This printer replaces an older model wide format the 1280, which I was very please with. This printer handles lots of aerial imagery producing high quality images quickly. I can send loads of files to the memory for printing at one time. This is my third wide format from Epson to replace an older model. I am a heavy print user and I find I get about 5 years of life out of my Epson printers.
I have used this printer for almost two years now and the quality of prints is the best I hve ever had. The one big draw back to this printer is the outrageous cost of ink. If it wasnt for the fact that I do custom work I would never use this printer as you can go and get prints done for less money than the cost of ink to print them. Epson needs to reduce their ink costs or they are going to find themselves with less and less business. Now my printer wont feed paper any more. Only made about 1,000 4 x 6 prints on it. Going to see what the cost of repair will be.
Using epson premium glossy paper and setting gamma at 2.2 in the advanced setting and letting the printer manage the color in Qimage .It gives a better quality than any lab I have tried.Consistent output never a dull or dark print.Wish ink tanks were bigger and less expensive.
The print quality is very good and the text/image comes out very clear. However, I had an issue with the DVD tray. It would not go in the slot. I tried to force it in, to no avail. I was about to return the printer due to this reason, for that was the main reason I bought the printer, to print DVDs. Luckily, I discovered that the DVD tray goes in if you slide it in by raising the back, and then pushing forward. If you try to slide it in straight, it stops and won't go through. naturally, this is a problem because I wasn't able to print DVDs. I have bought Epson products in the past, and have been very satisfied, which is why I bought the Epson Stylus Photo 1400. I had an Epson R300 printer which worked very well, until lines started to appear when I printed text. And so, I bought this one. I thought that Epson should be informed that there is a problem when inserting the printer DVD tray. Thank you.
A single paper jam with 20# paper caused a hardware problem that will cost more to repair than the replacement cost. Until that time it had operated flawlessly for 1.5 years and had produced excellent photo prints. Particularly liked the ability to print 12x36 panoramas. My recommendation: use it with photo papers - forget about using it for office grade letter size printing.
I bought this for its large format printing ability. It does a terrific job with color prints. It does an ok job of printing black and white, the contrast gets a bit muddled and shadow detail is lost too quickly.
The CD printing function is cumbersome at best. Even with updating driver information it at times gives error messages regarding wrong media even though the CD carrier is properly loaded. Fortunately that is not a primary task that I bought this printer for.