The SureColor P700 and P900 printers include a new set of Epson UltraChrome PRO10 inks. A look at the 3880 from ten years ago shows some similarities (ink carts) and how the P900 is, I’d suggest, designed to look more elegant on a tidy desk. Utilizing 10 UltraChrome HD PRO10 ink cartridges, the P900 ⦠I recently swapped my ink cartridges on my epson 3640 to refillable cartridges with sublimation ink. 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. Everything you’ll find here is simply the result of my free thought. The P900 removes the need to swap black inks for matte and glossy papers (mk/pk switch). The printer comes with a spare. This is shown in the Photoshop Image Size dialog – note that the Resample box is -not- checked. Great review, really helpful! There’s a guide to the process on the screen, but the ink carts simply click into place. No graphs? This means the paper (print surface) rests on those grey rollers. The fact that my P700 ICC profiles work with the P900 saved me a good bit of printing, profile making and testing, making it easier to look at how easy it was to make prints at different sizes and media options. The Epson ABW print mode in printer drivers is fine tuned to give better black and white prints, It incorporates toning/tinting, so unless you’re doing mixed colour/B&W prints the ABW mode is best. If you’ve questions or comments, please do feel free to email me at Northlight, or use the comments section at the foot of the article. As we can see, what jumps to the eye from the chromaticity diagram on the left is that the Epson SC-P900 (released in 2020) on this matte paper (and continuing the tests we can tend to generalize to most of the cotton papers) has a gamut very similar to the one of the Canon iPF PRO-1000 (released in 2016!). A question I’m often asked, and like many – it depends. There are quite a few print options in addition to the paper size – here listed in the driver settings for A2 paper. For this image I’ll need a custom paper size, which I’ve created at 406mm x 1020mm. I’ll use the default ‘darker’ setting for ABW for printing these. Our wholesale price on Epson Surecolor P900 is part of our commitment to ⦠The reason I mention/query its possible uses is that a lot of people consider it a replacement for cut sheets at the same size in the vague hope that it will ‘save money’. I’ll just use the cut option here, since I want to print again. Yes, I include myself in this BTW. Available in almost infinite varieties, with their finish they can achieve really bright colors and deep blacks, but paying the price of high reflectivity. The printer notices this and offers three front load options. Top Rated Gear: Epson SureColor P900 17" Wide Format Wireless Inkjet Photo Printer MFR: C11CH37201. That’s enough for a good number of prints, but those indicators are still on the wrong side of half full for my liking. The true source of quality in prints comes from a combination of photographic ability, camera skills, editing and printmaking skills, not dials that go to eleven. Here’s the print on its way through the printer. The optional roll paper unit is now powered, and is a spindle-less design. I’ve looked at this on the P700 but the P900 has distinctly more advanced roll paper handling, so you may want to consider the increased flexibility of using roll paper for long prints. Given the variety of settings, I like to save collections of printer settings as a named preset. *Note that due to shipping damage, my initial new P900 went back to Epson and I used a spare printer, which came already used for a while. This actually comes off quite easily, but the roll unit can be fitted with/without it in place. On certain areas of the chromaticity diagram, the Canon iPF PRO-1000 performs much better as we can better see from the Lab diagram on the right. The normal driver (i.e. I also can’t easily lift it myself… A P5000 update with no black switch and the P7500 type print head would be an interesting device. I’ve seen all sorts suggested in the past. Since gsm has a loose association with thickness it would be better if Epson actually specified these recommendations? It’s likely fine, but if you do get a roll unit, keep the roll paper in it no longer than actually needed. "New P900 is the same size as the outgoing P600" Don't you mean the outgoing P800? After setting your preferred display language and the time/date, the printer will prompt you to load the ink carts. The ink carts of the P900 hold 50ml (down from the 80ml of the P800). As you know one of the prerequisites to print correctly is to profile our printer (and therefore the whole printer body + ink load) for the paper we want to use. The on going cost with Epson ⦠An interior light (LED) optionally illuminating the print area. Yay, no more black ink swap. The “UltraChrome HD PRO10” ink set adds a violet ink to expand gamut. It’s in factors like the size of the printer and its usability that you’ll notice the changes – the black swap is one aspect of