This actually comes off quite easily, but the roll unit can be fitted with/without it in place. Only two (short) cleanings were required – one after leaving the printer unused for well over a week and one after a few days which included a very significant change in the weather. The printer can print these out. [P800 review]. This perhaps seems excessive, but I do a lot of testing of different papers and printers, so it really helps ensure consistency and not wasting paper with incorrect or subtly altered print settings. We are working hard to not only create content but also to build a robust site that can be expanded upon over time. One other thing – if you need to do a clean after a check, leave the printer alone for five minutes before doing another check. I mention this since although the P900 I’m using looks identical, things do get modified/changed in manufacturing. The screen is of good quality and fine detail. EMI is located in the Epson Software folder in your computer Applications folder. As a test, I’d suggest leaving two identical prints overnight with only a note on the back as to which is which setting? To use the front sheet feeder for printing on thick media, 16 inches of free space behind the SC-P900 is needed. Unfortunately the search is not very smart, so my ‘P900’ isn’t good enough. This from the specs: The image is printed oversize for the paper, so you will lose some of it. Have you reviewed the relatively new P7500? My old 3800 can print less than the bottom half of the nozzle check patches; no cleaning or Magic Bullet seems to be able to resolve it so I am thinking the print head is gone. Culling from the range of options I analyzed above, I decided on several key comparisons for Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper, Epson Legacy Platine, and Epson Legacy Fibre. This differs somewhat to the older P800 in that it is powered. Focusing on Figure 33, in cases F, G and H the quality setting uses 5760 dpi, options with versus without CB, and High-Speed ON or OFF. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. One use for a custom media would be to create a copy of a standard media type with altered settings. If the latter has different numbers, update the firmware by downloading and installing it following on-screen instructions. In printer-lingo, the “width” is the width of the printer carriage, for this model maximum of 17 inches, and the “height” is the length of the pano being printed. The front panel allows you to specify custom paper sizes not available in the standard list. Also, the evaluation target I used for the P800 was the 24-patch ColorChecker, while I am now using a 48-patch evaluation target for the P900. In light of the addition of Violet ink to the SC-P900 inkset, I considered it useful to also test this printer against the SC-P5000 (which has a very wide gamut but no violet ink) using the Onsight printer evaluation target made by Scott Martin (Figure 64). Given the variety of settings, I like to save collections of printer settings as a named preset. Click on Paper Size, then scroll to the bottom and click on Manage Custom Sizes (Figure RF 1). ABW provides a bit of contrast boost in this tone area, but not much. This printer can be purchased at B&H Photo. It’s a multishot stitch (hand held) taken under the Humber bridge. It is the successor to the Epson SureColor P600. There’s a limit to how much I can say at the time of writing, because while the machine and paper costs are known, Epson has not provided a utility for reporting on ink used per print and the company has no intention of doing so, notwithstanding that they do provide it for their larger professional models (P4900 onward) and Canon has been providing it for years with the Pro-1000/2000/4000. BTW If you don’t know this image – I created it years ago as a specialist test for B&W printing. Now for the serious part: no-one I consulted knows how much ink you actually get to use from the starter cartridges. For now, focusing on managing the driver, the route to ABW is shown in Figure 10 (macOS version). Thanks. You may benefit from making a custom media setting for it, based on whatever media setting is recommended for profiling, but with a thicker setting – see about half way through the review for more about this. Articles below by Keith (Google's picks for matching this page). Great review, Keith, and thanks for the time you put into them. Keith buys his UK used camera equipment and lenses from: MPB and Park Cameras, Site update: Thanks for everyone's support - work is still very sparse, but at least I've lots of videos, articles and reviews to write - if you've any suggestions or questions, please just let me know - Keith & Karen, Using the right professional photographer, Architecture, interior and construction photography, High Resolution Images and Panoramic Photography, Location based industrial product photography, new box weighed 110g whilst the full one weighed 365g, very wide gamut test image (the Roman 16 set of images – from my i1Profiler installation), There is a new 10 channel print head, which has allowed the addition of a violet ink. All the possible customizations and settings one can make with this printer are clearly laid out in the LCD menus and easily accessible. As usual, we can make Driver Presets of any combination of driver settings we wish to preserve for future use (the “Save as New Preset” option in the driver Print Settings). (Note: The “Baryta” Paper Type was generic pending a specific paper; the driver is now updated with a specific Baryta paper, being Legacy Baryta II, forthcoming early 2021. The difference of Black points with versus without it is not large, but it could be just large enough to enhance color and tone separation in the very darkest end of the tone scale. The cases in Columns I (Mark, High-Speed) and J (OEM profile) are considerably less satisfactory. The ink set does slightly expand the gamut of the P900 