Comments on: Epson Stylus Photo R1900 review

By: alex

alex — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:30:49 +0000

Great help here! Thanks Rick!
hope you can help me too.
I’ve got a very strange problem with my 1900. Since my first test print i get a very stange mark (about 1.5cm wide and 6cm long) in the top left corner of every print. it’s always in the same place of the paper, not the printer. So weather i print on A6 or A3+ it’s the same.
I thought it was a mechanical and tried feeding the paper through the roll feeder, which actually got rid of it, but isn’t good for small prints. besides i want my printer to work properly. It’s brand new.
I usually use Fuji Hunt Satin, but tried other semigloss papers too. I print from CS3 on an i Mac running OSX 10.4.11. I also tried printing from other software to rule PS out as a reason. Same problem.
The last thing I just tried was using original epson paper. Just had heavyweight matte so set the printer profile(before printing in PS) to epson matte heavyweight and what a surprise, I get the same line going vertically now!
Just leaves me with the conclusion, that it must be a software issue.
To double check I printed on the old semigloss paper, using the matte profile and ended up with the same effect as on the matte paper (well almost the same, it’s not as visable…)
Basicially I’m lost!
Oh and to make the whole thing even more peculiar: I took the printer back to the shop and had it replaced, just to get the same thing with the new one!

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Alex

By: simon wu

simon wu — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:20:09 +0000

do you have epson R1900 printhead , P/N F18600

Thanks, if Y have please give me price!
thanks

By: TadMoore

TadMoore — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:20:54 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for such a succinct review of the printer I have purchased. Haven’t used it yet….was, in fact, doing a little research to assure a successful print 1st time out. Bought it from B&H Photo and the paper that was sent(recommended)is in fact Ilford smooth pearl. Until I find the conversion for this in Epson speak I think I’ll hold off…..thanks again for your informative writing style….resp;T

By: JAC

JAC — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:55:41 +0000

I have an R1800 which has never once given me a satisfactory print with any of the recommended workflows. All too dark and virtually unadjustable even with gamma increases, printer manages, Photoshop manages, etc. So I’m leaning towards the 1900 or 2880. Running 10.6.2, CS3 and/or Aperture. Because of the problems with the 1800, I’m looking at a lot of web comments – some very favourable for either, some not so good, particularly with SL. Seems to be driver problems that have not been resolved. Anyone downloaded the most recent Epson batch of drivers (December ‘09) and having problematic results? Or having no problems for that matter?

By: Blazor

Blazor — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:22:42 +0000

Has anyone found a fix for the Illustrator CS3 issue for the 1900?

By: RBD

RBD — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:37:56 +0000

My R1900 has been fantastic…until last night. I was printing and the “change ink” light came on for my Cyan and Red cartridges…so I changed both and the machine keeps telling me tht the Red cartridge is not installed or not compatible…AAARRGHHH!

Is there a way to do a hard ‘reset” of the machine or override this?

Help Please!

By: enko

enko — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:48:22 +0000

I just purchased an Epson R1900 for my digital photography classroom – with a plan to print on 13×19 Epson Velvet fine art paper. I am using an Intel Mac with Leopard (OS 10.5.5). I downloaded the latest Epson driver for Leopard.

But – there is a problem. If I try to use the rear-mounted single sheet feeder – the media choice for Epson fine art papers is grayed out when printing from photoshop CS3.

After 2 hours on the phone with Epson (for which I had to pay the phone cost) – the tech concluded that there is a “glitch” in the new Leopard driver for the R1900.

Has anyone used the R1900 single sheet rear feeder with Fine Art paper and a Mac running Leopard and Photoshop CS3 ???

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By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:05:38 +0000

My 1270 has finally given up the ghost (bulletproof clog), so I’m looking at the 1900…I like the idea of no-fade prints. However, I have a whole pot full of Epson’s Ultra Premium Luster paper. So…1) will the 1900 give me archival results with this paper? and 2) does the 1900’s included software have a profile for this paper? From my reading of your review it sounds like the quality on even this paper will be first class, no?

Thanks.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:25:43 +0000

Guido, I too just started getting banding after awesome print results. I had not used the printer for a while and my kids seemed to have removed the printer from my pc. I re-installed the software for it. I do not think I re-downloaded the profiles for it. Not sure what is causing the banding either, have not had time to troubleshoot mine.