Epson SureColor P600 Inkjet Printer

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The one I received shipped and sold by amazon has an active 14 month warranty checked via epson warranty website upon receipt. We printed 150 4x6 photos before it ran out of light magenta. All other colors were over half. Fantastic printer with fantastic prints, I would recommend looking into aftermarket inks though at the $280 price tag for a set. If I had purchased Another light magenta I’m sure we would have printed 300 4x6 photos before it ran completely out. At that price thats $1 a print plus paper on one level below the best quality. Not really all that great. I have used cobrainks for several years with epson printers and the quality of the ink is identical. Same color profile and quality- don’t use anything but epson if you try and cheap out with anything else, you’ll definitely regret it.

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I am a little better than amatuer and probably not quite pro but this printer is a big improvement from a Cannon 9500 pro. I struggled with that printer to match my screen settings all the time . I know that there is alot of talk about how much the Epson printer uses ink but let me tell you the ease of use and the expense of wasted paper far out weighs the cost. I hooked up straight out of the box, prints are beautiful. I just am very impressed. The shipping was no problems and came right on time.

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This printer makes amazing prints. With the 9 inks that are in the printer, you get an awesome idea of how real a picture can look.

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Great printer. Love the color & BW outputs for my presentation albums

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Superb printer, great picture quality, really recommended it

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best image quality by far in its price range. physical & menu design are very intuitive straightforward.

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The best photo printer in its class.

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UPDATE: 5-28-2018 I reached out to live support at Epson and expressed my disappointment and that I believed I should have an exchange. I have been using Epson since I began digital photography in the 1990s, I have spare ink cartridges, many boxes of Epson papers, etc. In the end, Epson sent me an exchange (refurbished) printer overnight delivery. The refurbished printer looks and acts like new. I am happy now with Epson...but have learned to pay attention to expensive purchases from Amazon. (The original printer was supplied by Abes of Main and as it turned out...a European version not fully supported in the US.) I am resetting the Stars to 4 stars...normally I give Epson printers 5 Stars. Very disappointed. First, warranty issue because I purchased via Amazon (shows as an international purchase vs. US store location). I dont understand this, but there it is. I purchased in June 2017, printed beautiful prints up to 13X19. Then as I used up the OEM provided ink, spent hundreds of dollars on full ink cartridges and continued printing. Then I went into a lull and did not print much or at all the past 2-3 months. Print quality deteriorated on my last production run and I ran all the required print head cleaning routines, etc. Epson Support referred me to a service center because 2/9 print heads were clogged and unusable. Service center informed me of the international purchase (via Amazon), no warranty and expect $200+/head plus service to repair if they cannot soak and clean the print heads. Now I have a very expensive paper weight. I have used Epson ever since I started digital photography in the 1990s and have had great luck. My last printer was the R1800. I have hundreds invested in paper and spare ink. I am considering selling all on Craigs List and looking for a more reliable brand.

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Its weird, I almost feel like Im lying by only rating the printer 4 stars. The prints are gorgeous once you get the settings dialed in. Used with a high quality photo paper (personally, I love the Ilford GALERIE Prestige line of papers) youll get prints that will absolutely blow away anything from CVS and the like. Purely from an image quality standpoint, fully 5 stars. I like the touchscreen menu system, which makes it easy to change the settings. There are also some Epson phone apps that allow you to print photos directly from your phone over the wifi connection (not something Id do often, but on rare occasion it makes a convenient way to get prints for visiting relatives, etc). My primary issue with the printer so far is the way it shares a line between the photo black ink and the matte black ink. If you were previously printing a glossy print and you want to switch to a matte paper for something, the printer first has to clear the line of any photo black thats in there, which wastes several dollars worth of ink. Then the same thing has to happen again when you switch back. Its inefficient and costly, and I may not be an engineer, but I cant think of a single reason why this is necessary (especially considering the competing Canon photo printers manage to have separate lines). So the upshot is that I find myself subconsciously avoiding doing any work with the matte ink because I dont want to waste money. I looked it up, and switching from matte to photo black uses 3 ml of ink (more than 11% of the cartridge capacity!) while going in the other direction uses 1 ml. Theres a "Save Ink" option in the menu system that reduces it to 1 ml in each direction, but Im not sure what the drawback would be. I assume it has something to do with potential mixing/contamination of the two inks. Im willing to take that chance, I think. The cost of ink is going to be an important consideration. Youve probably heard it a hundred times before: manufacturers supposedly take a huge loss on printers because they know that youll get locked in to their ink cartridges, and that will more than make up for the printer that they practically gave away. This printer may be more expensive than many, but the idea is still the same. Consider that currently, the replacement ink set will run you $279. I tried to find some statistics on usage levels, and if you search for "red river P600 cost per print", the first result will be a link to a useful breakdown of approximate cost. They did 200 (8x10) prints at the lower quality level (1440x720) and found that youre averaging one cartridge change about every 30 prints. This means that the total cost per 8x10 is around $1. Of course, that price goes up when you print at either of the higher resolutions, but unfortunately the test did not include any of this information. Im currently looking into refillable cartridges, I figure its worth a shot. If it doesnt work out, I can always switch back, but the potential cost savings is significant.

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Not sure Ive had it long enough to write a fully-qualified review. For starters, am I to assume that the ink cartridges that come WITH the printer are smaller capacity ink cartridges than replacement ones will be? Cuz if not, I just blew through those in lightening fast speed and barely printed much. ::gulp:: Its got me a-feared! Im an artist and began printing prints of art pieces Ive printed for years to fill orders. Some came out exactly as theyve always looked, others were way off. Strange to me that some would be perfectly calibrated in color, others not. And of course I have to blow through yet more ink getting them right again. I expect an adjustment period with any new printer, especially when it comes to printing colored art.......but there seems to be no rhyme or reason to (like lighter on blues, darker on yellows) skews. I just have to try each print to find out where it needs tweaking. Perhaps Ill have more to add once I work through this "adjustment period".

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