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1. Epson stylus photo r2880 updates for mac manual#
2. Epson stylus photo r2880 updates for mac full#
3. Epson stylus photo r2880 updates for mac Pc#
4. Epson stylus photo r2880 updates for mac professional#

Print quality from Epson’s eight-ink, UltraChrome K3 system is very impressive.

The Epson is therefore noticeably slower than the Canon, but neither is sluggish when printing photos.

Increasing the print size to A4, the printer still managed to complete the print in one minute, 59 seconds and going right up to A3+ (the largest paper size it can handle), it took four minutes, 13 seconds.įor comparison, the Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mk II completed a 15 x 10cm print in one minute, 14 seconds and an A3, not A3+, print in one minute, 53 seconds.

Epson stylus photo r2880 updates for mac Pc#

These are both pretty slow.Ī 15 x 10cm photo print from a PC in high-quality mode took one minute, 45 seconds, which is more respectable and in normal print mode, printing from a PictBridge camera, the Stylus Photo R2880 took one minute, which is quick. Printing our five-page black text document took two minutes, 17 seconds and the black text and colour graphics took two minutes, 45 seconds, giving real-world print speeds of 2.2ppm and a 1.8ppm, respectively. Epson doesn’t even quote print speeds for black or colour plain paper print.

Epson stylus photo r2880 updates for mac professional#

This printer is intended primarily for printing photos at the semi-professional and even professional levels, so plain paper print is very definitely a secondary function. You don’t need a special holder for the cartridge, as there’s a valve within it to stop it drying out. You can swap black inks whenever you want, though the printer does waste some ink, through cleaning, on each change. The matte ink is designed to give the best black text print on plain paper, while the photo black is the better bet when printing colour or black and white photos.

Epson stylus photo r2880 updates for mac full#

Also available are one of two, full black inks, described as matte and photo black. Magenta and light magenta inks are described as ‘vivid’ and can intensify flesh tones and a range of other shades. There are also two greys – or as Epson quaintly calls then, light black and light, light black – designed to improve the quality of greyscale prints. There are eight cartridges to plug into the head on this printer, with the standard cyan, magenta and yellow supplemented by light cyan and light magenta. Should the printer receive data through both ports at the same time it handles the queuing, so you won’t lose print jobs because of this feature. There’s a PictBridge socket at the bottom of the front panel and, uniquely in our experience, twin USB sockets at the rear, so both a PC and Mac can be connected simultaneously. Epson supplies a CD/DVD carrier, too, for direct printing on coated discs.

Epson stylus photo r2880 updates for mac manual#

Paper can also be fed from the rear feed tray or from front or rear manual trays, where the paper path is flat. One of the buttons is for feeding paper from a roll – roll holders are provided as standard. The control panel is simple, with four buttons and three indicators. With all its trays open, it’s 415mm deep, so you’ll need a fair sized desk, but if you only occasionally print on large sheets, you can keep the three-stage telescopic feed and output trays partly closed and still print. This is an A3+ printer and given the maximum paper width of 13-inch, it’s not an unduly wide machine. It uses a mammoth eight colours, including a ‘vivid’ magenta, two grey inks and a choice of blacks, making it ideal semi-professional and professional photo printing. If you don’t believe us, witness the Epson Stylus Photo R2880 and its new UltraChrome K3 ink system. If the numbers of ink colours manufacturers build into their high-end photo printers goes on increasing, there’ll be one for every conceivable colour before long.