This was a great read. I’m just getting started with some fine art printing on my new XP-15000 and this was useful info. The XP-15000 is a dye ink based printer which adds a grey and red ink to the normal CMYK mix. This along with its support for A3+ paper (13″ x 19″) and custom paper sizes up to 13″ x 44″ makes it a step up from the average ‘small office’ printer.

Why print with a ‘wrong’ profile? Well, it’s a standard Epson paper and I might have thought quite close to ‘Semi-Gloss’. Convenient printing features – supports auto 2-sided document printing, with a 200-sheet front tray 5 Those strips at the top of the test image are for reading with a spectrophotometer. Their main purpose is to give me a feel for the linearity of the B&W printing process. Here, I’m printing an image on an A3+ sheet of canvas, and have added a mirrored/blurred extension for wrapping over an A4 sized stretcher. There are settings in the EPL software to handle lots of different mounting methods.

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The printer does record some basic print history, which may be useful for keeping tabs on your printing (or others with access to the printer…) Paper sizes can be specified as needed, if one of the default sizes won’t do. For myself this most often arises when making panoramic prints, whether from roll paper or some of the panoramic paper sizes now available. It’s well worth looking at any image with different rendering intents, since there is an element of soft proofing available. Like all soft proofing, use this for assistance rather than relying on it to show exactly how a print will look. Soft proofing can never replicate how a print looks.

Lenses – The lens has dust inside that may affect images. The rubber zoom/focus ring is coming away from the barrel of the lens. As you’d expect with modern dye inks, colour prints on glossy papers and some art papers look excellent. Results were less impressive with several baryta style papers I like, where the fact that such papers are optimised for pigment ink really shows. Our used products are subject to wear and tear in comparison to brand new products. This also applies to accessories that are supplied with the camera including batteries which may have a lower optimum performance level/life expectancy. The image (Ely Cathedral) has been resized to fit. It has not been scaled to any particular pixels per inch (PPI) setting. Third-party connectivity support (not tested here) includes Android printing, Apple AirPrint, Fire OS printing and Google Cloud Print. The displayJust one warning – make sure that the word ‘AirPrint’ doesn’t appear in a name – this is a cut down driver, and the most common source (on Macs) of people wondering where many of their printer driver settings have gone. For more about this, see my Epson P700 setup article. I’ve got some ‘double A4’ paper which is good for panoramic images, although you could just as well cut a length from a 13″ roll.

I’m printing my profiling targets (via the Mac ColorSync Utility) using whatever seems closest from the range of media choices available for the XP-15000. I can't print from Windows with a wireless connection since I received an exchange product from Epson. What should I do? I also use both for testing the performance of printer profiles. If you make use of them, then do be sure to read the explanatory notes that go with them.

If you can open it on your apple device, chances are you can print it with AirPrint and an AirPrint compatible printer. Airprint works with Safari, Mail, Photos, iWork, PDF's in iBooks and many third-party AirPrint compatible apps available from the app store. Ultimate wireless and wired connectivity – easily print from iPad ®, iPhone ® and Android™ tablets and smartphones 4; also offers Ethernet networking Surprisingly compact, the XP-15000 can print A3+ photos from its small footprint. It's stylish too and looks great from all angles.

A profile target being printed – the point where I discovered that unlike some printers, lifting the lid doesn’t stop printing. Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 SP1, Mac OS X v10.11.6 - macOS v10.15, 14 iOS, Android, Windows 10 Mobile I always suggest using such images when testing new papers, rather than your own favourite photos. If you can print an image you like the quality of, from these, then it makes refining the printing of your own work so much easier.Ultra compact wide-format A3+ printer— 30 percent smaller than its predecessor 2; easily fits on your desktop Network printers can be wired or wireless. A printer with a wired network connection uses an Ethernet cord that connects directly to your router. A wireless printer connects to your home or office Wi-Fi network. Any computer also connected to your network can use your printer, whether it’s wired or wireless. You will have to install software, or printer drivers, on the computer before you can print. Also, there is a setup process for the printer to get it on the network. If your printer is not wireless, you’ll need to connect it directly to your computer via USB cable, which is not ideal if you have multiple users that need the printer simultaneously. Cameras – LCD screen is heavily worn either by de-lamination or has scratches to it. Rubber grips are starting to come away from the body.