High colour large format printers
EPSON has introduced four new Stylus Pro 880 series large format printers, and its new UltraChrome K3 ink with Vivid Magenta for colour critical printing applications.
The Epson Stylus Pro 4880, Stylus Pro 7880, Stylus Pro 9880 and Stylus Pro 11880 provide advanced print durability, colour accuracy and consistency, across a wide range of media in print widths from 17 to 64 inches.
Epson also announced eight-colour UltraChrome K3 ink with Vivid Magenta in this new printer range, the most advanced fourth generation pigment ink available, delivering a colour gamut equivalent to conventional 12-colour ink sets.
As the name suggests eight-colour UltraChrome K3 ink with Vivid Magenta expands UltraChrome's already large colour gamut for highly accurate colour reproduction of more vivid reds and blues and smoother tonal gradation in proofs, photographs and fine art prints.
A breakthrough new pigment ink chemistry developed by Seiko Epson allowed the creation of a higher density form of magenta pigments.
Epson then worked with some of the world's leading professional photographers and print companies to fine tune the printer driver, ink and print head to produce prints with expanded gamut in blues and reds without losing any of UltraChrome's brilliance and colour depth in other colours of the spectrum.
The result is an outstanding eight-colour pigment ink with Vivid Magenta and Vivid Light Magenta that has colour gamut advantages over conventional 12-colour ink sets on gloss, matte and fine art media.
By using only eight colours Epson maintains a simplified colour management process providing easier colour control.
To complement the enhancements introduced by UltraChrome K3 ink with Vivid Magenta, the 880 series printers use Epson's new Image Processing Technology, a new image half toning algorithm that produces smoother tones and more detail.
The Stylus Pro 4880, Stylus Pro 7880, and Stylus Pro 9880 have USB2.0 and Ethernet as standard interfaces. They can use either 110 or 220ml ink cartridges.
26-Jul-2007