That's a Big Printer

This is a real thing...in case you thought it was tough fitting a printer in your office. (I've been feeling guilty about not having enough room for a P800.)

It's the new Epson SureColor S60600. Epson's new large printers are on sale right now, in case you need an extra one of these for your bedroom. The price of this model is reduced by roughly the cost of two P800's. (Also on sale, for $250 off.) Final price after rebate $18,995. (The S60600, not the P800.)

I'm just happy I'm not tasked with keeping one of these on song. When I remember how hard it was to keep my B9180 going....

Mike

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Featured Comments from:

Brian Woolf: "I recently purchased an Epson P6000 24"-wide printer from B&H, they had a special that I could not believe—free shipping. Since shipping that monster was about $500, couldn't pass it up. It is less wide than your illustration photo but it is still large for only a 24" wide printer. It's a beautiful machine and, so far, looks after itself, doing nozzle checks randomly. I print every other day to keep it going."

Geoff Wittig: "For what it's worth, large format inkjets are generally a lot more trouble-free than their smaller desktop cousins. I presume that's a consequence of the quality engineering and better parts you get for the higher price of entry. I've been using a Canon iPF6300 for years, and it's been a paragon of reliability. If I leave it idle for a few weeks it has to run a cleaning cycle, but it then resumes cranking out prints without complaint. I find myself trying to resist the siren's song of deeper blacks from the latest generation of printers; I simply can't justify it when this printer just keeps going and going."

Ned Bunnell: "We're renovating our new house, and I'm adding a fourth bedroom/office to accommodate the P800. Can't imagine the space I'd need for this beast."

Keith B.: "It would be wise to find space for a P800, since the gouge-factor of the ink costs for any of the smaller units will eat away at your soul. Ask me how I know."

Comments

[Patrick]

Never mind the printer cost, imagine the price of replacing the cartridges after every couple of dozen 6 by 4 inch prints you might manage to get it to reluctantly spew out (if the cartridges don't go out of date first that is).

[Markus Spring]

When I read the headline, I had expected a human with extraordinary printing skills. What a disappointment, but it confirmed my decision to improve my English instead of bying another printer.

[James Weekes]

Of all the medium sized printers, the B9180 garnered more bad press due to it's being so hard to keep tuned. I have an Epson 3800, that I am about to give to my daughter, that has been a rock for 5 years. Every now and then it needs a head cleaning, but otherwise it is a gem. I am replacing it with a P800 and expect the same reliability.

Didn't you get a P600?

[James Bullard]

I suppose I could evict the car from the garage. :-)

[Jeff]

Plus, for the P800, there's another $50 rebate (separate from the $250) if one already owns a qualifying Epson printer (listed on the rebate site).

[David L.]

You didn't mention the cost of all the ink replacements. Last year I was talking to a work group with a similar sized HP printer they were bringing back to operation. They said a new set of ink cartridges was over $10,000.

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Can't help notice that in Epson's own advertising image (well, I'm guessing on the image source) they're printing two big posters side by side. That is, the printer is too big for most purposes.

[Kenneth Tanaka]

These enormous commercial ink jet printers really fascinate me. This model seems like quite an advancement in maintenance requirements and perhaps reliability.

Much more information about this printer on the Lexjet blog.

[Miserere]

If anybody ever said "we're going to need a bigger printer", Epson has them sorted.

Even the printer we have at my research institution isn't this big. It prints as long as you want (or until the huge roll of paper runs out), but "only" 36 inches wide.

[G Dan Mitchell]

That is, I believe, a "solvent" printer — which most photographers probably do not want. Just be careful before writing that check!

[rodfrank]

And what did Don McCullin say?

[Alan Carmody]

Mere chump change for those who buy the latest Hasselblad or Leica S systems...

But at those print sizes, you'd still have to up-res, in all likelihood.

[John]

I have an Epson R1800 which is now about nine years old. Last year it started asking to be serviced - "parts approaching the end of their useful life" or something like that - so I had it done. I am not a heavy user, but that is the only issue it has caused me.