Epson’s Stylus Photo R1900 is a follow-up model to the R1800. This printer’s release was a mere three years after R1800. The reason to this may be that, compared to other fields in the technology industry, printer innovation and new technology isn’t actually amazing or fast. To put it simple, the normal consumer will do just fine with a device that doesn’t break down a desk due to huge weight, also offers legible text printing and occasionally decent photo printing.




Due to this not many consumers want to spend a large amount of money on more high-tech printers, except for maybe the professional photographer for whom quality of prints and new features do matter a lot. Epson’s R1900 is a one of the photo quality printers that reinvents the concept of glossy printing. It’s a wide format printer with quite a few useful features.

Along with the printer you’ll get to make use of some pretty new and awesome technologies such as the UltraChrome Hi-Gloss pigment ink or Radiance Technology (that’s meant to maximize the color gamut and at the same time optimize print quality). UltraChrome Hi-Gloss ink was a huge evolution for photography printing, offering a wider color gamut with consistency, a smooth gloss finish as well as natural skin tones.

On top of the cyan, magenta and yellow inks that consumers are used to getting, this printer also features options for matte black, red, orange, photo black as well as gloss optimizer. With this set of eight inks, there is obviously a huge number of combinations you can achieve. To establish which combination you should use to get exactly the colors you need for a certain image, Epson has provided a technology called Look Up Table which decides how much of each color is used for a print job. Because of all this exciting new technology the result is printing with reduced graininess, a wide color gamut and very high quality.

The printer can support a wide variety of media, like glossy, matter of fine art paper, with sizes of up to A3+.  Borderless printing can be achieved at a resolution of up to 5760 x 1440 dpi. There is no built in Ethernet, but this printer is hardly the type that needs to be used in an office. You’ll have to make do with 2 USB ports that you can find on the back of the device, thus allowing two computers to be connected at the same time. There’s also the option to print straight from a PictBridge compatible digital camera and you’ll find a separate USB port for that right on the front of the printer (for easy access).

The Epson Stylus photo R1900 is one good photo quality printers and a viable choice for users who are looking to produce photos with a superior gloss finish. The prints are also smudge, fade and water resistant as well as vibrant and gallery-quality. Due to support of roll paper, panorama printing is also possible as well as CD or DVD printing.

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