Epson EcoTank L3210 review (2024)

Color printing, particularly on A4 paper, has traditionally been a quick way to deplete your ink budget. However, the Epson EcoTank L3210, free of cartridges, offers full-color prints with an impressive 90% cost reduction.

This compact inkjet printer, designed for scanning and printing, is perfect for small offices due to its low-profile design.

Despite its minimalist design, which lacks a paper drawer, Wi-Fi support, a touchscreen display, and an auto-duplex mode, it’s a must-consider for any office or home worker in need of high-quality color printouts.

Designand Build

For an A4 office/home printer, the EpsonEcoTank L3210 looks quite stylish in its black and grey livery. Unlike most traditional printers that came with cartridges, the Epson EcoTank L3210 features four ultra-high-capacity ink tanks instead of cartridges. This allows for mess-free refills and extremely low printing costs.

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And to keep things sleek and minimal, there’s no paper drawer at the front, just the rear paper in-tray, no USB host port, no Ethernet port, and no LCD dispay.

This is a simple print-and-scan device, so there’s no real need for a touchscreen interface. Instead, there are just four buttons on the front panel, which include the power button and light, the B&W copy button, the color copy button, and the stop button.

There’s also one port at the rear for a USB data cable (the USB data cable is not included in the box). By stripping back to the bare essentials, you’re left with a low and lightweight printer with a flat top that’s ideal for inspecting your printed documents.

Epson EcoTank L3210: Features andSpecifications

The main attraction of the Epson EcoTank L3210 is its use of ultra-high-capacity ink tanks instead of cartridges. Swapping cartridges for bottled ink makes a saving of 90% and ensures this Epson will trounce any inkjet or laser when it comes to cost per color page.

You also get plenty of inbox ink, with Epson quoting up to 3 years of ink in the box. There are two bottles of BK and one each of CMY, yielding a total of 4,500 pages for black-and-white prints and 7,500 pages for color prints.

That’s significantly higher than the yield of traditional cartridge printers, making it a budget-friendly option for frequent printing.

Here’s a breakdown of the ink bottle yield for the Epson EcoTank L3210:

• Black ink bottle:Up to 4,500 pages
• Cyan ink bottle:Up to 7,500 pages
• Magenta ink bottle:Up to 7,500 pages
• Yellow ink bottle:Up to 7,500 pages

This being the first installation, some of that ink is needed to prime the pipes between the tanks and the printheads, so those numbers may increase, but that’s still a lot of printing before you have to refill. It’s this high capacity for ink that makes this one of the best printers for a small office setup.

The Epson L3210 also has a rear tray that can hold 100 sheets of paper. However, there’s no LCD, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC, front USB or Ethernet ports, or front paper tray.

The L3210 also doesn’t support auto duplex, meaning you have to turn the paper over yourself to print the other side.

However, I do appreciate this printer’s focus on quality, high-volume printing. With 180 black nozzles and 59 colors, tiny dye ink droplets are used to make up images with a resolution of 5760 x 1440. That’s sharp enough for a good photo.

Epson EcoTank L3210: Setup and Operation

Setting up the Epson L3210 is fairly straightforward. You’ll need to connect the printer to your laptop using a USB cable (you’ll have to buy one since one is not included in the box). After connecting, you have two options to install the required software.

You can go to Epson’s support page for the L3210, select your operating system, and download theDrivers and Utilities Combo Packageinstaller file.

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Or you can use the Driver and Utilities CD included in the box. Just pop in the CD and follow the prompts to install all the necessary drivers and software.

I used the CD with my Windows laptop for initial setup, but either the CD or downloading the combo package will work.

The process should be similar for Mac setup as well. The lack of a touchscreen display, which has become a common feature among office printers, didn’t make the L3210 any harder to operate.

However, the lack of a front paper tray proved more inconvenient because it meant I couldn’t load up a stack of fresh paper and forget about it. The exposed rear tray isn’t a great place to store paper, and it can only hold up to 100 sheets.

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