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The size of the droplets the R3000 puts onto the paper are 2.0pl, compared to 3.0pl from the R2880. So, in other words, a picolitre is small - very, very small. A picolitre is one millionth of a microlitre, which in turn is one millionth of a litre. The picolitre (pl) measurement shows how small the droplets of ink are that the printer puts onto the paper. Photo Black (PK) and Matte Black (MK) inks 2.0pl droplet size But if there are some aspects of printing that you are worried about, be that loading a particular type of paper, printer maintenance such as head cleaning, or choosing which black ink to use on which paper (more about that later), the Epson R3000 takes all the stress away by holding your hand and taking you step-by-step through the operation on its built in LCD screen. The Epson R3000 is an easy, straightforward and uncomplicated printer that just about anybody will be able to use to get great photographic prints. Epson’s range of Fine Art media is particularly good, so the fact that the R3000 makes it so much easier to use them is a big thumbs-up. This is a far less complicated way of handling Fine Art papers and it doesn’t require the user to clamber over the back of the printer to try and load thick or textured paper. The front loading tray is popped down, the paper loaded and spooled into the printer before being returned through the usual printer path. The Epson R3000 addresses this by providing a much more convenient front loading Fine Art paper path. The downside of this arrangement was always that it meant pulling the printer away from the wall and required a fiddly paper loading process. These loading slots have provided a straighter paper path for the Fine Art media, meaning there is less chance of the thicker or textured papers being damaged as they are spooled through the printer. Previous incarnations of Epson's desktop A3+ printer (including the R2880) have been equipped with a separate paper loading slot at the rear of the printer for Epson range of fine art papers. As the R2880 is already a well established and much respected printer, it seems important to establish what extra the R3000 offers early on. One of the first things that Epson was keen to point out is that the R3000 is an accompaniment to the existing R2880 printer and not a replacement for it.

But that’s not important – on to the printer! In the blue corner.Įpson UK’s HQ looks like the offices of a high-tech company – there’s lots of glass, metal, brightly coloured soft furnishings, and they have trees growing indoors.

#EPSON STYLUS PHOTO R3000 PRINT QUALITY FULL#

Frankly, it’s amazing that they’ve had the time to create the R3000, but they have, and I got to try one out at Epson’s HQ near Hemel Hempstead a full month before its official release. Since then Epson has been the first manufacturer to put a colour printer into space (the Stylus 800), become the biggest selling printer brand in the UK, and has also had time to create the world’s first quartz watch, manufacture screens for mobile phones, create robots for the assembly lines of all kinds of hi-tech products, and become the number 1 manufacturer of digital projectors. The R3000 is the latest A3+ desktop printer from the Epson printer maestros and reflects just how far things have come in the world of home printing - certainly a long way since their EP-101 was created in the 1960s.

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