Epson EcoTank ET-4760 review

Our Verdict

The Epson EcoTank ET-4760 offers busy offices very low ink costs, enough of features, and solid operation.

For

Fast printing and copying
Very low ink costs
Quick duplexer
Loftier image quality

Against

No secondary paper tray
High price
Duplex prints look lighter than single-sided prints
Does not make two-sided copies/scans via ADF

Tom's Guide Verdict

The Epson EcoTank ET-4760 offers busy offices very low ink costs, plenty of features, and solid functioning.

Pros

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Fast press and copying
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Very low ink costs
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Quick duplexer
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High image quality

Cons

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No secondary paper tray
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High cost
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Duplex prints await lighter than single-sided prints
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Does not brand two-sided copies/scans via ADF

The Epson EcoTank ET-4760 ($449) is an inkjet all-in-one that's built for heavy printing duty in a pocket-sized part or domicile part. Outfitted with high-chapters ink tanks, the ET-4760 is built to impress thousands of pages, nonetheless keep ink costs very low.

This EcoTank model prints, copies, scans and faxes. In that location's a duplexer for making two-sided prints, and a 30-folio automatic document feeder (ADF) for drawing multipage documents across the scanner glass. It offers a fair number of features and respectable performance, making it a contender for the best all-in-1 printers. We liked it so much, nosotros named it one of the best printers in our 2021 Tom'south Guide Awards. Ink costs per page are extremely low, although your overall savings may require thousands of printed pages compared to less expensive models with office-worthy features.

Epson EcoTank ET-4760: Design

The ET-4760 has a small-sized two.4-inch color touchscreen on its control console, which tilts upward almost 90 degrees. The screen is on the small side for navigating menus for stand-lonely operation. The simply physical buttons on the control panel are for the ability, home and assistance functions. There is a USB port, Ethernet port and fax port, plus support for Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct. There is no USB thumb drive port or memory card slot.

Like other tank models, the ET-4760 has windows into the ink tanks on its front panel, so you can encounter if you lot're running low on ink. The initial set of ink bottles should last y'all a while, however. The bottle of blackness ink is rated to print vii,500 pages, while each bottle of color ink lasts an estimated 6,000 pages.

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This EcoTank is quite meaty, measuring 10 x sixteen.4 x 19.8 inches when set up to print. It's also lightweight, at just 15 pounds. A 250-canvass paper tray is at the bottom of the unit. At that place isn't a secondary paper tray, and then y'all tin't go on more than 1 kind of paper loaded. When switching paper, you will demand to alter the paper type in the settings carte du jour; paper type is non automatically detected.

The ET-4760 has a 33.six kbps modem and can shop up to 100 pages. The unit of measurement tin store upwardly to 60 speed punch numbers.

The all-in-one comes in black or a creamy off-white.

Epson EcoTank ET-4760: Print speed

The ET-4760 printed documents chop-chop on plainly paper. Information technology printed a five-page text document in 27.1 seconds, or 11.1 pages per minute (ppm). The average is 33.1 seconds, or 9.1 ppm. Similarly, the ET-4760 printed our 6-page text and color graphics document faster than the average. It printed the document in ane minute and 32 seconds, or 3.4 ppm. The boilerplate is 2 minutes and 16 seconds, or two.2 ppm.

Our letter-size glossy photo printed in 4 minutes and 34 seconds. This was slightly slower than the boilerplate by 11 seconds.

2-sided impress speeds were fast. Two-sided text documents printed at 6.v ppm, and mixed text/graphics documents printed at three.two ppm. While these speeds were much slower than the more expensive Epson ET-5850 (14.5 ppm and nine.5 ppm, respectively), they were much faster than the less expensive Catechism Pixma G6020 (2.3 ppm and 1.viii ppm, respectively).

The ET-4760 copied a page of mixed text and color graphics in 30.one seconds, which was faster than the boilerplate of 34.eight seconds. It as well copied a blackness-and-white page quickly, doing so in 12.8 seconds, compared to the average of 19.ii seconds. The EcoTank scanned a page in black-and-white to PDF format in roughly average time, making the 300 dpi scan in 12.four seconds. Scanning at high resolution to JPEG format, withal, was on the slow side: Compared to the average of ane infinitesimal and nine seconds, the EcoTank took 40 seconds longer to make the aforementioned scan.

Epson EcoTank ET-4760: Re-create and scan speed

The ET-4760 is quick at copying in black-and-white, and faster than the average at copying colour documents. This EcoTank copied a color page in 30.i seconds, versus the boilerplate of 34.8 seconds. Making a blackness-and-white copy of a text certificate in 12.eight seconds, the EcoTank bested the boilerplate of 19.2 seconds by a significant margin.

Using its ADF, a five-folio text document copied in 1 infinitesimal and vii seconds, or 4.5 ppm. By contrast, the pricier Epson ET-5850 was much faster, copying the same document at 13.eight ppm. The less expensive Canon G6020 does not have a document feeder.

