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| Epson R1900 Large Format Photo Printer | 
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| Brand: Epson
Category: CE
List Price: $549.00
Buy New: $495.00
You Save: $54.00 (10%)
New (52) from $495.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
System Memory: 0.064
Modem: None
Shipping Weight (lbs): 29
Dimensions (in): 30 x 12 x 14
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"
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: R1900
Model: R1900
UPC: 010343866058
EAN: 0010343866058
ASIN: B0011G47PQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Get superior glossy prints with Epson UltraChrome Hi-Gloss 2 pigment ink | | • | Print photos with greater vibrancy and better facial tones with Epsons 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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Product Description
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 Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 Second Thoughts October 6, 2008
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.
 Epson Delivers October 3, 2008
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.
 Quite simply, not worth it. October 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
Great Printer - When It's Working... September 29, 2008
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.
Excellent print quality, just a couple of things missing September 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'll start off by saying I'm not a graphic designer, or photography expert, and lack the tools and knowledge to use the tools if I had them. This review will be from the point of view of a casual user with some experience printing photographs, but who usually has them developed at Walmart. I mention that to give a reference to any quality judgments I make. Now off to the review.
What's in the box: Printer, Power Cord, Ink Cartridges, Tray for printing on CD/DVD's, Documentation, Drivers, Paper Roll holder, and a paper guide. What's not in the box? A USB cable. While I know that is standard practice on lower end printers, I expected one on a printer in this range. So order one when you buy the printer if you don't have it. The ink cartridges are pretty tiny as well, you may want to order extras immediately.
I downloaded the drivers from Epson to ensure I had the latest. One thing to note is, that the printer is referred to as the "Epson Stylus Photo R1900" on their site, you'll need to know that to find the download page. The download process is fast and easy, their site is organized fairly well, although I would have liked a support/download link right off of the product page.
Setup was easy, if you've setup other printers this one isn't much different, other than the 8 ink cartridges. The printer is big, so measure your space before ordering it... The software installation was painless on Windows XP. The printer does not have a network jack, which is disappointing, so you will need to connect via USB. Also, there is no card reader if that is important to you.
The manual is easy to follow, with diagrams, so using the printer wasn't difficult.
Now on to the printing. I used the included Epson software to print several digital photos. The speed is generally on par with the lower end devices I use when printing 8x10 and 4x6 photos (unless using the best quality, which as expected is slower). I didn't have the Epson premium papers available, so I used Great White for the larger pictures, and low end HP stock for the smaller. Print quality was excellent, much better than the low end printers I normally use. They were certainly on par with, and in some cases better than pictures developed at Walmart. The Epson printer software made it easy to tweak settings for the photos, there may be a bit of a learning curve with some of the terms.
Overall I'm very pleased with the quality. I do have concerns about cleaning the print heads, as I do not print frequently. I would have liked to see bigger ink cartridges, a USB cable included, and a network port.
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