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Epson WorkForce Pro ET-8700 EcoTank All-in-One Supertank

 & William Harrel Former Contributing Editor

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Meet the Epson WorkForce Pro ET-8700 EcoTank

This snappy, high-capacity WorkForce Pro can churn thousands of pages at a fraction of the running costs of most competitors, with ink bags that last for long periods without swapping out. And it's hard to tell from the outside that it's a bulk-ink model.

Put Your Ink in the Drawer

The EF-8700's ink bags load in individual drawers, one for each color.

Plenty of Paper Handling

The ET-8700 can hold 330 sheets of paper: 250 sheets in the drawer labeled C1 up front, and an 80-sheet tray that pulls up from the back. It also supports an optional 500-sheet cassette, bringing the total capacity to 830 sheets.

A Top-Mounted ADF

The WorkForce ET-8700's ADF will scan up to 50 two-sided document pages automatically, without user intervention.

A Slick Control Panel

The well-laid-out, spacious control panel, anchored by a 4.2-inch touch screen, makes walk-up functions easy to configure and initiate.

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William Harrel

William Harrel

Former Contributing Editor

Bill's Experience

For nearly a decade, Bill focused on printer and scanner technology and reviews for PCMag, and wrote about computer technology since well before the advent of the internet. He authored or co-authored 20 books—including titles in the popular Bible, Secrets, and For Dummies series—on digital design and desktop publishing software applications. His published expertise in those areas included Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, as well as prepress imaging technology. (Over his long career, though, he covered many aspects of IT.)

In addition to writing hundreds of articles for PCMag, over the years he also wrote for many other computer and business publications, among them Computer Shopper, Digital Trends, MacUser, PC World, The Wirecutter, and Windows Magazine. He also served as the Printers and Scanners Expert at About.com.

Bill's Expertise

  • Imaging and prepress technology
  • The SOHO, SMB, and enterprise printer and scanner markets
  • Printer and scanner technology (and accompanying software)
  • Consumer-grade and pro-grade photo printing
  • Mobile printing and scanning
  • Optical character recognition (OCR)
  • Document management

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