EPSON Stylus Photo P50: photo printer with excellent print quality

A photo printer with excellent quality of printing both black and white documents and color images is EPSON Stylus Photo P50. It is about its capabilities, technical characteristics and other important features that will be discussed later.

Niche device

EPSON Stylus Photo P50 belongs to the segment of photo printers. On the one hand, it allows the owner of such a device to get a phenomenal print quality. And on the other hand, the cost of consumables and the device itself increases significantly. As a result, the hero of this review is an excellent solution for organizing the output subsystem in those cases where it is necessary at any cost to obtain excellent print quality. In all other cases (with a limited budget or not so high quality requirements for printing, for example), it is recommended to purchase more affordable printers or even MFPs. Another "chip" of this printer is the ability to print on discs, but today this option is not so important.

Equipment

Typical for this class of printers is the configuration of the hero of this review. It includes the following:

• The printer itself.

• A set of cartridges of 6 pieces.

• Power cord for connecting the printing system to AC power.

• Manual.

• A disk with the necessary software for setting up and using the peripheral device.

• Warranty card.

In the above list, there is just not enough USB communication cable . Most likely, the Japanese manufacturer decided that each user already has such an accessory at the moment. But if you do not have it, you will have to purchase it additionally. Also, it should be noted separately that this printer is not equipped with a default NPH system. This important component of the printing system will also have to be purchased separately and connected and configured independently.

Printing method. List of colors

Inkjet printing technology uses the output of documents and images EPSON Stylus Photo P50. An additional sign of high quality of printing is that in this case the color picture is formed not by 4 colors (as in budget devices), but by the 6th one. As a result, in this printer there are such containers with colors: yellow, blue, black, purple, light purple and light blue.

Communication list

A non-standard peripheral printer in terms of interfaces is sufficient for the hero of this review. On the one hand, it is equipped with a basic wired way of connecting to a PC - it's USB. And he can quite successfully work with any of his modifications. But unusual in this case is the presence of a slot for installing memory cards. That is, this printer can display pictures and documents from them. The drawbacks of this model include the lack of WiFi support . But do not forget that at the time of the release of this product, the wireless interface has not yet received wide distribution among printing peripheral devices.

Resolution, speed and size of paper

Printer EPSON Stylus Photo P50 is able to output the image to print in 5760 x1440 format . According to this characteristic, it does not concede even to the current flagship printing devices. это периферийное устройство может печатать со скоростью 1 штука в 5 секунд. The speed of printing for monochrome is set at 37 sheets per minute, and for color, even more - 38. Photos of the format 10x15 this peripheral device can print at a speed of 1 piece in 5 seconds. The maximum size of a paper sheet, as for any other photo printer - A4. The lowest value of paper density is 64 g / m ² , and the largest value is 300.

User opinion

There are significant advantages in EPSON Stylus Photo P50. The reviews highlight the following:

• High speed printing.

• Excellent quality of received images.

• Presence of a slot for installing a memory card.

• The ability to install a system of NPCs and a significant reduction in the cost of printing one sheet.

• This printer can also work perfectly with non-original consumables.

Minuses in this case 2:

• - нет драйверов. This printer can not work with a PC on which the Linux operating system is installed - no drivers.

• Modest configuration (even no interface cable).

Cost

At the moment, the peripheral device considered in this article can be purchased for 12,000 rubles. Also in addition to it, you need to buy an interface cable to connect to a personal computer, which will cost about 500 rubles. Another important component that will allow the maximum use of this printer is CISS for EPSON Stylus Photo P50. The minimum cost is 4000 rubles. If we put it all together, we will get 16,500 rubles. этого же производителя за 18000 рублей, но при этом она уже изначально оснащена заводской системой НПЧ. So it turns out that it is more justified in this situation to buy a more recent model L800 of the same manufacturer for 18,000 rubles, but at the same time it is already equipped with a factory NPH system.

Results

Despite the fact that the EPSON Stylus Photo P50 has already been released for a long time, it still is not inferior to the current flagship photo printers in terms of technical specifications. Its only drawback is the lack of built-in CISS. But this minus is not so difficult to eliminate.