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January 14, 2008

Epson Stylus Photo R1900 photo printer

The Stylus Photo R1900 is a £369 inc VAT B-size (13in by 19in) desktop printer with pigment-based inks, advanced paper-handling capabilities and productivity features aimed at serious amateurs and professional photographers.

Unlike the pricier Stylus Photo R2400, which is best known for its black-and-white printing capabilities (and its voracious appetite for ink), the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 is designed primarily to produce optimal colour prints.

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In place of the R2400's light black and light light black inks, the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 has a gloss optimiser cartridge that sprays a clear overcoat on top of glossy media, producing a "superglossy" print that lacks the bronzing or dullness found in glossy prints made with most pigment-based printers.

The Epson Stylus Photo R1900 uses a reformulated inkset, called UltraChrome Hi-Gloss 2, consisting of eight individual inks: the gloss optimiser, matte and photo black, and cyan, magenta, yellow, red and orange.

Epson claims that the orange ink, which replaces blue in the original Hi-Gloss inks, increases the printer's overall gamut and provides improved flesh tones, while the new formulations of magenta and yellow inks improve the blues and greens, respectively, in most prints.

In conjunction with the new inks, the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 incorporates a new colour-imaging technology, Radiance, co-developed by Epson and the Rochester Institute of Technology's Munsell colour Science Lab. According to Epson, Radiance provides an advanced colour gamut; better ink efficiency; reduced grain; and minimised metameric failure, which results in "improved colour constancy under different lighting conditions".

In a nod to HP Epson also says that the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 will be colour-calibrated at the factory, a process that will produce consistent colour from unit to unit. (This has been something that Epson has long done during the manufacturing process for its Stylus Pro printers.)

The Epson Stylus Photo R1900 will also come with a set of ICC profiles for most Epson media types, including glossy, matte, and fine art papers and canvas.

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The 2 most helpful reviews based on 23 reviews:

15 Jan 2008 Guy, Plymouth

9

Good Points

Very good build quality especially compared to the R1800 and R2400, great looks and print quality. I havent been able to fully use it yet and still some aspects i havent worked out yet. but overall im very happy with it.

Bad Points

One issue I do have is that out of the 8 cartridges in the r1800 and r2400 2 are blue (cyan and blue) but in the 1900 the blue has been replaced by an orange for better skin tones but most of what i print is seascapes and landscapes which include alot of blue, and already my cyan cartridge is dropping twice as fast as any other cartridge

14 Jul 2008 Rick, Dorset

9

Good Points

Looks good, robust, appears to be a fairly good workhorse, prints out professional standard prints with good all round tones and colour temperatures. I like the fact that I can use sheet paper, rolls and even canvas (although not tried canvas, as yet). It is well priced for printing out up to A3+

Bad Points

The software for printing doesn't seem to be too flexible when wanting to position an image or multiple independent images of different sizes on a single sheet of paper, this might be my lack of training or knowledge... but then again if I haven't found it yet then it's not very intuitive or easy to navigate around. I'm usually very good and getting around pieces of software. The ink cartridges are quite small and seem to run out very quickly, so I tend not to use this printer for general printing only professional standard final images.

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