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Comment on The Printerville review: Epson’s Stylus Photo R2880 by Galaxies

Galaxies — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:22:29 +0000

as pictbridge printer, could this also print text docs from mem card to printer? or just photos from pictbridge?

Comment on Epson Stylus Photo R1900 review by Rick LePage

Rick LePage — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:50:40 +0000

I’ve printed a bunch of VFA with the rear feeder and Leopard; I have no idea what Epson’s tech is talking about.

You need to choose “Manual - Roll” in the Page Setup dialog to be able to print on Velvet Fine Art. That (and the “Manual - Roll (Borderless)”) options are the only ones that will let you select VFA.

As I noted in the review, I was pretty impressed at how well the R1900 did on the fine art papers. For a device largely billed as a glossy printer, it prints very well on matte papers.

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Comment on Epson Stylus Photo R1900 review by Dick

Dick — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:13:08 +0000

R1900- Single sheet feeder ad Fine Art Paper

I purchased an R1900 - I am using it with a Mac - OS 10.5.5 Leopard - and Photoshop CS3.

When I use the single sheet feeder (attached to the rear) - the Fine Art paper choices are grayed out under page setup when printing. After 2 hours on the phone with Epson (not toll-free) the tech said it was a glitch in the R1900 Mac driver.

Has anyone printed on Velvet Fine Art paper with an R1900 under Mac’s Leopard )10.5) ?

Comment on The Printerville review: Epson’s Stylus Photo R2880 by Rick LePage

Rick LePage — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:13:49 +0000

I haven’t tried canvas, but I’m heading by the store early next week. I’ll pick some up and give it a go. That will be a good test for the roll feeder as well.

Comment on The Printerville review: Epson’s Stylus Photo R2880 by Brandy Faling

Brandy Faling — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:25:55 +0000

Have you reviewed the R2880’s printing on canvas? I’ve been using my old 2200 for this (still works great) but would like to upgrade. Not all of the new Epson printers support canvas (sheets and/or rolls), and I believe this does. Can you confirm that? And, if so, have you seen the quality? Thank you.

Comment on Epson Stylus Photo R1900 review by Rick LePage

Rick LePage — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:13:54 +0000

It works nicely with my Macs and PCs, and I haven’t seen much negative traffic on the Web about issues with one platform over another. (Brother has been pretty good about interoperability for a few years now.)

Comment on Epson Stylus Photo R1900 review by boonedm

boonedm — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:57:55 +0000

Thanks, Rick, much appreciated. As for that Brother, is it happy to work with both Mac and PC equally well? [i.e. will little Brother play nicely with others? ]
OK, now I’ll leave you alone!

Comment on Epson Stylus Photo R1900 review by Rick LePage

Rick LePage — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:28:08 +0000

I generally recommend an inexpensive monochrome laser printer for people who want photos and text, and plan to print a fair amount of both. The economics of laser, especially for black-and-white printing, are so much better than inkjet.

And, given the small sizes of many personal lasers these days, they’re easy to deal with when you’ve got a lot of other equipment kicking around.

I have the Brother HL-2140, which is about $107 at Amazon, and I’ve also seen good reports on the wireless model, the 2170W, which is about $140 on Amazon.

There are a few lasers that are under $100, but I generally stay away from the really low-cost stuff: you usually end up paying more one way or another.

Comment on Epson Stylus Photo R1900 review by D. Boone

D. Boone — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:47:14 +0000

oops…I should add that I currently have an (old) HP that has the pet peeve of only accepting paper as a manual feed, single page at a time, which is dastardly annoying if there are 300+ pages to print(so speed is a concern, as is anti-jamming). Is this an HP problem or simply an old printer problem of parts wearing out? I do remember it being rather finicky feeding in its younger years, too. It’s something I definitely want to avoid in the future. Thanks, sorry for the extra long PostScript…just tired of pulling my hair out! DB again