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Date of last review
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Wed May 25, 2011
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Average Price
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Average Rating
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100% of reviewers
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£587.14
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10.0
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Description:
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Achieve outstanding A3+ prints with the Epson Stylus Photo R3000, which offers complete image control and wide media compatibility.
Compact A3+ printer
With high capacity inks ideal for medium print runs and a small footprint, this A3+ printer makes
Key Benefits
Prints up to A3+
Professional-quality output
Fine art paper feed
Front-loading for easy insertion
High-capacity inks
Optimised cost per page
Wide connectivity
USB, Wi-Fi and Ethernet
Automatic switching
Photo and matte black inks
Front-loading fine art paper feed
Easily insert fine art media with less risk of damage thanks to the front-loading fine art paper feed, which removes the need for space behind the printer.
Convenient high-capacity inks
Complete medium print runs and optimise your cost per page with the convenient 25.9ml high-capacity ink cartridges.
Colour LCD
View media instructions and check ink levels quickly and easily with the 2.5-inch colour LCD.
Consistent, true-to-life prints
Enjoy an improved grey balance without colour casts and a smoother, more natural-looking tonal range thanks to Epson's UltraChrome K3 Ink with Vivid Magenta and three densities of black ink. Either a standard photo or matte black is employed and switched automatically to suit the media used and, along with light black and light light black, creates true black and white images.
Choice of grey tones
Choose your own black and white tonality, from warm to neutral or cool, and customise to suit your own tastes - then easily save your settings in the print driver.
Easy-to-use print driver
Take complete control of your images with the R3000's print driver, which is incredibly easy to use. It helps you improve productivity, customise media settings and use the supplied ICC profiling to get the right output for your style.
Wide media compatibility
Print on a wide variety of media, from roll and cut-sheet fine art paper to board up to 1.3mm thick.
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Keywords:
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Epson R3000 Photo A3
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Author
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chwright3
New here
Registered: April 2011
Location: Brighton
Posts: 4
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Review Date: Wed May 25, 2011
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: £587.14
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Pros:
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Exceptionally high quality prints, ease of setting up
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Cons:
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Price of the ink - £200 per set of cartridges. Said to print 70+A3 prints
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I considered this printer and the Canon PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Inkjet Printer, almost identically priced. In the end, a search on Google for + Apple Mac, tipped the balance towards the Epson. There were no reported problems with print drivers!
The printer is large, as you would expect, and pleasingly heavy (approx 35lb). Very simple to set up and quiet in operation. The quality of the prints is excellent and printing direct from Aperture 3 produced a print that seemed almost imperceptibly darker than the one printed using the Epson Print program.
I've read that the supplied UltraChrome K3 cartridges will print 70+ A3 prints - they cost approx £200 to renew so that works out at £2.87 a print. I can't validate that yet. The R3000 supports a higher resolution than the 3880 (5,760x1,440dpi, versus 2,880x1,440dpi).
Apple Mac users will be pleased to know that the printers wireless support is for 802.11n, the standard that is supported by the Apple Airport routers. I've had problems in the past with HP printers dropping the connection with these routers. No problems of that kind so far. However, owners of wireless routers supporting only 802.11a, 802,11b, or 802.11g will be disappointed. These standards are not supported. Ethernet connections are supported.
In summary, this is a printer that is capable of providing prints of a high enough quality to exhibit. It has a relatively (to the Canon) small footprint and unlike the Canon will print on roll paper as well as CD's and A4, A3 size photographic paper. The printer drivers work fine on Mac and it is easy to set up. The real clincher for me is the quality of the black and white prints. While the colour printing is everything you would expect from a printer at this pricepoint, the monochrome prints are outstanding.
I bought mine from eTradeComputers, a Cheshire based company on EBay. They offered the best price (£113 less than rrp) and free delivery. Ordered on Sunday, arrived by courier on Tuesday.
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