Epson XP-15000 Review
Take picture printing to new heights with the Epson Expression Photo HD XP-15000 wireless wide-format printer, delivering brilliant, pro-quality, borderless prints up to 13" x 19". Private 6-color Claria® Photo HD Inks — with all-new Red and Gray inks — deliver a wide color gamut and improved black-and-white photo printing.
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The bg 50-sheet rear specialty tray makes printing pro-quality projects easier than ever before—even on cardstock. And with 2-sided printing, a 200-sheet front tray, and a convenient cordless connection, publishing stacks of files is a breeze. Obtain all this in a compact printer that's 30 percent smaller than its predecessor.
Epson is maintaining an approximately five-year design cycle for the entry-level versions of its A3+ printer line-up. The XP-15000 replaces the Artisan 1430, which we assessed in February 2012, and which itself replaced the 2007 Stylus Photo 1410.
Like them, it is made solely for printing and can handle reduced-size paper up to 329 x 483 mm (A3+). Its droplet dimensions and result resolution coincide with the 1430s; however, it uses a new ink collection and differs in a few other ways, as shown in the table below.
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Printer Overview
The XP-15000 is much more portable than its predecessors and significantly lighter, the latter due in part to a few concessions in development to improve high-quality performance. Compared with the 1430, although some functions may be more convenient than their equivalents in the previous design, the overall build and construction of the XP-15000 is less substantial.
Epson has actually made considerable adjustments to many elements of the design. Like the most up-to-date designs in the Workforce and EcoTank arrays, the XP-15000 features a tilting control panel with an LCD display, a powered print tray that deploys automatically, a cassette for simple A4 paper, and a back-feed slot for main loading.
The cassette is located below the print tray and accessed using a drop-down panel. Unfortunately, the tray and self-extending take-up tray aren't as solid as we'd like, and packing paper into the cassette can be tricky. Automating the tray's release and storage has the potential to cause problems over time due to wear and tear. The rear paper assistance is also lightweight and easy to displace.
The cassette has adjustable sliders and significant settings for 10 x 15-centimeter and 13 x 18-centimeter sheets. It will addalsocept documents lonlargeran A4 sispecially 'legal' documents thameasuring.6 x 33 cm fo,r which a pull-out guide is givprovidedhe maximum ccapacityof the cassette is 200 sheets of ordinary A4 paper, 50 sheets of picture paper (all dimensions), or 'legal'-sized ordinary paper, 10 envelopes, or 80 sheets of A4 Epson Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper, which is thinner than routine image paper and used for publishing records with embedded pictures. You can also set it up for printing on envelopes.
Sheets of paper larger than A4 and 'lawful' dimensions must use the back sheet feed, which can accommodate approximately 50 sheets of plain paper or 20 sheets of photo paper. The optimum dimension, as determined by the User Defined choice in the vehicle driver food selection, is 329 x 1200 mm (~13 x 44 inches), the same as in previous models.
Indeterminate printing is available for many of the conventional documents listed in the chauffeur's food selection, but not for double-sided paper, picture stickers, or transfer paper. A tray for printing on optical discs is situated on the base of the paper cassette.
It matches a specialized slot behind the control board, just above the result tray, which can be difficult to access because there's little space above the cassette top. The control board must be completely lifted, and the disc tray carefully straightened before it will slide into place. Besides that, disc printing hasn't changed from previous models and relies on the same driver settings and Epson's Print CD software.
