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By O. Pinnock
Until now I've always sent my enlargements off to be printed. I had the Epson Picturemate for small stuff but even that was ridiculously expensive when you consider the £20 a time consumable costs. In the last few years I've taken my photography quite seriously and outsourcing enlargements upto A3 was becoming cost prohibitive so I took the plunge and bought the R2880 and I'm so glad I did!
Yes, the same niggles that people have reported still exist - the rear manual feed is a bit picky, it is massive and does indeed eat into desktop real estate - but I can live with those things. I am much more concerned with the output and it doesn't disappoint in any way. Printing on 310gsm fine art paper resulted in beautiful warm colours and 280gsm Satin gave me the soft sharp sheen for portraits. As for colour management, well I have a calibrated monitor and use Photoshop to decide on what colour information is sent to the printer, I was able to create output that was near as damn it the same as the screen using only Epson standard profiles.
Epson Ink is expensive for a full set, but if you are printing less that 6 A4 a week you probably won't find any benefit in overall costs by jumping to a CIS system. However if you are regularly doing enlargements and working with various media then a CIS system is probably the way forward.
Printing is still perhaps a bit of a dark art, but if you do your research into how ICC profiles affect the way and the amount of ink that is put onto the page (even if you don't fully understand it), you should have no problem in creating beautiful output.
Overall I can't fault what epson have created for the money, a gallery quality printer at an affordable price. I'd happily recommend this printer.
By lawrence_of_london (London, England)
This printer is capable of great results but you have to jump through many hoops to get them. There are many irritating little quirks and two of the most annoying are the temperamental paper feed, which randomly jams far too often, and the fact that changing the two black cartridges doesn't always work because the printer sometimes fails to recognise which cartridge has been inserted. Also, it just guzzles ink the whole time as it runs through seemingly endless cleaning cycles. Yes, you can get great results but don't expect the process to be painless.
By B. R. Gaudion (Guernsey UK)
I have had the Epson r2880 printer for only a few days and have printed many prints both with the original Epson cartridges and also a Lyson continuous ink system which I have since purchased and installed, and I can say that the pictures I get are really outstanding, especially the black and whites. In fact I am so impressed with the black and white prints, I am going through my best photos and converting many of them. As I said I am using the Lyson CIS system and printing unto Fotospeed lustre paper. Brilliant.
By Frank WILLIAMS (Ireland)
Been using this printer now for 18 months and have never regretted buying it. I have been through the range of media - gloss, lustre, matt, canvas, DVD, cards, single sided and double-sided matt paper and lustre paper - and the only issue I had to resolve was to ensure that I was not changing inks for a one-off print - wasteful and time-consuming but manageable.
Cut sheet paper has never been a problem but I have reservations about the printers ability to cope with canvas, particularly roll canvas; it is extremely fussy about straight edges. If you are producing canvases on a regular basis give serious consideration to going up a model or two to ensure robust operations and to extend the range of sizes you can produce. A 13 inch wide roll will limit the one side to a maximum of 8 inches using gallery bars and 10 inches with standard bars.
The pigment inks result in excellent colour reproduction, although I did invest in a Spyder to ensure that I was getting the best from the printer. Don't limit myself to Epson media - there are equally good, sometimes better and generally cheaper, products available from other manufacturers but be prepared to invest some learning time in colour management and ICC profiles if you are thinking of using other manufacturers.
Would I buy again? 2880 no! Epson yes; I have bought a Pro 4880.
By M. J. Cain (UK)
A lovely made machine which feels and handles great, the installation is really straight forward and the software is a breeze to install. The R2880 is really quiet in operation and the print speed is ok, how quick do you need it really .. ?
I had high hopes for the print quality of the R2880 but I was let down big time, as one other review said the ink sits on top of the paper and does not really penetrate into the paper, this gives the prints a really dull look and a cheap looking image. The colours are spot on but the prints really do lack quality as far as I'm concerned, I would not want to display the R2880 prints on my own living room wall let alone a gallery, so so disappointed.
Saying that the B/W images are quite amazing, I don't think I've seen anything so good on a machine of this price 10 out of 10 for that but the colour prints for me are cheap and lifeless, My HP 6 colour machine is miles better on colour.
A very over priced machine for the print quality..
A big shame..
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