Epson EcoTank ET-1810 review 2024: for home and office use

Epson has made the EcoTank printer a must-have piece of gear because it solves the annoying problem of inkjet cartridges that are too expensive. The problem for printer makers is that they need to make the ink tanks more expensive to make up for the money they lost on refills.

Many customers who want the low cost per page that EcoTank designs offer but don’t want to pay up front are turned off by the high price at first. The Epson EcoTank ET-1810, which is its cheapest color model yet, could be one answer. Here, the machine has been stripped down to its most basic function—printing—and sold at a price that home users can afford.

Epson EcoTank ET-1810 Specifications

Design and Build

to make the ET-1810 reasonable, some features found on its more expensive siblings had to be taken away. So, this is only a printer, since it doesn’t have a scanner, copier, fax machine, or coffee maker built in. The EcoTank ET-3850, which costs more, has some of these functions.

Once you take the ET-1810 out of the box, its form might make you think, wrongly, that the EcoTank technology was added as an afterthought to a cartridge design. The strange growth on the right side of the case shows that the ink tanks were not thought about when the internals were made. You can buy this printer from its official website

Print Speed and Quality

Cheap pictures are useless if they take a long time or look bad, but the Epson EcoTank ET-1810 avoids both of these problems. To be clear, this printer isn’t very fast, but it won’t make you wait hours for simple print jobs, either. The ET-1810 took 18 seconds to print the first page of a five-page text document and 46 seconds to finish the job. This is 6.5 pages per minute (ppm).

When timed over 20 pages, it reached 7.6ppm, but I got 16.0ppm out of it by setting the grade to Draft. The ET-1810 takes 1 minute and 31 seconds (3.3ppm) to print five pages with color images. This printer isn’t made for photography. It can only print without borders on 6 x 4in (15 x 10cm) paper, so you can’t even make borderless A4 copies. Each borderless picture took more than three minutes to print at the highest quality; some inkjets are more than twice as fast.

Epson EcoTank ET-1810: Performance

Most users will notice first that it takes a long time to print. Epson says that it can print 10 monochrome pages per minute (ppm), 5 color pages per minute (ppm), and a 10 x 15cm borderless picture in 69 seconds. All inkjet printers are slow to start printing, and the ET-1810 takes ten seconds to make its first black-and-white print and sixteen seconds to make its first color print.

In a business setting, waiting for this printer could be annoying, but it’s fast enough for home use, unless someone decides to print a full-color calendar five minutes before school starts. These numbers are based on the best settings for clarity. If you use the draft mode, you can go three times as fast, but the quality will likely suffer.

Price and Availability

The ET-1810 is available in Europe, but not in the US right now. This could be the right cheap EcoTank to use for sublimation printing, which is popular there, if that changes.

The suggested retail price is £189.99, but you can find it almost everywhere for less. The printer costs £159.99 from Epson and can also be bought from

Final Words

The pros and cons of the Epson EcoTank ET-1810 are easy to see: it has a tank refill system that saves money and prints a lot of pages, but it’s a bit cheap and doesn’t scan or copy and doesn’t have an on-product display to help with jobs.

We’re not sure if you can print as many pages as Epson says you can with these tanks, since we weren’t able to print thousands of pages while we had the printer, but it’s clear that this is a better deal than buying new ink refills every time. It’s easy to get the ink into the printer, and we’d be happy to switch to this way for our own printing.

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