On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:21:48 -0500, Christine Aguila wrote: > Hi All: > > Is anyone using the Epson P600?
I just got one this week! > > Care to share your thoughts on print quality and user workflows > and/or issues? I have only done a few prints with it so far. I don't see a lot of difference in colour print quality between it and my old R1800. But for black and white it is FAR superior. I was limited to matt paper if I wanted a decent B+W print with the R1800, so it is great to be able to use glossy paper. Not really sure about the workflow, yet, but that seems to be similar to the R1800. The P600 does not seem to be a very fast printer, though. After you send a file to it, it sits there for awhile humming, clicking and buzzing before it deigns to print it. > > My Epson R2880 is still working, and I have been printing lately, > just now in fact, but the rollers aren’t always grabbing on the first > try of a print. I often have to try a few times before the rollers > agree to grab the paper and run the print. I’m a big Velvet Fine Art > user. Love that stuff, but I have to use the back feed, and it’s > been fussy lately. On the P600 you feed the fancy papers into the front of it. It then seems to transport the paper up and out of a slot in the back...then back in for printing. I keep my printer on a shelf in this sort of closet/alcove next to my desk. It was a tight fit for the R1800 but it worked. The P600 is a deeper printer, so I don't think I'll able to use any papers which need to be fed from the front. Time to start looking for somewhere else to put it... > > I’m definitely considering P600 so that I don’t have to change-out > the photo and matte blacks. I see the ink cartridges are much bigger > and $32 a pop (listed on the Epson website). Any thoughts about ink? It consumes ink during the changeover, but you probably knew that. > > If you have the P600, have you tried it on metallic paper or any > other specialty papers? Thoughts? Quality? I have some metallic > paper I want to try on the R2880, and may soon, but I’m still > interested how it works on the P600. Not yet. I've only tried it with Ilford Heavyweight Duo Matt, Inkpress Pro Gloss and Moab Exhibition Luster. Good results with all of them. --- Steven Sharpe - The Office Gallery [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