this. Getting the light right and reducing exposure, shows the paper (lustre) texture. I am also a proud owner of a P900 and I am very happy; just two issues are causing some headache. Seems the cool new Epson Media Installer utility allows for duplicating and editing paper settings – the important one for overprinting is the âPaper Size Checkâ setting for the paper type you are using. Ultrachrome PRO10 Cyan Ink Cartridge, 50ML (T46Y200) Ultrachrome PRO10 Cyan Ink Cartridge, 50ML (T46Y200) $41.99. I’ve more about this in the P900 setup article and my P900 setup video). EPL works as a standalone application and can be used with some other editing packages. The practicalities of going to 17″ width just became a more attractive option for people with older 13″ (A3+) sized printers. One thing I’d note on Mac systems is to avoid any AirPrint options. This is from a print of my B&W test image when I was looking at the effect of different settings. Printing should be similar for other editing applications and on Win PCs, *This is the ‘mystery paper’ I’ve used in several articles, since I’ve an unmarked box of the stuff. Note the P900_700 bit – this is what first alerted me to just how similar the P700 and P900 are from a print quality POV. The paper trays are light and have an elegance about them. So much so that I found myself jabbing other printer screens wondering why nothing was happening. The top feed folds upwards and extends to support paper. In the search for candidates, this time I’m going up a level in the print size to bring me from my current maximum A3+ to A2, which for the segment of professional home photo printers we can say represents the new upper limit. The top feed did show some light leading edge marking on some soft art papers – these were probably a bit too thick and perhaps best fed from the front. My observations about the ‘best’ settings not being the ‘best’ come as no surprise. I have an image from few years ago that was printed at some 47 feet long for an exhibition. Just as I first spotted on the P700, the two highest quality settings for photo papers produce a bit too much bronzing for my liking when printing B&W. The tray is inserted and matched up to the guide lines on the feed slot. If you do really need roll support, then don’t forget that excellent (~3 times the weight) 17″ P5000. No, the reasons for getting a P900 are ones like wanting to making big prints, or moving from an older simpler printer. 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. The features I like: ability to print poster board, roll paper as I make a lot of panoramas. Is the limit on pano length gone? I’m sure Epson have their reasons for their ink cart strategy, but I can’t help feeling that offering interchangeable ink carts for the P700/900 at 25/50/100ml would have been a far more customer friendly approach? 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. If you’re new to printers of this size, note the difference between an A3+ (13″ x 19″) sheet of paper in the top tray, as opposed to an A2 sheet. The full ABW range of settings are available, but experience has told me that leaving these at their defaults is almost always best. My main concern is the nozzle’s clogging up during periods of low useage. I’ve also seen comments online suggesting that the setup ink carts are nearly empty – this is simply wrong. Using the printer a lot means loading/unloading the paper a lot. The paper output path has what are sometimes called ‘Pizza wheels’ – As with the P700, none of the prints I made showed any marks from this. Unfortunately, they ⦠The print comes out. In the P900 (and P700) it goes with the 10 channel print head to allow both blacks to be active at the same time. The latter should be dictated by artistic intent rather than by paper size. The EPL software only has the auto version. As a side note if the P800 also is free of that silly limit I might look for a second hand one. Keith has been trying out Epson’s new P900 printer for this longish review. In the image below we can see a 2D representation of the Adobe RGB color space (in red) in Yxy coordinates that will be our workspace with which we will properly prepare our images before printing. Luster, which just wouldn’t stack and feed at all. Longevity improvements are (IMHO) mostly a marketing feature – for printer and print sales ;-). The main setup requirement is to get ink fed through the ink system ready to print. This evaluation is thus made by trying to understand how the same paper behaves on the two printers. Note that you shouldn’t connect up networking until you install the driver and software on the computer you want to print from. Regular cleaning should not be needed for a new printer. If we want to notice a trend, the Epson SC-P900, always talking about the chromaticity covered by both printers, would seem more able to handle high luminance, while the Canon iPF PRO-1000 allows us to have deeper blacks. Well I was having issues getting those refills to work so I went back