Epson Stylus Color 880
Price: AU$599
Distributor: Epson Australia
Ph: 02 9903 9000; Fax: 02 9903 9177
www.epson.com.au
Past iterations of Epson's 6xx and 8xx printers have followed the same basic styling cues, the 8xx has simply been equipped with a faster print engine. The x80 series now sees some divergence in the design, cosmetically at least. The 880 is, externally, not all that different from the model is supersedes and includes identical control and I/O functionality to the 680. (Unfortunately we did not receive consumables in time to complete cartridge life tests on the 880.)
The 880 we received was definitely a preproduction unit, as were the supplied drivers on CDR. Given the printer's enhanced capabilities over the 680 (such as 144 black nozzles and 48 nozzles per CMY colour compared to the latter's 64 black and 32 CMY colour), it would be fair to expect the 880 to be the faster of the two. This is certainly what we have witnessed in the past, but in our tests this did not prove to be so. The 880 actually performed slightly slower than the 680, which, to be blunt, is quite obviously wrong. We did the performance testing several times when we noticed the discrepancy and were unable to improve the 880's output speed.
The drivers are pretty much identical for both printers and we ensured identical quality settings were utilised for both printers. We are unsure as to where the problem lay, be it printer driver or printer firmware, but we would expect the production version of the 880 to be a good deal faster.
It may simply be variability in the manufacturing but the 880 character formation was very slightly superior to the 680. Given the 880's failure to live up to our performance expectations in document tests we certainly did not expect it to perform any better in the Photo test. We were not mistaken: the output times were almost identicalâ€"rounded to 0.14ppm for each printer. The quality of the output was, of course, excellent and the 880 at default settings produced slightly more accurate skin tones than the 680 and as a consequence we actually scored the 880 slightly higher in this test.
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