Hello everyone it’s Ben from Printerbase and in this video we’ll be demonstrating
the SC-P800 from Epson.
This machine blows me away.
Excellent quality prints and large format features, in a desktop model for less than
£1,000!
The focus of a machine like this is quality over speed, but page out times and print speeds
are still a factor, so without further ado, lets get printing.
The first print today will be a colour photograph, on a piece of A6 glossy paper.
In the print driver, I’ll be using the photo paper glossy profile, the print mode is AccuPhoto
HD, I’ll use Epson’s Standard colour mode, the superfine 1440dpi resolution, and with
high speed checked.
Let’s see how it performs.
Fairly decent performance there.
The eagle eyed among you may be thinking the end result looks a little flat, and to be
honest it does.
That’s down to the cheap media, and the fact that I’ve used pre-sets only, and not
really dabbled with the advanced settings.
If you had the time, you’d tweak the contrast and colour levels, to get the most out of
you print.
You’ll also notice there’s an edge, this is because in the Mac driver at least, there’s
no option for A6 borderless printing.
This is a shame, but really, who buys an A2 device to print single postcards?
Moving on, we have an A4 print on the same kind of glossy paper.
This time I’ll be printing scaled down a little, to allow some white space around the
edges.
A common method amongst photographers, this this allows a little breathing room around
the print for mounting, and it also lets you handle the print, without marking the image.
In the driver, again I’m on the Photo Paper Glossy profile, the print mode is AccuPhoto
HD, using Epson’s Standard colour mode, the superfine 1440dpi resolution, and with
high speed checked.
Finally we’ll make a full A3 borderless print.
This time I’m using a premium lustre paper.
I personally prefer a lustre finish when printing larger than A4, as it disperses the light
more evenly, and lets the viewer concentrate on the print, whereas full on gloss reflects
more light.
In the driver I’m using the Ultra Premium Photo Paper Lustre profile, The Advanced Black
& White Photo print mode, Epson’s sRGB colour space, and the superfine 1440dpi print resolution,
with high speed
un-checked.
There we have it.
The lustre paper seems to be much better than the cheaper gloss papers with just the pre-sets,
highlighting the importance of higher quality papers.
This isn’t bad for glossy finishes, in fact any high quality paper regardless of finish
would work brilliantly with this printer, I just happen to prefer lustre for larger
prints.
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I’m ben, and thanks for watching.