Advances in printer technology don't come along very frequently and tend
to be less than earth-shattering. Almost three years after Epson
introduced the widely popular Stylus Photo R1800,
the company has released the Stylus Photo R1900, which brings along
with it a new version of the company's pigment-based UltraChrome
Hi-Gloss ink set called UltraChrome Hi-Gloss2. The new inks include an
orange cartridge, instead of the blue cartridge used with the R1800,
which allows for slightly better skin tones.
The company has also revamped the way it translates colors from the
images shot by your digital camera into those that the printer can
reproduce. Epson is calling this new system Radiance Technology, but
while Epson also claims some grain reduction and smoother color
transitions with the system, at its heart it's mostly a new set of
look-up tables that the company says can better maximize the number of
colors available with this printer. Since we're dealing with a new ink
set, it's hard to compare the difference that Radiance Technology makes,
but I can say that the Stylus Photo R1900 has a very wide color gamut
and did a great job of printing colors that can often give inkjets
trouble, such as deep purples and some shades of blue. Plus, as you
might expect, the orange ink can help with oranges and some darker
shades of yellow. epson stylus photo r1900
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