from the P800, but images which clearly show it will be few and far between. If you’re jumping several generations of printers, then expect not only the ability to make better looking prints, but a huge jump in printer usability. CB ON (Figure 48 right panel) provides 1.2 levels deeper Maximum Black and slightly more contrast (tone separation) at the very bottom of the scale versus CB OFF. Its gamut is not as wide as that of a P5000, but few photos need so much gamut; it’s within the ballpark of its more relevant comparators (for example, several percentage points larger than the P800, exactly how much depending on the media and its profiling). This comparison informs us that the observations made below for ABSCOL could be largely valid for RELCOL as well. Thank you for your wonderful reviews! Since when did anyone without more money than sense decide on a family car just because it’s top speed was 168 mph rather than one with a top speed of 158 mph? In the P900 (and P700) it goes with the 10 channel print head to allow both blacks to be active at the same time. Epson's other three SureColor models—the P800, P900, and P5000—are 17-inch machines. The P900 a whole new printer and noticeably smaller than the old P800. In those printers it was there to expand gamut for proofing purposes, and not the option you’d choose for photo printing. Epson SureColor SC-P900 A2+ Printer Review Get your Epson SureColor SC-P900 here UK USA DE FR ES IT Canada Product Page The SC-P900 photo printer has been developed with outstanding print quality as standard. Black and white printing continues to improve, although as I mentioned earlier, the highest level print settings give no real benefits and are likely to show increased bronzing on some media. Printing worked fine, as seen in Figure RF 10, which is a photograph of the actual pano print laid on a table, 4 feet long 17 inches high. Epson Print Layout is an app that has previously been available for MacOS and Windows and, with the release of the SureColor P700 and P900, will now be available for iOS. The P800 unit has a spindle which went through the core of the roll and was supported so that paper could easily be unrolled into the printer. Both of them look very similar on paper: high quality multiple ink systems, ability to deal with roll or cut media, and feature the best of connectivity features on offer today. Many thanks for your detailed review. Starting with the profile data (Figure 33 faint green panel, read from ColorThink Pro), the gamut volumes for the three profiles are similar, the Mark profile with CB OFF being about 2.5% lower. For example if I’m being honest I could see myself not using the printer for potentially up to 2-3 weeks between print sessions. There will be no mismatches of papers and profiles, as all will be consistent between computer and printer. Paper with edge curl can skew the page toward the end of the print, printing the remainder at an angle. Some difference between OEM and Custom profiles is always expected, for known reasons. I don’t know whether these differences matter. At this stage, we resume the process of completing the wireless connection set-up so that the printer can communicate with the computer wirelessly. There is a “thick paper” option via the LCD Menu > General Settings > Printer Settings > Thick Paper **, useful if one gets tiny head strikes due to swelling of the media coating. The practicalities of going to 17″ width just became a more attractive option for people with older 13″ (A3+) sized printers. are good. Just remember that printer specifications are there as much to sell printers as to give guidance to what you should use for your prints. 16″ is an ‘Epson size’ – nearly all the paper/canvas I’ve got at this size is on 17″ rolls. However, I have a small 60,000 pixel long version, which on 16 inch paper will print to just over 5 metres long. These compare with the 25ml of the (otherwise identical) carts for the P700. The other two feeds are the front feed for thicker media exceeding 0.50mm thickness, and the optional roll holder for roll paper. With its three feeds plus the DVD printing device, it offers great versatility in the kind of media it will accommodate, including the ability to make long panoramas with the optional roll adapter. The evidence of out-of-gamut (OOG) picture elements shows as tiny image dots that fall outside of the printer/paper gamut spheres, and that I have highlighted with Red oval surrounds. The quality options the driver provides differ depending on the Media Type because CB is applicable to gloss-type papers only. Bummers. You can check via the printer’s web page. Simple features like the LED lighting inside add to ease of use and that builds user confidence – something easily lacking when you start printing your work. You may notice the ‘Gloss smoothing’ option is greyed out in the settings. Media loaded from the front comes out the back first, and is then drawn through the printer for printing. The cost of paper of course varies according to the paper used and its procurement. I found printing from PS rather more predictable in this respect. The reason for testing this condition is that printing time with the higher quality settings, at the extreme, can stretch to 27 minutes for 51 square inches of print on a Letter size sheet. If this occurs during a print, you will lose the print…. There is no lengthy initialisation process, just a bit of whirring and the usual printer doing things noises. Each one of these printing conditions produces different outcomes with respect to (i) accuracy of tone and color rendition, (ii) depth of the Black Point, and (iii) differing gamut; so the objective for my custom profiling and printing is to find out which of the four options is the best overall based on these criteria. I’ve also seen comments online suggesting that the setup ink carts are nearly empty – this is simply wrong. Printing from what software? From about