2020 has been filled with some really terrible, terrible things... But, the worst
thing, in my opinion, are cartridge printers. Hi guys, I'm Tom. Welcome to the
channel. Today we're going to be unboxing something that I am super psyched about
and I guarantee you it's not this this is a cartridge printer. It's got
cartridges like Cayenne wack yellow magenta and to replace those colors it
can cost you nearly $100 Not today. YEET! Today, we're taking a look at my new printer,
it's the 80/20 720 x n' eco tank so what we're gonna do is we're just gonna we're
gonna open this guy up we're gonna see what comes in the box I'm gonna give you
guys my first impressions and we're gonna set it up and maybe print
something so let's get into it I should probably tell you how much this got cost
so I bought this guy from Office Depot for two hundred and fifteen dollars and
99 cents free shipping so in my opinion instant went already because knowing
that I was going to replace ink which I have for years with that printer I spent
a little bit of extra money I now have a tank printer that's going to take
regular bottle ink and hopefully save me some money in the long run if you guys
are interested I'll make sure to throw a link below that you guys can check out
this the said printer but let's let's open the box so right off the bat we
have paperwork and a software disc which I don't I don't have a computer that
uses these anymore but so once we unpack everything we're gonna have to dive
those are foreign we might have to jump right back into these directions with a
power supply
we have our ink and our printer so another reason that I bought this
printer in particular was it's a Wi-Fi printer I don't usually keep my printer
in the same room having something like a wireless printer it just makes your life
so much easier it also has mobile print so you can print directly from your
phone it's great I thought the price point was was pretty good there's one
thing about this printer in particular that I'm not super excited about but
we'll get to there when we start taking a look at it so one of those things that
surprised me actually with this printer is how light it is
this printer straight out of the box this printer is only 8 pounds 13 ounces
this is literally less than a bag of potatoes it weighs the exact same as 8
pounds 13 ounces of feathers yeah I know it's crazy ok so we are going to take
the tape off and this guy is absolutely covered oh that was that would have been
oh no that would have been so satisfying I don't ever feel like there's a right
way to remove the tape from these things
turns out there is so here it is in all of its glory
I like white it looks good it's sharp it's clean its super light as you guys
can see on the front of the unit there's windows that showcase the different
tanks once you put the ink inside you can see the different levels and
hopefully kind of gives you some sort of insight it gives you insight into how
little this ink company is trying to screw you I started looking at eco tank
printers after seeing a video by Austin McDonald about how ink cartridges are
scam I'll throw a link to that video also it's an incredible video and it
really shows you the price point of low price printers high priced ink for
suspending a little extra hopefully on something like this where your your
dollar goes a little bit further so so back into the instructions because
I've actually never filled a printer with ink before so we unpacked it check
fill ink tanks oh that comes right out oh look at that so this guy opens right
up and then Oh like a traditional ink cartridge it's labeled on the inside and
you just I'm assuming squirt your ink in there so inside this little flap it's
labeled the type of ink that you get which is five to two and it's got it's
got the four different colors which which are right here which are black
blue pink and yellow all right fill the e tanks so let's just start out with
black all of these packages are vacuum sealed there's definitely a lot of care
that comes in to the transporting edge of this product okay so I want to make
sure I know I'm doing this right unpack the ink twist it off do you not
shake or squeeze the bottle don't touch the top that's what she said
this looks pretty foolproof wait for the ink to fill the tank do not squeeze the
bottle so here we go we're gonna turn this upside down
I can hear it actually let me show you guys okay so right here all we did was
was turn the ink upside down there's little there's you can't really screw it
up as you can see right there there's a there's little notches at the top of the
ink cartridge it just pulls in there and gurgles up and fills the tank that is
pretty cool
I don't know how long to wait while it fills it sounds like it's done but you
know like at the end of a ketchup bottle it's kind of what I want to do but I'm
not going to want to get I want to get the most bang for my buck like how long
do i wait I think we can do blue while we wait
oh so let me show you this bottle okay so know if you guys can see it clearly
but there are there's little divots on the top and the bottom of the bottle
head and those are to slide right in to the little divots on the side of blue so
let's do this one next
it is very satisfied oh you can see it with the light there how much ink is
going in look at all of that ink that's insane and then you can see it in the
tank I love this and that's it so I'm gonna let those sit for a hot second and
I want to show you something so prior to actually buying this entire setup new
printer I went out and bought a new black ink for my old canon pixma like
