The Epson ET-2850 lets you print to your heart’s content without worrying about cartridge costs. Instead of those wallet-draining plastic boxes, the printer comes with a less costly ink reservoir that also benefits the environment.

This compact A4 printer offers some basic office-centric features such as auto duplexer and flatbed scanner, with wireless functionality as an extra convenience. Its relatively cheaper price compared to many other similar EcoTank printers, though, means you’ll be giving up an ADF, a touchscreen panel, an NFC, and a front paper input tray.

Features and Highlights

Designed for Tight Spaces

Even with the bulging ink tank sticking out on the front right, it’s still a compact printer weighing about 5.4 kg. When closed for storage, it’s 4 inches wide, 13.7 inches deep, and 7.4 inches tall. When it is printing, the dimensions expand a bit to 22.3 inches deep and 10.2 inches tall. Despite the relatively small build, it can hold enough ink to pump out thousands of pages before you even think about refilling.

Adequate Paper Handling for Most Users

Sitting at the back of the Epson ET-2850 is its paper input tray, designed to let you stack up to 100 sheets of plain paper or 20 sheets of photo paper. It has no extra paper tray. The front tray is only used to hold prints. For scanning pages, all it offers is just a platen, which is painful to use for bulk scanning but adequate for occasional jobs.

Duplex Printing Made Easy

This is the printer to choose for anyone planning to print a ton of double-sided pages. Its auto duplexer simplifies the printing, and what’s more, it prints them almost as fast as printing single-sided pages. Five double-sided text pages took only 1 minute and 32 seconds to print out, which is much faster than the Canon Pixma G6020.

About Epson ET-2850 Resetter

The Epson ET-2850 has an internal counter that estimates the amount of waste ink absorbed by some hidden sponges called ink pads. The estimation isn’t based on the actual physical condition of the ink pads, but rather based on the number of operations that generate the waste ink.

Once the counter estimates that the ink pads are too saturated to absorb more, the printer is taken as a hostage, and the only official solutions available seem to benefit Epson more in one way or another.

This free Epson resetter acts as a workaround to bring your printer back online. It’s relatively easy to use. No setup, no strings, no cash. Just run it and go.

Epson ET-2850 Resetter Free Download

Resetting the counter keeps your Epson ET-2850 from locking up, but that’s only half the job. You’ll also need to take the ink pads out of the printer and either clean or replace them. Otherwise, the waste ink has nowhere to go, and you’ll end up right back at square one.

The best part of this workaround is that you can fix the issue without spending a single cent to Epson if you’re willing to clean the ink pads. You can click the link below to download Epson ET-2850 Resetter free for Windows: