rcooley25  I think you're missing the point.  We are using e-signature as provided (and sold at a high price) by Intuit.  Yes it's true we could print the form and manually sign it.  But we are using e-signature for a reason.  What you're suggesting has already been discussed and lamented in this thread.  We don't want to send out the 8879 for our clients to e-sign, only to have to print it out after they sign, manually sign and date it ourselves, and then scan it back into our digital files.  What a waste of time and paper.  We want the functionality to either (a) just have the ERO name automatically printed on the 8879 (which is allowed by the IRS), or (b) have the e-signature process routed to the ERO as well so the ERO can be part of the e-sign process.  

So, what you're suggesting as the solution, is not a solution at all, and is in fact the whole problem.