We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. The Epson EcoTank ET-4760 All-In-One Printer ($499.99) is the flagship of the company's latest line of small and home office multifunction printers. Like most EcoTank models, this one churns out exceptional output at some of the lowest running costs available. Better yet, it has a feature set that doesn't blatantly sacrifice productivity perks for lower ink costs. This makes it an Editors' Choice for small and home offices that need to print or copy several hundred pages each month without worrying about the price of consumables. Small and Mighty Measuring 9.1 by 14.8 by 13.7 inches (HWD) and weighing 15 pounds, the ET-4760 is smaller than most of its direct competitors, including the Canon Pixma G4210, the HP OfficeJet Pro Premier, and the Epson WorkForce ET-4750. Even with its small size, the ET-4760 still manages to pack in a 250-sheet paper drawer and a 30-sheet single-pass auto-duplexing automatic document feeder (ADF). This model is notably different from Epson models of the past in that it's an off-white color, as opposed to the black coloring we're used to seeing from this company. (It's also available in the traditional Epson black.) Walk-up functions, such as making copies, scanning to or printing from the cloud, sending faxes, and making configuration changes, are handled from the ET-4760's 2.4-inch touch-screen display, which, aside from the Power and Help buttons, comprises the entire control panel. You may find it more practical, though, to access some functions, such as monitoring consumables and generating usage reports, from the ET-4760's built-in website, a feature that is available on almost all printers nowadays. As mentioned, the ET-4760's paper input capacity consists solely of one 250-sheet drawer, with no override or multipurpose tray. That's the same capacity as all the other machines mentioned here, except the Pixma G4220, which holds only 100 pages. Epson rates the ET-4760's maximum monthly duty cycle at 5,000 pages and its suggested monthly print volume at 800 pages, which is a bit on the low side for a printer at this price. The Epson ET-4750 and WorkForce ST-4000 are rated the same. Canon doesn't publish volume ratings for its consumer-grade printers, and the HP Premier's duty cycle is 20,000 pages higher than these EcoTank AIOs, with a recommended monthly volume of 1,500 pages. Getting Connected Standard connectivity on the ET-4760 consists of 100Mbps Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, and connecting to a single PC via USB 2.0. You also get the peer-to-peer protocol, Wi-Fi Direct, for connecting the printer to your smartphone without either device being part of a network. In addition to Wi-Fi Direct, other mobile features include Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, Fire OS support, and Mopria Print Service, as well as the mobile utilities contained in the Epson Connect set of apps and services. These include Epson Email Print, Epson Remote Print, Epson Scan to Cloud, and Epson iPrint App. You don't, however, get a USB port for printing from and scanning to USB thumb drives. And the ET-4760 supports, like nearly every other Epson consumer-grade inkjet printer manufactured over the past few years, what Epson calls hands-free, voice-activated printing via Amazon Alexa's and Google Home's smart home gadgets, as well as support from any other voice technology that uses IFTTT scripting. Out of the box, the ET-4760 can perform only a few specific tasks, such as printing a to-do list or your schedule for the day. With the relatively simple IFTTT scripting language (available at several online sources, including IFTTT.com), you can teach your printer new voice-activated tricks, as well as expand support for other voice-activated technologies, such as Siri on your iPhone, and their devices. Solid Print Speeds Epson rates the ET-4760 at 15 pages per minute (ppm), which is about on par with other bulk-ink models in this price range. To find out how the ET-4760 stacks up against the competing models discussed here, I tested it over an Ethernet connection on our standard Intel Core i5 testbed PC running Windows 10 Professional. Like the several other 15ppm-rated Epson EcoTank models we've reviewed lately, the ET-4760 printed our 12-page Microsoft Word text document at an average speed slightly higher than Epson's rating; in this case, 16.1 ppm. See How We Test Printers That's about the same as the Epson ST-4000 and ST-3000, and just less than 1ppm faster than the ET-4750 we tested back in 2017. Canon's G4210, on the other hand, managed only 8.3 ppm, while HP's OfficeJet Pro Premier