that this is even a photo
printer but you guys asked for it so here we are
i'll scan in this photo next i think this is a perfect example of
the quality distortion let's just call it quality distortion
um that this printer does have so in this case i think it's important
to see the side-by-side of the digital versus
the scan um one of the things you'll know right
off the bat is that the color looks very washed
uh not to mention the details in the rocks and in peter's face
all seem to to blend in now that's definitely a dpi issue
uh not so much with the scan because i'm looking at it with my own eyeballs
and it's just not good i think it's safe to say this is not an
hd photo printer which we all knew but i
i think it's good to kind of get that out there just in case you were thinking
about buying this to do uh prince for uh actual photos
probably not the best bet now it's also very very small
the details in his face and the rocks and
mountains and everything else so let's just do one more
of this photo right here you can see he's a little bit more detailed in his
face you're still coming across lines i think
what you really need to do is see the side by side
now before we take a look at the side by side of this scan
and detail i want to answer one more of the questions that you guys left for me
on my previous video this question was also asked a lot and the question was
can this printer print on cardstock because i don't have cardstock to test
i did a little bit more research this is how i answered you guys
i said i do believe that this printer can take up to 20 pound paper test
but card stock is actually a hundred pound i think 110 pound
yes so no uh but i have heard of people printing on
a slightly thicker test paper but you're not going to get a card stock print
out of this printer or so the frequently asked questions and
stats of this printer say you're more than welcome to try it out yourself
if you do let me know in the comments below and i'll
be sure to highlight that cool let's take a look at this
okay so uh the first thing you'll see in the side by side comparison
of this photo digital versus the scanned is obviously the drastic color
and contrast difference the blues are a lot lighter in the print version
and it just doesn't look as good now the details in peter's face are
pretty quality and they don't look terrible but i have a really hard time
getting past the the print head alignment lines it
seems to show up a lot more on lighter printed
on lighter printed pictures so uh take that with a grain of salt but
needless to say this printer does exactly what i want it to do
i think for the price which is still currently 199
on multiple places i'll throw some links in the description below for you guys to
check out it's a great printer and the whole
purpose of having a tank printer versus a cartridge printer
was to hopefully save money on my basic print needs
so that's exactly what it's doing i use this printer for work
not so much for printing and selling something
as beautiful as this but that's gonna be it i hope that this deep dive into the
quality check of the et 2720 epson ecotank printer
helps you decide if this printer's for you or if you need
something a little bit more a little bit more better a little bit
better thank you again for watching all the way to the end my name is tom
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