Epson SureColor P900 17-Inch Printer

As an independent artist and business owner, getting my own printer was a huge goal of mine, and I'm so glad I took the plunge! The printer is a game-changer for me; I can now produce my own fine art prints in any size up to 16x20". I primarily print on 8x10", 11x14" and 12x16" matte fine art paper, using Premium Matte paper by Durico or Finestra Art. The first printer I ordered did not work, but I called Epson and they immediately sent me a new printer and set up an exchange. I've been printing on my new printer for 3 months, and here is a summary of my experience: The Upsides: -Quick and easy wireless communication with my laptop -Great customer service from Epson -The printer yields gorgeous, rich, and vibrant colors; high color accuracy -Each print takes just a few minutes to create -The Epson Print Layout program is straightforward and easy to use. I open this up every time I want to print something. Once I've selected the size and type of paper, I let the printer choose the colors. I find that this produces a better, brighter color quality than the color profiles listed. -Each print is 25-50% the cost of ordering from a fine art printing business -I've ordered ink once in 3 months -Fits perfectly on the alex drawers from Ikea The cons: -Sometimes the printer takes in a few pages at once instead of one at a time. You must keep an eye on it. -For some, the printer might feel slow -If you accidentally shut your laptop, or if your laptop unexpectedly dies, the printer will stop printing midway and you have to start over -Ink costs are high ($522 to replace all cartridges), so you must factor that into your print costs. I calculated my cost of ink per print using ChatGPT -Epson and Amazon ran out of ink recently, so I had to buy my ink from B&H Photo in NYC -The first printer didn't work, which was stressful -The ink isn't quite as vibrant as my the art prints that I used to order from a fine art printer, but it works well enough for me and my customers.

Update 12/9/2024*** I've struggled with this printer for a long time and it finally stopped printing the VLM color cartridge altogether. No amount of head cleanings will fix it either. You can't even print B/W when one of the colors goes out even though it has dedicated B/W inks. I had just replaced 4 of the cartridges at $50 per cartridge and now they will go in the trash as the printer is done. This was a terrible purchase and no way I broke even on it. I would have hoped by now these manufacturers would have figured out the head clogging issues on ink jet printers. Save you money and your hair by skipping ink jet and just send out for prints. The print quality is phenomenal. when it actually prints. You never know when it will decide to print your photo. Some times it will print right through without issue, but most times it will pull the paper in and print about 4 passes then stop. When you are printing on 17x22 papers that cost about $6 a sheet this adds up to a lot of waste, not to mention the ink wasted when the print gets halfway through then stops. This reminds me of the early days of CD burning when blanks were still expensive and you never really knew if the burn would actually complete without buffer underruns. We made a lot of coasters back then and this is what this Epson seems to like to do. I have had many Canon and Epson printers over the years and have never had these kind of issues before. I also noticed that when you do get a print to complete, it is not centered properly on the paper. I notice this most on 17" prints where the margin line drifts more and more as the print gets to the bottom of the page. For $1,300 this printer should be able to properly center a sheet of paper. If Epson could resolve these two issues this would be a great printer, but until then I don't recommend it.

Even though I returned the fist unit for defect the second one has been working great. The unit is not cheap and ink (paint) is very expensive. The results are professional quality. I have printed over 100 large prints so far and several smaller ones. The color and quality of the print is awesome. I have had many compliments from happy customers. One problem that has recurred was only a partial print. I think I trouble shot it down to the printer not wanting to share the wifi with any other device like a tv. As long as they were off I did not seem to have any problems

This is my 2nd Epson SureColor Printer. My previous printer was the P800 which is still working but getting aged. This new P900 is printing beautifully! I have purchased a new set of ink cartridges however I have not started using them yet. If someone says that Epson does not send much ink in the first cartridges, they must not know this printer very well. If the settings are done correctly, the ink will last and give you plenty of great prints before you move on to the next set. There is a learning curve as with any updated printer, but I am very pleased so far.

After being into photography for some time I still considered myself a digital only shooter. From camera to screen it was all about the best presentation on this medium but I reached a point where I wanted something I could give to people and in came prints. Now like many things this is a hobby for me but I wanted something substantial and after some research landed on the 17" size as the largest I could feasibly manage and that narrowed the choices down to this and the cannon. Both are great printers but the Epson had a slight edge for me. What this brings to the table for me is the ability to pint out something and make changes where as sending it off to a print shop it had best be right the first time. On to the downsides. Ink and paper this printer demands the best and devours resources at breakneck speeds. Expect to spend $2-3 per sheet of paper and over $400 for a pack of inks. Only you can decide if this is worth it to you. The prints are amazing and well beyond my expectation. I feel that I have improved as a photographer from this as it pushes me to create more.

Epson seems to have serious quality control issues. Haven't been able to print a single frame because this printer won't complete its setup. I either get error 000024 or 000021 with little rhyme or reason for either. No grinding sounds thankfully, just a bunch of quiet and ineffectual printer sounds. Good luck finding _any_ information on these error codes online - there's simple zero information available. Not that learning issue's cause would do anything to help you. Without access to the menus, all you get a power button and a plug! How would you even begin self-servicing something like that? Once epson technical support is open tomorrow, I suppose I'll have to give them a call to figure out what we're doing with the giant brick of fragile plastic sitting next to me. I imagine I'll have to pack the whole thing up and get it shipped back. Then I get the joy of waiting another printer that has a _surprisingly_ high chance of arriving useless. Or do I just cancel the 400+ dollars I spent on a working set of ink cartridges? (how crappy of a user experience is it that you make your customers load 10 ink cartridges just to waste it in front of their eyes? yikes ... not that I even got to see that fiasco!) Maybe canon ships working printers?

The printer itself is very good. I purchased one recently to replace a much older similar Epson large format printer. The print quality is outstanding and it is easy to set up. One thing to keep in mind is that the printer comes with starter ink cartridges that are 1/4 the normal size. The cost of the normal sized ink cartridges for genuine Epson one is around $48 per cartridge and for 10 cartridges, about $500. You should factor that into your purchase decision. You should also be aware that you can't buy the actual Epson cartridges on Amazon, as Amazon only appears to carry refurbished 3rd party ones, that most likely void the manufacturers warranty if you use them and may not offer the same quality of ink as the real deal. To add insult to injury, you can't get these cartridges from the Epson website either. They have the cartridges for the SureColor P700 but not the P900. You will have to go to another vendor to purchase them and hope they deliver them reasonably quickly. The same is true for the quality photographic paper that Epson makes. Amazon does not carry the 17 * 22 Metallic Luster or Gloss packs and you also can't get them on the Epson site. For those reasons, if I was a first time buyer of a large format color printer, I'd probably look at other options.

This printer works well.

So far so good. Came with everything properly in place. Ink carts are all half full (as expected) but PLENTY of ink to do several prints! Works good so far. Set up was super easy. I am very happy with this purchase. Hopefully this doesn't die within a month.

Exxelente calicad fotografica.

Printer only came with about 1/4 cartridge of ink each. Thought that there would have been a full cartridge each for the initial purchase, considering that there are 10 different colours of ink. And the cost of the printer was not cheap, neither are the replacement full cartridges of ink.