printed the same 12 pages at 17.4 ppm. The second part of our benchmarking regimen is designed to assess a machine's graphics, photo, and color printing prowess. The suite of test files contains complex and colorful Acrobat documents, Excel spreadsheets and accompanying full-color charts and diagrams, and PowerPoint handouts containing several different business graphics. After printing and averaging each of these documents several times, I combined these results with those from printing the 12 Microsoft Word text pages in the previous test and came up with a score of 7.6ppm for churning out our entire suite of 26 business-oriented documents. Here, again, all three of the Epson EcoTank models matched or came very close to the ET-4760's 7.6ppm score. The HP Premier came in at 4ppm higher, and the G4210 fell behind by 3.1ppm. Finally, while the ET-4760 is not a photo printer, like most consumer-grade inkjets, it's tweaked to churn out, whenever possible, good-looking images. I clocked it as it printed several copies of our 4-by-6-inch test snapshots and came up with an average time of 28 seconds per test image. Ten to 60 seconds is the norm for churning out snapshots on inkjet printers, often depending on the quality setting and whether the borderless finishing option is turned on. The ET-4760's score at its Best quality setting in borderless mode on our photo-printing benchmark is about average. Quality Output The time-tested PrecisionCore printhead in the ET-4760 consistently produces well-shaped, accurately formed, highly legible, and attractive text rivaling laser quality. It also reproduces the gradients and dark backgrounds in our Excel charts and PowerPoint handouts with little-to-no banding or streaking. Intricate details, such as the 0.5-point hairlines in our test graphs, display prominently and unbroken from end to end. Epson printers in general produce vibrant, accurately colored, and highly detailed photos. As long as you start with good-looking digital image files, you should have no qualms about using the ET-4760 for printing your family's keeper photos or your business's product and other promotional material. This AIO's photos are not, for the perfectionists among us, entirely up to the accuracy, detail, and vibrancy you'd get from one of Epson's or Canon's five- or six-ink consumer-grade photo printers, but you have to look really closely to see the quality difference. Very Affordable Printing Until the introduction of EcoTank and other bulk-ink printers, paying $500 for a printer rated at 15ppm would be considered a lousy deal. Standard cartridge-driven inkjet AIOs with similar speed, capacity, and volume ratings to the ET-4750 typically cost three to five times less than their EcoTank counterparts. With EcoTank technology, though, not only is keeping your printer supplied with its lifeblood frustration-free but, at about 0.3 cents per monochrome page and slightly less than 1 cent for color pages, putting your printer to work whenever you want is no longer an extravagance. Those cost-per-page ratings are among the lowest we've seen. If you plan to print several hundred pages or more each month, it's worth paying a premium price for the ET-4750 when you can save a great deal long-term. Here's why: Epson includes enough ink in the box to print 7,500 black pages or 6,000 color pages, or what the company claims is two years' worth of ink. Using Epson's math, there's enough ink to print about 315 monochrome pages or 250 color pages each month, which is, given the cost of the ET-4760 compared with buying the equivalent number of pages in ink cartridges, a better value. Where the ET-4760 really makes sense, though, is when you print two or three times those numbers, replacing refill bottles a couple times a year. Now, you're saving hundreds, even thousands of dollars over the life of the printer. Few Sacrifices One of our most fervent complaints about Epson EcoTank printers has been that in exchange for low per-page ink costs, buyers would wind up with dumbed-down machines lacking time-saving convenience and productivity features. For a $500 printer, the ET-4760 isn't exactly stacked with high-end features, but its combination of function and low long-term costs more than justify the price. For home and small offices that print several hundred pages per month, it's an excellent pick, earning it our Editors' Choice. Epson EcoTank ET-4760 All-In-One Printer Bottom Line: The Epson EcoTank ET-4760 is an excellent multifunction color printer for small offices that don't want to sacrifice features to get low long-term running costs.

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