The phenomenal print quality, high speed and affordable price distinguish EPSON T50 from most similar devices. This is an excellent device for creating a darkroom at home or in a miniature office. If desired, in conjunction with such a printer, you can use the HPF system, and this minimizes the cost of color and monochromatic printing.
Positioning. What is included in the package?
EPSON T50 is a premium-class photo printer . Most of the reviews give out really high print quality, which is due to high resolution and the use of six colors at once in the process. It is most optimal to use such an inkjet printer at home or in a photo studio. It can also be used for color printing in a small office. The manufacturer included in the delivery list:
The only drawback of this configuration is the lack of a cable for connecting to the port of a personal computer. According to the manufacturer, this accessory is already available from the newly made owner of such a peripheral device. If it is not available, then you have to buy it.
All About Paper
As noted earlier, EPSON T50 belongs to the class of photo printers by the manufacturer. This initially provides high quality output photos and pictures. But in order to maximize the possibilities of such a printer, you must use the appropriate media. It may be photo paper. Moreover, both with a matte and glossy surface. Their density should be equal to 220 g / m 2 . The lowest value of carrier density is set by the manufacturer at 60 g / m 2 . So in this case, printing on plain paper is also allowed, but only in this case the print quality will be worse. The main page sizes are 10X15 or 13X18. But the largest carrier size in this case is A4 sheet, whose length is 297 mm and its width is 210 mm.
Speed of work. Connection interface
The EPSON T50 printer is capable of outputting up to 37 A4 sheets in black and white and 38 pages in color with similar sizes. But these values are valid for draft mode and reduced to 60 g / m 2 density of paper pages. If you use photo paper for output, the speed of the print unit will decrease. There is only one port for connection in the T50 from Epson - USB. The main modification of this interface for such a photo printer is 2.0. But you can also use other versions of it - 1.X or 3.X. In the first case, the printing speed will decrease slightly.
Resolution. Print quality
A key feature of this printer is the high quality of printed images, photographs and pictures. It is provided with the highest possible resolution, which is 5760X1440. Other important factors are EPSON T50 ink and the organization of the printing subsystem. These factors make it possible to obtain a droplet size on the carrier of the order of 1.5 ml. Accordingly, it is simply impossible to distinguish a separate such point with the ordinary eye.
Cartridges Ink and CISS
As has been repeatedly noted, belongs to the class of photo printers by the eminent Japanese manufacturer of peripheral equipment EPSON T50. Cartridges for this reason are refilled not only with the usual yellow, black, magenta and cyan inks, but also light magenta and light cyan. The presence of additional two colors can significantly improve the quality of the output documentation. Moreover, both in color format and in monochromatic. The general marking of the cartridges has the form C13T11zy4A10. In turn, z can take the following values:
1 - black.
2 - blue.
3 - purple.
4 - yellow.
5 - light blue.
6 - light purple.
The second variable takes the following values:
1 - increased cartridge capacity up to 400 pages.
2 - standard ink volume, which allows you to print about 200 pages.
There is no built-in NPS system in this device, but it can be purchased separately. Experience shows that it is better to entrust the installation and configuration to professionals. This, of course, is the additional cost of launching the printing subsystem, but a poorly trained user can cope with this operation.
Drivers
Only in conjunction with two types of operating systems can be used EPSON T50 . In the first case, it is Windows. Moreover, there are drivers even for server operating systems. The second type of system software is MacOS. But Linux and UNIX cannot work with such a photo printer. But this is not so critical for the reason that PCs with such system software are not so common. In extreme cases, you can start the emulation system and print from under it.
Customization, reviews and cost
Affordable and high-quality turned EPSON T50. Customer reviews highlight its advanced features. This solution has no serious drawbacks. But the advantages can be safely attributed high speed, excellent print quality and a fairly low cost of 9000 rubles. This list is supplemented by a simple tuning algorithm, which includes the following steps:
Install the printer next to the control PC.
We install cartridges.
We carry out all the necessary connections.
We install on the PC all the accompanying software with drivers.
Print a test page.
Summary
The perfect combination of high quality printed documentation, affordable cost and excellent technical parameters sets EPSON T50 apart from its direct competitors. Most often, such a photo printer can be found at home or in a small office. But also often it is used in copy centers or photo studios.