to my original epson ⦠i know it is quite unusual but i have a project that require that paper. I can see no obvious improvements in the highest quality settings for most images. Match the ink name/colour to the right slot. With appropriate colour management it should be capable of this. 16″ is an ‘Epson size’ – nearly all the paper/canvas I’ve got at this size is on 17″ rolls. Read all reviews for EPSON Expression Premium XP-900 All-in-One Wireless A3 ⦠To contact Epson ⦠I note that it’s not defaulted to on in any of the basic quality settings. Let’s extend our dimensional world into the third dimension and so let’s see how the two printers behave on this glossy paper also in terms of luminance. âPreliminary data for the Epson 10-color UltraChrome PRO10 pigment inks in the new SureColor P700 and SureColor P900 create stunning museum quality prints with WIR Display Permanence ratings that ⦠Notice how I’ve wheeled out the printer table (it’s on castors). When I had the P700 here I looked at the alternative direct wireless access. I’d suggest being careful if you want several sheets loading in the top feed, since some A4 Premium Luster paper just wasn’t happy with multiple sheets, whilst a cheap glossy photo paper could be stacked 20-30 deep. This time was usually pretty accurate. One other observation about borderless printing. In short, here I would never expect real printing problems even with the Epson, but it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth that such a new machine performs like a 4 years old one. If this is too delicate for you, then you need an altogether more industrial printer like the P5000. The printer is similar, and from a print quality point of view, identical, to the smaller Epson SC-P700. 0.14 W, Operating Systems: Mac® OS X® 10.6.8 or later, Windows® 10, 8.1, 8 and 7 (32-bit,64-bit)7, Temperature: Operating: 50 Ë to 95 ËF (10 Ë to 35 ËC), Storage: -4 Ë to 104 ËF (-20 Ë to 40 ËC), Humidity: Operating: 20% to 80% (no condensation), Sound Level: Approx. 24 W | Sleep Mode: approx. Thank you for your wonderful reviews! The printer is some 25% smaller than the P800. This article is not supported or sponsored in any way by the two brands mentioned: they have not provided any material or support for its drafting. The printer has its own web pages, which duplicate some of the device the settings you can access from the front panel. This is a P700 cart. Is it the result of a correct Color Management?) © Copyright 2020 Francesco Gola | All Rights Reserved | PIVA: 02730980428. You don’t need to take measurements from it, but they can assist in finding optimal driver settings for a particular paper, Remember – the highest ‘quality’ print setting may not be the ‘best’ for many people. To prove what I was saying, if we take one of my images with very saturated colors on blue and green, I still have no problems with either printer because saturated blues and greens in nature never reach critical values. This manual comes under the category Printers and has been rated by 1 people with an average of a ⦠The paper is then wound back fully, ready to remove the roll. Here’s the P900 unit – a much more complex bit of kit. By all means experiment, if you have suitable supplies of paper and ink, but do step back every so often and be honest in evaluating what you see. There is some more info about EPL below, but the majority of my printing was from Photoshop. Leave the highest ‘print quality’ settings for marketing purposes and make great looking prints at the mid (or even the lower/faster) settings. Years ago, when printer drivers were simpler and computers and printers lacked the processing power to quickly apply fancy scaling/resizing/dithering algorithms, you could get improvements in print quality by using resolutions (pixels per inch) that were a multiple or simple divisor of the native resolution of the print head. BTW I called Epson printer support was disconnected every time rather than reaching an agent! The 17″ width (A2) printer replaces the P800, but is a major new design, not only being smaller, but increasing the ink count to ten. If I had a reliably working 3880/P800 with plenty of ink, I’d need to want the lack of black ink swapping an awful lot to update. This differs somewhat to the older P800 in that it is powered. cut-sheet size 17″ x 22″, Sheet Loading: Main Top-loading Up to 17″ x 22″; up to 120 sheets plain paper, 30 sheets photo paper, and single sheet loading of thicker fine art paper, Front Media Path Up to 17″ x 22″; single sheet manual feeder, designed for thicker papers up to 1.5 mm thick, Single Roll-to-Roll / Top-loading Roll: 17″ roll, Printer Language: Epson ESC/P® raster photographic drivers standard, Interfaces: Hi-Speed USB 3.0 (1 port), 100Base-T Ethernet (1 port), 2.4 GHz (802.11n) and 5 GHz Wireless (IEEE802.11 b/g/n/ac)6, Wi-Fi Direct®6, AirPrint®, Google Cloud Printâ¢, Epson Print Layout for iOS, Rated Current: Less than 1 A/110 â 120 V, Power Consumption: Printing: Approx. Since it’s identical