old Canon Pixma printer this package cost me like eighteen dollars for this
one small black cartridge it weighs 1.7 ounces in the package this tomb of
yellow ink 3.7 ounces so I just looked up on on Amazon the same exact ink kind
that 5 to 2 ink you can buy black blue red and yellow compatible Epson ink on
Amazon right now for $25 that's insane and you're getting so much more okay
onto another color I'm gonna take these ink tubes out
there's still a little ink in there I'm gonna save these thrifty okay so we're
this is a full tube for 3.7 ounces there's still one point three ounces
left in that container or that container weighs one point three ounces let's see
if that's consistent with the black one there's still a little bit of ink left
in this guy as well one point two ounces so it might be one of those things that
the tank can only hold so much and they're guaranteeing you right off the
bat that you are able to fill an entire tank I'm gonna still hold on to those
and I will see if if they take more once I start printing a little bit right onto
yellow so you guys can see in the yellow one that there's just a little bit left
at the bottom of that cap that's not going into the tank these are called
Auto stop tanks also so it might be one of those things that once it's full it's
physically not allowing any more ink to get inside the printer okay so we're
done with yellow and last but not least magenta I wouldn't know what to do if I
put the ink like in where it wasn't supposed to be it might be cool though
as like a printer like if you were to put like blue in the black and the black
and the yellow and the yellow and the magenta and the magenta and the Cayenne
cyan cyan is its ionic I am I feel like cayenne is definitely a pepper it is
love that it's so satisfying so as that's filling up I'm going to clean off
our workspace and get the power cable ready to set this printer up so while
this printer is super light and it doesn't feel very rugged it's mostly
plastic and I think that's why it is so light but the size of it isn't terrible
either it only runs 15 inches by 12 inches and stands 7 off your table
very very
small so on to something that I wasn't super psyched about buying this printer
my old Canon printer had a slot tray where I was able to put I think between
30 and 40 pieces of paper so I didn't have to load them this printer does not
have that and instead it has a back tray so the paper that you do put in this
machine is definitely is definitely limited which is unfortunate I don't
like the way it looks I also feel like sometimes your paper gets dusty
depending on how long you have it out and it definitely doesn't hold doesn't
hold a ton of paper which is another super unfortunate thing we'll leave that
in there now but we are gonna plug this guy in so let's see the startup menu
there's something that they're calling ink charging it might just be priming
priming whatever rollers or jets that they they use but we are currently
plugged in moment of truth power button
there we go and we're in English just good there's a lot of different nuances
between the different models that Epson puts out one of the things that didn't
bother me but my bother somebody else is the size of this very very tiny
navigation screen it's a little over one inch by one inch it's really small
there's no way around it it's just it's tiny
the printer is already making some noises welcoming it to the world I don't
want this either it says preparing right now
never ever in my life would I think that I would be so excited about a printer
see the start here bundled with the printer or on the website to complete
installation this is what I don't like is when it's just like you're good when
instructed to see the start he or she press and hold the question mark button
Help button for five seconds one two three four five there we go
start installation confirm that the tank is filled with ink what does that button
I did it this is actually kind of loud initializing do not turn the power off
until the initialization is complete this takes about ten minutes
so with that being said I'm going to turn off the cameras and I will come
back once this has totally finished
okay guys so we are almost there but I just wanted to show this off just to put
in perspective how small that screen is that's a that's a quarter so it's a
little bigger than a quarter it's it's a really tiny screen okay so we we just
got installation and initialization completely it definitely says
initialization okay so here we are all we have to hit is okay for done and
we're done so after the ten-minute initialization the printer then had me
run multiple printing tests from checking the print nozzles to aligning
print heads and then picking the best one out of seven pretty color patterns
or patches that had the least number of lines once that step was complete the
printer was ready for use I then set up my Wi-Fi which in all honesty was a bit
of a headache due to the limited typing controls and capabilities of the printer
but after at least one failed attempt I got everything working perfectly
going into printers shows write-up epson et 2720 oh that was fast
now we're gonna print out pages I wrote test row tests on a piece of paper print
this bad boy oh it registered look at that I'm really glad that if you guys
are interested in looking at this printer on Amazon like I said I will
throw links below for the ink and also for the printer itself if you guys liked
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while you're at it I'll see you guys in the next one peace