Epson SureColor P400
Whilst multi function or All-in-one printers are popular for the home user, they are not always the best choice for photo prints. For the eager professional digital photographer that desires the best feasible picture quality, a solitary function printer should be the front runner. Epson is creating top quality picture printers for 15 years and have simply included the SureColor SC-P400 A3+, solitary function printer, to their profile.
The SureColor SC-P400 uses 7 colour Epson UltraChrome HiGloss 2 pigment inks, and an improved gloss optimiser. Pigment inks ensure that prints will have greater light fastness compared to color centered inks. The 7 inks include; Picture Black, Cyan, Magenta , Red, Matte Black, Orange and Gloss Optimiser. Each cartridge includes 14.0 ml of ink. The printer prints on media dimensions from 3.5″ x 5″ up to A3+ plus CD/DVD Tags and 13 inch wide roll media. There’s also a back packing art media paper course for thicker specialized media up to 1.3mm thick. On impressions this may be the ideal printer for the lover, so let’s put the SC-P400 to the test.
Installation
Establishing the Epson SureColor SC-P400 is simple, simply follow the illustrated fast begin guide. Connect in the power line and transform the printer on, after that install the ink cartridges.
The SC-P400 is provided with a set of guide inks, these are used to prime the publish
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and should just be used the very first time you use the printer, they can’t be used at a later on day or once the printer is keyed. The provided beginner set of inks are not a real indicator of how many prints can be obtained from a typical set of ink cartridges. Tremble each cartridge before fitting, this ensures that the hefty pigment ink bits are distributed.
Each ink port is colour coded and each cartridge has its own moulding so there’s no chance of unintentionally fitting it in the incorrect port. The initialization process takes about 4 mins. Once done you can install the printer driver and software and connect the printer via USB or Ethernet when triggered. The packed software consists of Epson Publish CD and Epson Easy Picture publish, you have the option to select the items you want installed. The USB 2.0, Ethernet factors and power link lie behind the printer.
Features
The Epson SureColor SC-P400 features include; auto feeder for media dimensions from 3.5″ x 5″ through to Very B (A3+) 13″ x 19″, roll paper publishing on 13″ size rolls with a 2 inch core. A back manual feed guide is also provided for solitary sheets of art paper. A front manual feed tray provides a straight paper course for media up to 1.3mm thick. CD/DVD tag publishing is feasible with the consisted of tray. Connection is via High Speed USB 2.0 port or Ethernet, as well as Wi-Fi Direct. Wi-fi enables you to transmit pictures straight from a Wi-Fi allowed video cam or mobile phone, this is sustained by Epson’s free iPrint Application. Although Wi-Fi comes in handy for fast pictures, most photo-graphers will no question want to publish from their PC using a picture modifying application.
The top packing media tray stands up to 30 sheets of picture quality paper or 120 sheets of ordinary paper. This is a 3 area telescopic gravity feeder tray with 2 rubberised holds to avoid paper slippage, when using large A3 media. When broke down it also forms the top cover to prevent dirt and various other objects dropping right into the works. A smooth activity paper guide is used the maintain the paper from skewing, media dimension markings are etched to the back.
Also at the back there are ports for connecting both provided roll media owners. This enables you to publish on 13″ wide roll media, ideal for publishing panoramic pictures or banners. From previous experience, I have found it hard to uncurl this media, particularly with prints that are made from close to completion of the roll, this is because of the limited crinkle of the paper, however, installing the prints into board remedies the problem. A 3 area media catcher goes to the front of the printer, this also folds up away to form the front cover.
The Epson SureColor SC-P400 has a publishing resolution of 5760 x 1440 dpi. There are 3 quality setups to selected from within the Printer Properties; Speed, Quality and Quality options that include – SuperPhoto, SuperFine and Fine. For our test prints we used the Quality setting.
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