when working with the P700, I’d suggest also having a look at my notes on using EPL with the P700 in the review if you want to see more examples of using the software. Certainly not by making a classic review, as it would be too much subject to the printing skills of the author and in any case based on a subjective feeling dictated by holding a printed sheet in the hands (Is it printed correctly? The result of this profiling (performed with a spectrophotometer) is the legendary ICC profile. What does it mean? Roll paper is great for some things, but not some magical money saver ;-), The P900 has a rather neat design for its roll unit, but I’m still not 100% convinced I’d want to use an expensive paper in it, with the paper surface resting on the rollers. The installer is also a way of updating paper settings that may not have been available when you set up the printer. There is also an article about setting up and using the optional Roll paper unit  as well as a short video. The display shows the image being printed. Surely this for me is definitely unexpected. The carts simply click into place. For B&W printing, I printed both directly from Photoshop and Epson’s Epson Print Layout software. kofiwidget2.init('Buy Keith a Coffee? On Epson Premium Luster I found that a slight bronzing intruded into the higher quality settings ( 4/5 using ABW) On some papers the standard (lowest) setting gave the best tonality. It took twicee as long as the setting I thought gave the best looking results. The printer is relatively small and easy to move – it doesn’t take up the space you’d have thought of for a 17″ width printer. This will give me two presets, identical in all respects (size/quality) but for different papers. With black and white prints on photo papers, results vary with the paper. This is after it is fully loaded, ready to print. That means that a good looking image on my (calibrated) monitor should make for a good print. For this lustre paper it’s not available with any setting. No surprise, given my testing of the P700, but the P900 is capable of very nice B&W prints. Utilizing 10 UltraChrome HD PRO10 ink cartridges, the P900 ⦠An A3+ profiling target took just 3 min 30 seconds to print at the standard setting whilst a version at the very highest quality settings took just over 22 minutes. Here’s a 16″ roll (100 feet of paper) loaded, with the front edge fed into the loading slot at the rear. A 4.3″ flip up touchscreen makes general use of the printer easier. With Epson Premium Luster the line is reasonably smooth – enough that I’d likely not make any adjustment to any image before printing. However, even with my specialist B&W test image I’d be hard pushed to get anyone to tell the difference. I’ve printed directly from Photoshop via its print dialog, and using EPL as a Photoshop plugin, where it’s accessed from the Automate menu. In particular, dropping the graphs in the real world, with the Epson SC-P900 I can push a bit on the chromaticity of blues and greens (great for seascapes and forests for example). The guides have different markings on either side. That means that when it’s resized to 15″ wide to fit 16″ roll paper, it has a resulting print resolution of just over 515 pixels per inch. I’ve not tried this on my P600 yet – and recycled my P800 before I as able to run similar testing. I’ve profiles available for some – they are available on request strictly for non-commercial use. The roll unit is another bit of nifty design, but do think of why you want to print, and of what. When you try to write an article like this where you compare two products in direct competition, the pitfalls (and fanboys) are around every corner. It now needs connecting to whatever you want to print from. Am I going to resample it to 360 ppi (pixels per inch) or some other ‘magic’ number to better match the printer? The front of the next print will have extra space on it, so it’s worth noting that you’ll probably have to further trim long prints. Many thanks for your detailed review. Here, the screen is showing an update in progress, with my laptop in the background running the set-up software. …or you can check from the printer front panel. The most obvious difference youâll notice is print times. As with the rear/top feed, the media is centrally aligned. There were no problems with photo papers but I’d want to remove paper from the holder when not in use – I’d definitely not want to leave a full (heavy) roll in the printer overnight. In the example below, I’ve selected Epson premium luster paper and the correct profile has been automatically selected (this is optional). If you use the Epson Media Installer to create or install media types, there is the option of specifying a profile to be picked when choosing your custom media. I can feel the questions coming – what resolution am I going to actually print this image at? For my printing I’ve used Photoshop (CS6) and the Epson Print Layout (EPL) software. 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