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List Price: $549.00
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Epson
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Epson
Color: Black
EAN: 0010343866058
Feature: Get superior glossy prints with Epson UltraChrome Hi-Gloss 2 pigment ink
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Epson
Manufacturer: Epson
Model: R1900
Modem Description: None
Publisher: Epson
Special Features: nv:Print Method^Inkjet|Resolution^5760 x 1440 Optimized dpi|Dimensions^24.3"W x 31.4"D x 16.3"H|Connectivity^USB 2.0|Standard Paper Input^120 Sheets|Paper Sizes Supported^Letter|Paper Sizes Supported^Legal|Paper Sizes Supported^A4|Paper Sizes Supported^4" x 6"|Paper Sizes Supported^5" x 7"|Paper Sizes Supported^8" x 10"|Paper Sizes Supported^Super B|Paper Sizes Supported^A3|Paper Sizes Supported^B|Paper Sizes Supported^11" x 14"|Paper Sizes Supported^12" x 12"
Studio: Epson
System Memory Size: 0.064
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Features
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Get superior glossy prints with Epson UltraChrome Hi-Gloss 2 pigment ink
Print photos with greater vibrancy and better facial tones with Epson¿s new Red and Orange ink cartridges
Maximize the color gamut and achieve better print quality with Radiance technology
Produce gallery-quality prints faster with improved print speeds
Create amazing panoramas with included roll paper support
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Editorial Reviews:
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Create amazing albums, full-size scrapbook pages and professional glossy photos up to A3+ at high speed, and on a wide range of media. Images are vibrant and long lasting with the new Epson UltraChrome Hi-Gloss2 ink.Print and share superb photos with the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 and achieve quality, color and flexibility to create your hobbies and crafts. Make use of the creative potential of the wide range of media and formats up to A3+. Achieve more life-like colors and skin tones with the new 8-color Epson UltraChrome Hi-Gloss2 ink.Whether you print borderless photos or design entire album pages, your precious creations will last a lifetime. You can even print onto CDs and straight from your digital camera.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Ink troubles
Comment: I wanted a printer with good ink color reliability, because I want to start selling photographic art. Got this printer 'cause of price and specs. Ink runs out very quickly when doing large prints. Not everyone carries this ink. Can't refill these cartridges, can't reset the counter chip. BOOO Epson!! You make us throw away cartridges with lots of ink in them!
Also, the Epson printers (Photo R200 and R1900 on my desk) both print DARKER than Canon printers, even though I use similar workflow and similar color management in Photoshop CS3. (of COURSE I was substituting the CORRECT printer profile between the different printers).
My recommendation: Get a Canon printer. Epson is a pain in the a** to get the right colors and the ink cartridges are major pain in the wallet.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Second Thoughts
Comment: I've read all the reviews posted and am declining purchase. I don't have enough wall space in my 3,300 sq. ft. home to allow the printer to pay for itself if I covered the walls with prints. So many reviews compared what they see on their monitor (RGB additive) to what they see in print (CMYK subtractive)> This is my living, I'm in the graphics/ printing profession since 1984......all the color management tools will never make these two mediums match perfect.
I have a 24 inch monitor, when I look at photos on it they are huge and they are THERE. How could I be satisfied with a 4x6 print?
I have a Nikon D80 that can produce a 2,592 x 3,872 pixel image.... not near enough for a 13x19 print. For an optimum resolution 10x13 print that won't turn to noise and grain, you better have a 12.25 megapixel camera, and forget satisfaction if you go as far as 13x19. It seems this size is a device to make you by ink refills.
I'm just going to order my prints, the few at a time a casual type like me will order, larger than 8x10, never 4x6, these are a multitude of little pests to fumble with. We have computers and televisions; most of us have rather large televisions we paid two thousand dollars for. I suggest you;
1. Archive all your photos on DVD-ROM. I can burn 900 photos on to one disk.
2. produce slide shows of all those otherwise pesky 4x6 prints onto another DVD for your big screen tv.
3. Have a photo service print your favorite enlargements for framing and let them worry about ink costs and paper and clogged heads and color management and paper skews, computer errors, cartridge defects,etc. Their competition keeps costs low enough that you'll never spend $500 dollars before you cover your walls...oh, did I mention the cost of framing all these prints??????!!!! Or the cost maintaining this contraption in hours? You'll be home tweaking color and balance to make it "Just right " with what you see on your monitor and blowing ink to clear clogged printer heads, and calibrations and printerhead alignments because you don't print everyday instead of going out shooting new photos.
Most of these troubles I don't have with the printer at work, however, it cost $24,000. All $500 can do for you is shell out more for tiny ink cartridges. The ink cartridges I use at work are over 670ml. each. The price per ml. (about $ 0.40. this includes a new head and a cleaner pad), compared to these 13ml. jobers well, more than a dollar per ml.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Epson Delivers
Comment: Let me begin by noting that I am strictly an amateur photographer and may lack sufficient printing snobbery to fully critique this marvelous device.
That done, this is a terrific photo printer. I ran through my greatest photo hits on 8 1/2 x 11 photo glossy and found the results far superior to my HP photo printer. The colors pop, the B&W looks a bit dark but I may need to mess with the settings more, and the speed is terrific---each one popped out in under a minute.
