Amazon is currently running a Tech Week sale on a whole range of goodies - and one particular deal caught my eye. It's for the Epson EcoTank ET-2861 that's now £150 (was £240) at Amazon.

It prints, it copies, it scans. And it comes with with three years' worth of ink in the box (four coloured bottles). This budget ink tank printer is a very simple and straightforward model that's well-suited for home or home office use. And I know this because it's the one I bought my mum a few weeks ago.

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Now, I always champion ink tank printers over inkjets - they may be slightly more expensive in the short-term, but they're far cheaper to run using bottled ink, and faster than cartridge-based printers.

The ET-2861 (sometimes labelled the ET-2860 on sites like Argos and Currys, but effectively the same) is no different. I really appreciated the amount of ink you get in the box, letting you start printing right away without spending more money.

It felt quick to print - somewhere in the middle of a fast inkjet and a slow laser printer - Epson lists print speeds on Amazon as 33 pages per minute in monochrome, 15 in colour, and although I didn't time it, that feels about right.

It's not as high-resolution as some of the EcoTank models, especially those aimed at professional photographers and designers, and only carries four tanks, rather than the six that high-end ink tanks possess. But for home printing, I don't think that's a problem at all.

It also has no Apple AirPrint support - although printing via Epson's own app on an iPhone proved no problem at all when I tried it. You can also print direct from places like the Google Drive app, which worked seamlessly.

Set-up is very simple - the longest part of the process was connecting the printer to the Epson app, and that was mostly because of slow Wi-Fi speeds. Once that's done, it's really easy. If my mum can use it, anyone can.

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Steve is B2B Editor for Creative & Hardware at TechRadar Pro, helping business professionals equip their workspace with the right tools. He tests and reviews the software, hardware, and office furniture that modern workspaces depend on, cutting through the hype to zero in on the real-world performance you won't find on a spec sheet. He is a relentless champion of the Oxford comma.