New Epson Printer is Announced

Earlier today Epson announced its latest printer to hit the professional market, the SureColor P800 17-Inch Wide Professional Printer. This printer will realize your digital image with printhead technology that takes advantage of an all new eight-color pigment ink set. This is a serious printer for the professional photographer capable of printing dynamic photo, fine art, and on canvas media with gallery quality printing designed to last.

This printer, with a maximum of 17″ wide printing ability, utilizes the unique Epson MicroPiezo® AMC® print head, along with our latest Epson UltraChrome® HD eight-color pigment ink set . This new printer can expertly convert your digital image to your selected print medium.

You can expect to see the Epson SureColor P800 17-Inch Wide Professional Printer start shipping in June 2015.

Here are some detailed specs from the Epson website: Please follow the link for the full details on this new printer.

Base Printing Technology

MicroPiezo AMC Print Head
8-channel, drop-on-demand, inkjet printhead
Epson UltraChrome® HD ink
Professional-level pigment-based ink technology
9 Cartridges (Photo Black, Matte Black, Light Black, Light Light Black, Cyan, Light Cyan, Vivid Magenta, Vivid Light Magenta, Yellow)

 

Print Permanence

UltraChrome HD Pigment inks can provide up to twice the Wilhlem Imaging Reasearch Inc., Display Permanence Rating of previous generations of Epson UltraChrome Inks with most Epson photo and fine art papers. Testing still in underway.Wilhelm Imaging Research

 

Printer Interfaces & Language

One Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port

One Ethernet port (10/100Base-T)

Wireless n(*), Wi-Fi Direct(*)

Apple AirPrint and Google Cloud Print support