Lightroom 2015 with Advanced Black and White on Metallic Advanced Black & White on Epson Metallic Photo Paper Glossy vs 3880 I suspect this is due to the 3880 having a more finely tuned ICC profile which mirrors results I’ve seen from other papers as well. The print result was darker with less tonal range than the equivalent job sent to my 3880 and printed on the same paper. I did have to wait 1 minute, 34 seconds to change to matte black ink but that was over 30 seconds faster than the time it takes my 3880 so this wasn’t a problem either.
Fortunately, printing via the front manual load tray was very easy and worked brilliantly.
When I printed on Velvet Fine Art matte paper, the printer driver forced me to use the manual front loading tray.
Fine Art Printing using Matte Black vs 3880 You must preconfigure your printer via the touch LCD with the correct paper type and size but AirPrint loved to send print jobs as 4圆 on letter paper in my limited testing. I was also happy that the app offered a decent selection of Epson media types, paper sizes, and even maintenance settings:Ĭheck remaining ink directly from your phoneĪpple AirPrint on iOS 8.4 worked without any hassle but the results were unimpressive due to lack of options, and the color wasn’t as accurate and vibrant as the Epson iPrint app.Īpple AirPrint on iOS 8.4 works, but use the app for best results While the source image could have used a bit more sharpening for printing via this mechanism, the color and quality was great. I did print a 22mb full-size JPEG taken from a Canon 5Ds from the app and it worked great. Read more to see how it did! Printing via Epson iPrint 5.1.1 from Apple iPhone 6
As a result, I didn’t bother to compare the prints to the R3000 and instead put it up against the 3880 instead. Yes, my 3880 had better ICC profiles which helped it to outperform the P600, but the prints I got were all excellent and very close. Those are tall words as the P800 is replacing a legendary model, but everything I’ve seen from the P600 except for the quality of some of its ICC profiles (which is fixable) indicates that this printer is certainly in the same league.
My contact at Epson tells me this printer is very similar to the Epson Stylus® Pro 3880 replacement, the Epson SureColor P800, except it has 25.9ml cartridges instead of 80ml. Software Updater keeps you up to date with no hassle Not only did this printer work flawlessly the entire 8+ months that I’ve been testing it, but it kept itself up to date with the latest software via its handy Software Updater app: What’s more, it handled roll prints very well, so I even found myself doing small Exhibition Canvas and banner jobs with it. However, when I needed a high quality print I found myself not even bothering to fire up my 3880 and trusting the P600 for the job instead. I loved using the P600 as my everyday printer with plain paper jobs, as well as doing simple 4圆 prints for my wife. In part one of my review I sang the praises of the ease of setup, but over time I really fell in love with it even more. Fortunately this printer has passed with flying colors as I’ve never once had any networking problems nor have I had a single print head issue even after not using it for seven weeks in very dry weather. I like to use a printer for a while before rendering an opinion because most photo printers can shine with just basic testing, but it is the test of time that surfaces issues with print heads clogging and network communication problems.