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Epson R1900 Large Format Photo Printer

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.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Big Photos, Small Price
Epson’s UltraChrome Hi-Gloss 2 pigment ink looks fantastic. It is also durable, with a 200 year lifespan behind glass (according to Epson’s claims). It’s also has a bit smaller footprint than other large format printers. If you’re in the market for a large format photo printer, but do not want to spend an entire paycheck, this may be your printer!

5 Stars Epson R1900 Review
After 4+ years, my still functional Epson 1270 was a candidate for replacement, given technology advances alone. Based on personal experience with Epson printer reliability and customer service, the choice was the R1900. Features influencing the decision were A3+ (13×19) borderless printing capability with Epson’s K3 Ultra Chrome pigment (long print life) inks, expanded paper choices, gloss/matte paper choices without swapping black inks, high resolution, and color brilliance and fidelity.

Installation was quick and easy. The test prints were made using Epson Premium Glossy, Premium Luster, and Presentation Matte papers, using both the “Let Printer Manage Color” and “Let Photoshop Manage Color” (specific paper profiles) settings. Although the supplied Epson “standard” profiles proved totally acceptable, the free Epson downloadable premium profiles are definitely superior and I will use those for all exhibition quality prints.

Test prints were compared to the same images printed on the Epson 1270 (dye ink) and the Epson R2400, a more expensive pigment ink printer with a different ink configuration which facilitates “neutral” (no color cast) black & white fine art printing.

Compared to the Stylus 1270, all R1900 prints had better color depth, clarity, fidelity, and brilliance than the 1270 dye ink prints. Very likely the added “Gloss Optimizer” cartridge of the R1900 contributed to the advantage.

Compared to the R2400, the R1900 color prints were at least equal to the R2400 in most every case. In a few instances the R1900 premium profile gave marginally better results, specifically for skin tones. However, the differences were VERY subtle and could well reflect my own subjective judgment.

With additional black ink cartridges and an “Advanced B/W” print mode, the R2400 has an edge for the photographer requiring high volumes of exhibition quality B/W prints. However, the R1900 can deliver acceptably neutral B/W prints (especially using the Epson premium profiles). Toned monochrome prints appeared to be dead even between the two printers. I was delighted to discover that the 5% opacity “slightly brown” toning which I sometimes add for B/W print “richness” also enhanced the neutrality of the R1900 B/W prints.

For all photographers not needing to print larger than 13×19, or those not requiring large numbers of exhibition B/W prints, I would recommend the R1900 as an excellent choice for a mid-priced photo quality printer.

4 Stars A good printer
This is a fantastic photographic printer. It does the job right, it does the job well.

Observation #1:

Basic Printing (non-phot paper), (and I may be particularly naive by not already knowing this, but the very first thing i tried to do with this was print some basic color prints on plain paper (admitley not great paper either). I sell color copies of some documents/instructions I create and I normally go to officeMax etc. Well this printer is set up for photo paper and it puts that nice coat on the entire page even the part that doesn’t have any color printed onto it. It prints out super dull if you aren’t on photo paper and I really felt like I was wasting the clear coating anytime I did a normal plain old print. There may be a way to turn that coating off or to tell it you aren’t printing on photo paper and to just print normally and adjust the colors but I have not investigated further.

Observation #2:

Paper Cost. I ran out to target to buy a pack of 4×6 photo paper and wow was I shocked by the price, Their largest pack still could not break the .15 cent price barrier. I can get prints from target for .15 and they are pretty good prints compared to other places and even online sources. So if you want to print a lot of 4×6, then you need to go to officeMax or a store that sells the photo paper in bulk so you can beat the cost of Target.

So in turn, this printer is meant for Photo’s, not for crappy paper color prints from web pages or PDF’s!

4 Stars Epson R1900 & Continuous Ink System CIS
I have owned the R1800, and I was very satisfied with the result. I got an R1900, and it is fantastic with color pictures. It took me a while to get all the settings right, but once I got them dialed in, Wowow! I’ve not tried it on black and white, but Epson says that if you are considering black and white, the R2880 is the way to go. The only problem I have is the cartridge size, it runs out of ink so much faster than my old R1800. I am now using a continuous ink system from inkrepublic. To be honest, you need to stick to a commercially known supplier that sells ink thats quality. InkRepublic.com is by far the most known CIS supplier on my online forum and they have awesome prices, and most people in my forum (over 80,000 users) run business only succesful by the color of their products, and take it very seriously.

Martin Weigel also has a very useful review of Epson R1900 and its CIS online

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Bottom line is, R1900 is a very decent printer and glad there is a good & reliable CIS for it.

4 Stars Excellent color prints
I replaced my r1800 with this, and the last thing I did with the 1800 was printout a color and a black and white photo to kodak pro inkjet lustre paper. I then printed them again with the same settings on the R1900. For the color prints, there was a small difference, true to the marketing the skin tones are better, but it not something that jumps out at you unless you are comparing the 2 prints side by side. However the Black and White prints on the R1900 are way more neutral than on the r1800 and this is great improvement. My only gripe is that the print head goes over its own wiring harness, which while flexible, I would like to see secured out of the way so that it didn’t suffer so much flexing.

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