I'm always leery of ink pricing and consumption. This printer holds up there as well. Current pricing is <$16 per cartridge; I printed a dozen of these large portfolio prints and only used about 15% of the black cartridge (others were barely touched). While refilling 8 of these at once will cost a whopping $128, so getting bang for the buck is the name of the game here.
Pros -
Fast
Gorgeous prints
Low ink consumption per print
Able to handle wide variety of prints from 4 x 6 up to panoramic photos
13" wide
Able to print directly on CD and DVD (no more need for a separate printer)
Cons -
Takes up a LOT of desktop real estate
Expense in replacing 8 cartridges @ $16 per
More complicated than necessary first time setup
Does not accept media directly for computerless printing
Bottom line---my old photo printer's off to Goodwill.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Quite simply, not worth it.
Comment: For this review, I'll be comparing to my designed-for-matte-paper Canon Pixma Pro9500 photo printer. The Epson R1900 photo printer is designed more for glossy prints, so it's interesting to compare the two.
Test bed:
MscBook Pro, OS X 10.5.5
Apple Cinema Display 23", color-calibrated with a Spyder2 Pro.
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl paper
Ilford Inkjet Glossy Photo paper.
The box is packaged as you might expect. Tape all over the place. Once you get the printer de-taped, you'll find an assortment of ink cartridges, and, *generously*, an extra gloss optimizer cartridge. I purposely put an asterisk on either side of that work, because this cartridge is notorious for running out rather quickly.
After getting the printer set up, cartridges installed, it's time to install the drivers. This goes smoothly - stick the CD in the drive and you're away.
OK, let's move on to printing. After editing a few shots in Photoshop with a very specific color cast, I printed them on both my Canon Pixma Pro9500 and the Epson R1900 with the correct paper profiles for each, and using both paper types listed above. The difference was not huge, but being able to compare the two, it was obvious which was more accurate: the Canon. No question. The Epson added a slight yellow cast to each photo, which drives me nuts. The Canon was spot on each time. Interestingly, I purchased the Ilford glossy paper specifically for this review, and was blown away that the Canon had no trouble at all printing to it, and produced a much more pleasing tone compared to the original image. This said, and to the Epson's credit, the actual print quality is VERY comparable between the Canon and the R1900.
But, frustratingly, the Epson R1900 seems incapable of properly printing borderless. First, it crops a little off all four edges, whereas the Canon crops an almost unnoticeable amount by comparison. But worst of all, every Epson borderless print left a few ink spots on the very right hand edge of every landscape shot. I called Epson directly and they said it was "normal" for borderless shots to get an excess of ink on the edges. Fair enough, but the Canon has no such trouble, so this is disturbing to those who want to feed a 4x6 and end up with a 4x6 print without a border to trim.
Lastly, the printer was used a few times this week, and as of the morning this review was written, the prints coming out were disastrous, akin to a Polarioid halfway through its "transformation" process. I ran a nozzle test, and indeed, the ink must have somehow dried out overnight. I had to a run a full head clean, which resolved the issue. Again, I can't help but make the comparison that the Pixma Pro9500 has never had this issue since the day I got it, many months ago. Not impressive that the Epson has this issue after several days...
Overall, I can't really recommend this printer. It crops the edges too much, gets ink on the edges on borderless prints, doesn't print accurate colors even after calibration, and eats ink like you wouldn't believe. And the jet clogging has just left me paranoid...
2/5
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Printer - When It's Working...
Comment: I bought this printer in March of 2008 so the one I have is about 6 months old now. I use it primarily to create art prints on photo rag paper.
I have been very impressed with the print quality and once I figured out how to work with ICC profiles, impressed with the colors I was getting from it as well. I was looking forward to testing it out with different types of paper.
However, it recently started showing banding throughout my prints. After about a week of trying different methods to clear it including all the officially recommended ones of running nozzle checks, cleaning cycles and aligning the print heads, and going through a ton of ink and replacing most of the cartridges, I still have had no luck unclogging it. So I guess some of the stories you hear about Epsons clogging up are true...I have to tell you I did not use it for about a month because I moved--maybe this is why??
The Epson customer service rep also suggested it could be the photo rag paper I use...getting dust into the print heads, he said. But he said it wasn't a problem to use the paper, but I should load it from the rear, which brings me to the second issue I had with this printer, trying to get paper into it from the back.
Should have been easy in theory, but I found that for some reason it would often refuse to load paper from the back. I read on the internet this could be bc the photo rag paper was dusty and sometimes printing a few sheets of regular paper would help to clear it out, but oftentimes I would spend 2 hours trying to get the paper to load--it would go through w/o printing, show the paper error light, refuse to print, then I'd have to turn it off then on, wait for it to be ready...can you imagine how frustrating that was! I found it much easier to load the paper through the top, but maybe this is the reason for my ink banding problem, who knows, I am not an expert...
Also recently I have noticed some of my prints getting black ink residue around the edges after they run through the printer.
I spoke with Epson customer service this afternoon and I was pleasantly surprised (bc of some of the reviews) to find they were very helpful and I didn't have to wait. They are overnighting me a new (refurbished) printer and they said they feel confident it will be the best thing for me to do. I don't...but I will update as to how things turn out with the replacement.
I hope it will turn out to be the solution as I have been very happy with the printer when it was working properly.
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