My P600 arrived today! It’s true—the black and white prints do pop—as do the color. I printed both color and black and white on the Epson metallic glossy paper, and it really looks nice. I just finished printing some black and white Velvet Fine Art in both letter and 13 x 19 inch paper. Very nice.
As to loading paper: It’s BETTER! Yea!!!! While there are a few extra steps, these steps are so inconsequential. Once you pop out the front manual loading tray (not a problem to do), I think loading the paper flat and guiding it through is less anxiety ridden than the other process on the R2880—easier to get the alignment right. In the 6 prints I just made, I did get one “paper askew” notification, but that was due to user error. I also set up the wireless printing with AirPrint on my iPad Air. Easy-peasy! I printed a flyer I made using Pages and had saved as a JPEG. I wasn’t expecting the color to be that great—but I was wrong: the color is very true and really pops. I printed it from the Photos app, and I printed it on some premium matte paper. The set-up was a breeze. I was expecting complications, but there were none. I may have mentioned that they painted my office, and I have been doing some serious printing and framing of my work on my office walls. The dedicated color wall is moving along nicely, but I only have two large prints on my dedicated black and white wall. The progress is slower here because a) I’ve been thinking that I want to shoot some new stuff specifically for the B/W wall and b) I knew I was seriously thinking of getting the P600 (provided I got some good PDML reviews, which I did) and wanted to wait for better prints. Well, now that the printer has arrived, I will probably reprint the two prints already on the wall and replace. I really like the quality of the B/W on the Epson Metallic Glossy paper, so I may do more printing with this paper. For Mac users, you have to download all the driver stuff from the Epson web page. Immediately after, I checked for any updates, and those appeared and I updated immediately. When I opened Lightroom (most current version on the iMac (non Creative Cloud)), everything was right were it should be, and I went through all my usual selections. I have the Creative Cloud version of Lightroom, Adobe InDesign et al on my MacBook Pro w/Retina. I haven’t set up the P600 on that yet, but will do soon. The only real problem now is space in my home study. The p600 now sits on the only flat work space I had. This would change if I got rid of the R2880, but I’m not willing to do that—at least for now. More to the point, I’ve been thinking a lot about my so-called creative space: right now it’s just filled with a jumble of stuff. It’s a mess. I may have to take some time to rethink my creative space, so it’s more pleasurable to work in—more efficient. Easier to think about, but much harder to reconfigure! So, I recommend the P600—and I’m looking forward to trying some of the hot & cold press papers. Oh, and I love that I just had to press a button to switch to the matte black cartridge. Gosh, I hated switching out cartridges on the R2880. The actual switching out wasn’t a big deal, but waiting for it to register, so you could choose the appropriate paper was often frustrating. Life is better! Cheers, Christine > On Apr 9, 2017, at 6:07 PM, Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> > wrote: > > Note that there is a Rebate ($150) and a trade-up discount ($50) in effect > 1-30 April 2017… > > E.g., see, > http://atlex.itsuppliesinc.netdna-cdn.com/media/pdf/rebate/TradeUpP400,600,800April2017MIR.pdf > > I recently uncovered and started up my 2880 after a very long period of > inactivity. Had the expected multiple passes to clean the heads, 3-4 inks > needed replacing. But what bugs me is that the paper feed is working very > sporadically. A true pain. Based on this thread, I did a quick google on > P600, found one review that was very positive except for paper feed problems > ( with certain papers). Makes me wonder though if I shouldn’t just struggle > through rather than upgrading. But Godfrey’s note is encouraging... I will be > interested to hear your experience. > > stan > > >> On Apr 7, 2017, at 7:30 PM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: >> >> I think I’m going to order the p600 in the next few days. My R2880 is >> running really wonky. Cheers, Christine >> >> >>> On Mar 20, 2017, at 6:34 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Christine, >>> >>> I've been using the P600 for a year and a half. Highly recommended. The >>> improved paper feed system over the R2400/R2880 is one of the truly great >>> things about it. Compared to the R2400/R2880, it's got better blacks, >>> better brilliance, and just does a better job. >>> >>> I don't recommend trying to refill the ink tanks. You can't get the Epson >>> inks for refilling of the same formulation. I've found this printer to be >>> pretty economical on ink anyway ... the big tanks help, and I think the >>> heads have greater precision in laying it down. >>> >>> I use Velvet Fine Art and Hot Press Natural papers the most, but swap to >>> Photo Black ink for Exhibition Fiber. It does an excellent job with all >>> three. Also with Hahnemühle Bamboo and other fine art papers .... I haven't >>> found any papers that don't work well with it. >>> >>> You can't go wrong with the P600 unless you need the larger paper size of >>> the P800 ... :-) >>> >>> G >>> >>> On Mar 20, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: >>> >>>>>> On 3/19/2017 4:21 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >>>>>> Hi All: >>>>>> >>>>>> Is anyone using the Epson P600? >>>>>> >>>>>> Care to share your thoughts on print quality and user workflows >>>>>> and/or issues? >>>>>> >>>>>> My Epson R2880 is still working, and I have been printing lately, >>>>>> just now in fact, but the rollers aren’t always grabbing on the first >>>>>> try of a print. I often have to try a few times before the rollers >>>>>> agree to grab the paper and run the print. I’m a big Velvet Fine Art >>>>>> user. Love that stuff, but I have to use the back feed, and it’s >>>>>> been fussy lately. >>>>>> >>>>>> I’m definitely considering P600 so that I don’t have to change-out >>>>>> the photo and matte blacks. I see the ink cartridges are much bigger >>>>>> and $32 a pop (listed on the Epson website). Any thoughts about >>>>>> ink? >>>>>> >>>>>> If you have the P600, have you tried it on metallic paper or any >>>>>> other specialty papers? Thoughts? Quality? I have some metallic >>>>>> paper I want to try on the R2880, and may soon, but I’m still >>>>>> interested how it works on the P600. >>>>>> >>>>>> Interested in any and all information you have to share! >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, Christine >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
