Product Description
,Canon imageCLASS D1120 Laser Multifunction Copier ,Canon PIXMA iP4820 Premium Inkjet Photo Printer , HP J3680 Officejet All-in-One Printer , HP Photosmart Plus Wireless All-in-One Printer ,HP CP2025N Color LaserJet Printer From the Manufacturer Designed to deliver your creative vision without compromise, the Epson Stylus Photo R2880 includes an advanced ink set and versatile features for incredible quality and control. Boasting the same technology professional photographers demand, Epson UltraChrome K3® with Vivid Magenta Ink gives the R2880 a larger color gamut for more saturated reds, blues and purples. This innovative ink set also employs three–level black technology for outstanding tonal range, while Advanced Black–and–White Photo Mode gives users the control they need, ensuring stunning neutral or toned black–and–white images that rival darkroom prints. Taking image quality even further, Radiance® technology delivers truer, more lifelike color with improved highlight and shadow detail. This powerful machine has the flexibility to create beautiful prints on a full range of professional and fine–art media, including glossy, luster and canvas up to 13 inches wide. Achieve professional results every time with the quality, control and versatility of the Epson Stylus Photo R2880.
Epson UltraChrome K3 with Vivid Magenta Ink technology
This professional, 8–color ink set with advanced magenta pigments provides more dramatic reds, blues and purples for exhibition quality prints. Its three–level black technology delivers richer blacks, outstanding tonal range and an unprecedented gray balance, all of which ensure stunning black–and–white prints. This pigment ink set offers color stability, which means the prints you view right out of the printer stay consistent over time. And, it boasts print permanence ratings up to 200 years or more*. So, whether you want to display your prints or sell them in a gallery, you can be sure they’ll last for generations to come. With Epson UltraChrome K3 with Vivid Magenta, you get print quality and longevity that satisfies the most demanding professional photographer.
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Radiance technology
Epson partnered with world-renowned color scientists at the Rochester Institute of Technology to develop Radiance technology, an advanced mathematical architecture that optimizes the use of each color more efficiently to maximize the total color gamut. Radiance also ensures smoother tonality in shadows and highlights, as well as reduced grain and vivid colors that stay consistent in virtually any light. The result is a truer photographic look outstanding image quality.
Advanced Black–and–White Photo Mode
Part of an advanced workflow, this exclusive technology is your key to intuitive and consistent control, for stunning neutral or toned black–and–white prints. Choose from one of four preset menus — neutral, warm, cool or sepia. Or, fine tune your image further with custom slider bars and the color tone wheel that gives you precise control. Customized settings can be saved and recalled to achieve consistent prints every time.
Multiple Paper Paths
Direct CD/DVD Printing
Print Panoramas up to 13" x 44" long!
Professional media versatility
Explore your creativity with a printer that supports a full range of professional media, including luster paper, fine art paper, Epson Exhibition Fiber Paper and even roll paper. Print brilliant panoramas up to 44 inches long, on canvas or other media types. Or, print borderless prints in popular photo sizes. This versatile performer accommodates 1.3 mm thick art boards. And, you can even print directly onto ink jet printable CDs and DVDs for professional digital portfolios..
Advanced MicroPiezo® print head with AMC™
Our Advanced MicroPiezo print head with AMC (Advanced Meniscus Control) is at the core of Epson’s advanced ink jet technology and enables the Epson Stylus Photo R2880 to deliver such incredible detail. This permanent, high–performance print head creates variable sized droplets as small as 3 picoliters and places them with remarkable accuracy and precision. This professional print head also incorporates an ink–repelling coating which decreases maintenance and increases reliability. Working together with Epson PreciseColor™ technology, the print head delivers consistent print quality every time from every Epson Stylus Photo R2880.