L* 14 upward, the results with ABW ON are more linear and convergent with the target reference values than for the previous four cases. I like panos but on the 3800 there was a frustrating 37″ max length printer driver limit (I am using a Mac). This panoramic print is printed on a lustre paper with a custom paper size, directly from Photoshop, using the ABW mode. I do have a micrometer so I could carefully measure papers. Graphically, the remapping of the dark tonal range is portrayed in Figure 30, which is the leftward graph of Figure 29 whose source target is reprinted with RELCOL and BPC, instead of ABSCOL. Major Savings on Epson SureColor SC-P900 Ink Cartridges, Super Saver Pack on Epson SureColor SC-P900 Ink Cartridges, Unbeatable Deals on Epson Inks, FREE Delivery at Printerinks.com To use this iPhone/iPad app you need to set-up your SC-P900 printer as a wireless device. Likewise, I imported the photo from Paris into Lightroom, optimized it in color under soft proof for Epson Legacy Fibre paper, then converted it to B&W using the Lightroom B&W mode, and found that it needed very little further adjustment, save for a minor brightening and contrast enhancement of the very dark tones in the bottom left area of the photo. We are now ready to load the canvas and print. [P800 review]. I would not suggest getting a spare maintenance cart when you get your first replacement ink carts. The latest version includes operating improvements under the hood and the addition of Carbon Black in the Print Quality settings. 36), (5) Enter a monthly safe rate for the opportunity cost of capital (cell K4) (e.g. I’ve used the P800 in the past (not mine) to mainly print on Hahnemuhle”s Fine Art Baryta Satin. It performs a lot of installation seamlessly. Printing it on Baryta paper at highest quality: 5760 DPI resolution, High-Speed OFF and CB ON, took 9 minutes, 44 seconds. The photographic print defines the true art of photography. The rendition of Black and handling of shadow detail depend more on the user’s photo editing skills, on the paper used, and on driver settings rather than on technical differences between these printers, possibly save for the new Black Enhance Overcoat/Carbon Black (hereafter “CB”) feature of the SC-P900, that I’ll discuss in detail further on. (Figure 45 provides some summary numerical data.) It does not replace the printer driver or the computer’s printing system, but with this application, you need not go there. It allows you to download and install into the driver menu and into the printer software simultaneously new media from Epson as it becomes available, and very attractively as well, to install third-party papers complete with their media type settings and ICC profile. That means that a good looking image on my (calibrated) monitor should make for a good print. Here’s the basic display, showing ink levels and time left to print. We’ll get to that. The maintenance cart is quite low after installation, but current P900s will ship with a spare maintenance tank, which removes that problem. These numbers caused great debate on printer forums and led to claims of vastly superior performance for bits of software that looked after the intricacies of printing for you. The Profile Black Point (CB ON) for the SC-P900 is about one L* level less Black compared with that for the same paper in the SC-P800 printer, but within a range of L*2 to L*3, it’s insignificant – and please see the more important evidence of printed results just below. Introducing the SureColor P900 — a breakthrough in professional printing technology. The two right-most images in the target are particularly aimed at assessing the quality of deep blues and purples, especially the rendition of the tonal gradations from lighter to deeper shades of blue and violet. Individual sheet loading worked well, but a few papers really didn’t like stacking. Let us examine hue neutrality with versus without ABW in the darker part of the tone scale (Figure 44, and please note the differences of the left side scale when reading the bars in each section). I can give it a meaningful name, and if it’s a thicker paper than the media setting I’ve based it on, adjust things like the head height (to minimise head strike chances). It’s fine: good color, good tonal gradations, good dark tone separation, fine resolution, with good profiles capable of accurate color rendition relative to image file values; this means that people who edit their photos in a satisfactorily color-managed workflow with soft-proofing should experience very few surprises out of the printer. In his “other life” (the one that pays for the photography), Mark is a retiree from the World Bank Group and was a consultant in electric power development. Today, after a thorough investigation into the world of photo printers, we present to you two of the very best in the business: Epson’s SURECOLOR P800 and Canon’s imagePROGRAF Pro 1000 printers. Finding photos of this character was challenging, and observing the subtle effect that CB produces – an exercise of careful observation. There are essentially 5 different quality settings, the first two at 1440×720 resolution, the mid or ‘high quality’ one at 1440×1440 and two higher ones at 5760×1440. Seems the cool new Epson Media Installer utility allows for duplicating and editing paper settings – the important one for overprinting is the ‘Paper Size Check’ setting for the paper type you are using. The test patterns are printed and you note results via the screen. It begins with the pano set-up in Photoshop and in the printer driver. Keith has written a book that looks at the many ways that tilt/shift lenses can benefit your photography from a technical and creative point of view. As the print emerges from the printer, it is held in a nicely designed pull-out tray that has a gently sloping gradient preventing the page from falling to the floor (Figure 22). 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