Just Posted: Our Epson Stylus Photo R3000 review

The million dollar question for me is "Does it clog?"

I wonder if the reviewer calibrated the printer before printing any of the samples. I read about calibrating his monitor, but that is not the same as calibrating the printer.
As he complained about colours that didn't match the colour of his monitor, I suppose he did not. Using the profiles provided by the manufacturer is not a guarantee for prints. Moreover changing the output in your print programme is not the right way to get prints that match the intended colours. You need to calibrate your printer with every kind of paper you use with a proper calibrating tool and programme, like X-Rite or Spyder3Print. It is a world of difference before and after. Especially for a test on a decent web site like Dpreview you need to do proper and sound testing. The test should be performed in a way that we, the readers, can repeat the tests and get the same results. Also state paper types and sample photographs.

Huge disappointment!!

Sorry to be hursh but I don't like this review at all, the conclusion on the quality page is: "Overall the R3000 is more than capable of producing excellent prints, and with some fine tuning by the end user perfect color prints should be easily obtained. "

but wait, SHOULD?? It's not a review of a 50$, the review MUST give complete and precise information, is a 1000$ printer! We can't buy it on a SHOULD comment!

I'm think that this review is quite a big step back from Oliver's excellent reviews on photo-i.co, this is my biggest element of regret.
anyway is the first review here on dpr and I hope that next issues will be much better.

bye!

criticisms of the review;
1/ we don't all read inches, how big is the maximum size expressed in A terms?

2/ How thick a paper can it take? 300 gsm is fine but will it take various textures and how well will it print on them?

If details are lost in the black and adjustments need to be made for bleaching in the whites, then how is this a gold printer? Is this an upgrade or superior to the R2800? Can anyone write a comparison between the new R3000 and the R2800 in abilities, please?

The B/W image is neutral but detail on the door in the far arch has become blocked up
The black reel is far too heavy, individual strand detail has been lost

How does this translate to gold?

Thanks for the review

I own a R3000 myself. I agree with most part of this review and I will make an own review after I used it for about a year. When mentioning the cost of this printer. It's not a low priced printer at all, but that is not so much the point in this part of the market. The point is the ink price. When they would lower the price of their ink by half it would drag a lot of people over the line to go from high quality digital lab printing to that of own home brewing.

Rather than making adjustments in your editor to correct the dark cast, did you try creating custom profiles for the printer?

I have a 3800, which has 80ml cartridges. These last a good long time. When one is empty, the printer simply stops partway through printing and carries on when the cartridge is replaced. No effect on the quality of the photo. This is great and in contrast to my earlier Canon which just carried on with a colour missing.
I am very happy with my Epson.