Advanced MicroPiezo® AMC™ Print Head
Features/Benefits
- Create exhibition quality prints with brilliant reds, blues and purples using Epson UltraChrome K3 with Vivid Magenta Ink
- Produce stunning neutral or toned black–and–white prints via Advanced Black–and–White Photo Mode
- Print images with outstanding tonal range through three–level black technology
- Achieve smoother color transitions and improved highlight and shadow detail with Radiance technology
- Explore your creativity — print on a variety of media types including roll paper, fine art media or 1.3 mm thick art board
- Ensure consistent output from printer to printer with Epson PreciseColor™ — no calibration required
- Receive specialized support for the R2880 from a dedicated team at Epson
- Weight and Dimensions (WxDxH) — Weight: 27.1 lb, Printing: 24.3" x 31.4" x 16.3", Storage: 24.3" x 12.7" x 8.4"
Epson Ink Supplies 96 Photo Black UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096120) 96 Cyan UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096220) 96 Vivid Magenta UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096320) 96 Yellow UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096420) 96 Light Cyan UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096520) 96 Vivid Light Magenta UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096620) 96 Light Black UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096720) 96 Matte Black UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096820) 96 Light Light Black UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096920) Premium Photo Paper Semi-gloss, 8.5" x 11", 20 sheets (S041331) Velvet Fine Art Paper, 13" x 19", 20 sheets (S045637) Premium Canvas Matte, 13" x 20’, 1 roll (S045072)
What’s in the Box
- Epson Stylus Photo R2880 Photo Printer
- Photo Black UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096120)
- Cyan UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096220)
- Vivid Magenta UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096320)
- Yellow UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096420)
- Light Cyan UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096520)
- Vivid Light Magenta UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096620)
- Light Black UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096720)
- Matte Black UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096820)
- Light Light Black UltraChrome K3 ink cartridge (T096920)
- CD print tray and software
- Roll paper holder accessory
- USB cable not included
- Single sheet guide
- Printer documentation
- CD-ROM containing printer drivers and software (Windows® and Macintosh®)
This review is from: Epson Stylus R2880 Large Format Photo Printer (C11CA16201) (Office Product)
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?) As a previous owner of an Epson R1800, I expected nothing short of extraordinary with the R2880. The R1800 met every need I had and produced quality prints with absolutely no hassles. Does the R2880 live up to the same standard?
The R2880 is not a direct upgrade from R1800 (which was replaced with the R1900), so I will not compare the two in every aspect. However, as an amateur photographer I have gotten used to the prints that the R1800 produced. The R2880 is a very large printer and you should plan to have some workspace set aside for it. The footprint is about the same as the R1800. When fully expanded with the paper trays you will need almost an entire table for this printer.
I have tested the printer with various print sizes (4x6, 5x7, 8x10, up to 13x19). Thus far, every print has been clean and crisp. The colors are well saturated and the tones are dead on. I enjoyed the gloss option that was on the R1800, but it's not a deal breaker. The colors were vibrant, but also impressive was the black and white prints. The detail and tones were amazing. I prefer the Epson Premium Luster Paper for most of my prints and the R2880 does an excellent job on that paper. I was truly impressed.
The speed of prints was on par with similar models. I have not timed them, but it does have decent printing speed. By simple comparison, it might be a tick slower than my previous R1800. But again, I did not time them.
The features that are included with the R2880 work out fairly well. I tend not to use the roll mechanism, but it is included. The CD printing tray works perfectly. I do wish they would include an ethernet connection on these models though. For this price range, I think it should be a default feature. USB works fine, but in this day and time an ethernet connection for any printer over $600 (or even $300 for that matter) should be assumed in my opinion.
My complaints are fairly minor, but only time will tell if they get worse. First, is the price of the ink. The R2880 uses a smaller cartridge than my previous printers, yet, the price per cartridge remains the same. I realize the ink itself is different (and to their credit, seems to do a great job), but at my current rate this printer will likely cost me almost twice as much to operate. I'd recommend shopping around, as I've seen almost a 35% difference in cartridge price at different stores. No matter what you do, be sure to keep extra ink cartridges around. The size of these cartridges relegates their printing capacity in a major way. After my initial test prints, my ink levels were showing about 50%.
My second complaint is somewhat related to ink. There are times during the start of a print job (my printer is already on, but I haven't used it in days) that it will take almost a minute to begin printing. It appears that it is going through a cleaning or preparation procedure (usually done only when you turn the printer on or off). I'm not sure if any ink is being used, but my major complaint is the time. I should not have to wait for a simple word processing document to print out.
My third and final complaint is the fact that I have to swap out the photo and matte black ink cartridges. I'm not entirely sure why Epson chose to do this, but I was really disappointed. This is an expensive printer and outperforms its competition in so many ways, but they couldn't include a slot for both cartridges? Seems strange.
At the end of the day, I do highly recommend the R2880. The prints are fantastic! While the printer does have some pitfalls, it does do one thing very well: create outstanding photo prints. I would hesitate recommending that a person upgrade from an Epson R1800, R1900, R2400 or similar model. It would be difficult to justify the costs. However, if you are in a market for a new large format photo printer, this should be one of your choices.
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