Yes, you are right. I have just used up an entire set of inks (for test purposes) and the Yellow ran dry first. After replacing the Yellow the Black, Photo Cyan and Photo Magenta also ran dry. I printed 30 PPP sheets at full coverage and over 250 A4 sheets of contact prints (set to Plain Paper mode) to get to the stage of running dry. An impressive printer.
-- UlyssesI can verify that you can do borderless printing right up to A3mikews -
Can you verify these points as soon as your get your printer.
I had the exact same questions after reading the review.
with the Canon.
Vincent
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-- Ulysses
it depends on your printing habit. When you print multiple images over time, mostly every ink will be used evenly and run out at the same time. And that what Epson think that most people do.
Please don't compare the S600 4-colour printer to the S800 6-colour generation. The differences are immense (I own the S800 and my mother has the S600 so I have first hand experience of both).
Sounds like a good test and conclusion to me.
Their test had their stamp on it and on the whole it was fairly good. Although the reference to only being able to do a 6x4 borderless print was off track. Even if a A3 printer didn't offer borderless printing, there would be a way to create at least a A4 borderless print.Vincent -
You were the first person I thought to ask regarding this question.
I just got too sleepy to post last night.
So what do you think was the deal with their test? This is a rather
huge deal to miss this sort of fact in the review (misstated it a
couple of times, actually).
There is a borderless setting under the menu, you can set the amount of overlap.
My timings were better, but then this would also depend on their computer, RAM, Processor speed, what application they are using to print from and how much memory this uses and spooling space etc. I produced a full A4 sheet at the highest quality in approx 90 seconds - good enough for me.
Yes, it seemed like their general impressions were right on. With this detail, however, it made me wonder if they just didn't get familiar enough with the printer.
Going borderless on the Epsons tends to slow those printers down by quite a bit if I remember my information correctly. Do you notice a similar slow-down in the Canons?
Fortunately, my new PC, packed with RAM, is on its way.
And that is saying a lot. -- Ulysses
Sounds about right to me. I didn't replace the cartridges during my test period on the S900. During the changing process I must have held the cartridge by it's side (well, I did) and as I twisted the orange cap off I squirted my hands with Photo Magenta. Be carefull when putting in new colours. I can also vouch that the ink washed off the next day - so much for 25 years fade resistance (thank heavens).
Yes and No.
Heh, the Colorio 950 that Epson is holding back on us, has 7 colors, 2pl droplet size, and the ability to feed and print directly on CDR's.
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