The ET-4760 does not brand ii-sided copies from two-sided originals via its ADF.

Blackness-and-white scanning was a little slower than the average. The ET-4760 scanned a page in black-and-white in 12.4 seconds, versus the boilerplate of 11.half dozen seconds. Color scanning, however, was quite tedious. It took the ET-4760 virtually two minutes to capture a color certificate (one minute and 49 seconds), versus the average of 1 minute and nine seconds.

Epson EcoTank ET-4760: Impress quality

Text prints with fairly sharp edges and adequately dark letterforms. Upon close examination, however, there is some ink splatter beyond the messages and some lumpy-looking edges.

Graphics looked very attractive, with well saturated colors that looked very natural. Pixels were visible in some areas where textures could take looked smoother, however, which also contributed to some fine details not looking razor sharp. Overall, still, graphics looked quite attractive.

The biggest print quality allow-downwards was with duplex prints. Making a 2-sided print of the same document, both text and graphics came out a little lighter, with a slightly done-out appearance that fabricated fine details look a little less sharp, and made the sense of depth look shallower.

The ET-4760 made faithful reproductions of text and graphics. Whether copied or scanned, the EcoTank captured sharp details and accurately reproduced natural-looking colors. When using the ADF, withal, in that location were occasional anomalies in multi-folio copies: I line of copied text looked stretched out and demonstrably taller than the previous one, suggesting a problem with the newspaper feed. Photographic scans, which came out a little dark, lost details in shadow areas. Compared to scans made by our Editor's Choice, the Canon Pixma TR9120, these scans looked darker overall, with more abrupt dark mid-tone transitions, and lacked some sharpness in the finest details.

Glossy photos printed with plenty of details, smooth textures and well-saturated colors.

Epson EcoTank ET-4760: Ink price and yield

The ET-4760 has iv ink tanks. One bottle of black ink is rated to last 7,500 pages. Each of the three colors (cyan, magenta and yellow) is rated to concluding 6,000 pages. The black ink costs $19.99 per bottle, and the color inks sell for $12.99 each. At that place is besides a iii-pack of color inks, merely information technology will only relieve you lot 2 cents. No affair. With folio yields this high, you'll spend only 0.2 cents per text page and 0.nine cents per color page.

So, is this ink tank model right for your wallet? That could depend on your print volume. For example, compared to the $200 Brother INKvestment MFC-J995DW, which uses ink cartridges, the ET-4760 will salve y'all 0.seven cents per text page and 4.1 cents per color page. This assumes the MFC-J995DW is outfitted with high-yield cartridges (standard yield cartridges have a slightly college cost per page). Given that the MFC-J995DW costs $249 more than the TR9120, you lot will need to print more than 35,000 text pages or 6,000 color pages to compensate that actress investment.

Epson EcoTank ET-4760: Setup and software

After removing roughly a dozen pieces of packaging tape, y'all fill up the ET-4760's ink tanks, which is easy to exercise. Later turning on the printer, it takes near 10 minutes for the ink charging process. The startup guide lists the URL for downloading software (there is no QR code). The software parcel includes a setup utility, scanning software and fax utility.

Afterward selecting your connection blazon on the screen, you connect your estimator (if using USB). If you lot cull to put the printer on your wireless network at a later time, you only follow the on-screen menu selections, which are self-explanatory.

Earlier printing, you need to perform a printhead alignment. You impress v pages of lines and blocks, and and then select which of the seven sets is best aligned or does non overlap. This completes the setup.

The ET-4760 supports a variety of mobile apps and protocols. Yous tin use the company'due south Epson Email Print, Remote Print, and Browse to Cloud apps, for case, in add-on to Epson iPrint for iOS and Android. Also supported are AirPrint, Google Cloud Print and Android printing, for example.

Startup was relatively quick, with the principal bill of fare screen illuminating in 8 seconds from pressing the power button.

Epson EcoTank ET-4760: Verdict

The Epson EcoTank ET-4760 offers office-worthy features and functioning, and ink costs so low yous might fantasize about what yous'll do with all the money y'all'll relieve. With an initial cost of $449, however, you would demand to print thousands of pages to make upwards the difference between the ET-4760 and, for example, the less expensive $200 Blood brother MFC-J995DW, which also offers low costs per folio with its high-yield ink cartridges.

Fast printing and fast copying make this printer a skilful fit for a small office, and its footprint is minor, though you may miss having a 2nd paper tray. The duplexer makes for user-friendly 2-sided prints, but pages print lighter than single-sided documents. The printer's ADF enables quick copying and scanning, simply anomalies in copied documents suggest the document feeder may non be totally reliable, which is unfortunate for an function workhorse.

All things considered, if yous demand an office workhorse for heavy impress and re-create duty—while keeping ink costs extremely low—you volition nigh likely discover the Epson EcoTank ET-4760 to be a valuable office all-in-ane.

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