Epson SureColor P400 Wireless Color Photo Printer, 20.9 x 25.8 x 13.5 Inches, Black, Model:C11CE85201

Was a pain to set up on WiFi, it took me a few stabs at it, but once going, the prints are a dream come true. It's a shame I had to go to this price point to restore my faith in Epson photo printers. I had to try two printers before leaving the MFP's in the dust and coming up to this one. That being said, I have to say this is the best photo printer I've ever seen in my home or any home anywhere. I would never go back to any other MFP after experiencing the photo prints from this semi-pro introductory printer! Here are my observations: The settings from the printer driver dialogue are pretty easy to use, there is a print manager if you want to use it to tweak the settings, but I have to tell you that on all the Epson photo papers I tested, the regular high quality settings along with the PhotoEnhance option (slow, not fast) was good enough to render spectacular results! I did try some of the portraits in fast mode and I couldn't tell much discernible loss in quality. I also tried some older HP and Kodak papers I had, but this printer balked a bit and unhappily caused a few minor blotches on a couple of sample prints and I wasn't happy with some of the yellow on my Kodak paper, which I will probably use now to make proofs. So I decided it would be worth it to try genuine Epson papers and I'm so glad I did, it truly makes a HUGE difference. Those other papers were a total waste of this printer's wonderful ink. Here are the Epson photo papers I bought here on Amazon as a "starter kit" for this printer: Epson premium Glossy 8x10, Epson Glossy 13x19 and Epson Metallic Luster A4, Here is what I found: Excellent borderless performance on all the glossy papers. And my late mother's portrait came out looking like a high quality lab print on the metallic luster paper with all the grain texture and lighting depth to be expected of a display or gallery style paper! I couldn't be more pleased. My 13x19 prints were of Big Bend National Park at the window at sundown, the printer captured the nuance of the foreground shadowing and contrast while capturing the "atomic" glow of the sunset on the mountains as it softly lit up the inside of the camera, I never thought it would be possible for a home printer to capture this glowing quality in the photo. And what was more remarkable is that this photo was taken with a 5MP Sony Cybershot H1. I never thought this camera could output this quality of print on this kind of printer, but it was fabulous! Second shot from Big Bend (again on A3+ paper) from the same camera was of Santa Elena Canyon on the Rio Grand in the mid-afternoon, which showed a little purple fringing, which this camera is known for, but this print, too, turned out way better than I had ever hoped. Third picture on the A3+ paper was taken with my Canon T1 Rebel of a cluster of palm trees and fan palms on the ground with a pinch of mostly sunny day peeking through in the photo taken in Cozumel, MX. This photo printed out on the large format paper super faithful to the color of the actual day, I am thrilled with the performance. There are less purple fringing artifacts with the Canon than the Sony, so this large format print was particularly crisp and detailed. Here is where I stand on the initial ink tanks after twelve 8x10 prints and three 13x19 prints: All the color tanks are down to about 3/4 except for regular black which is still at 100% since I've done no text printing yet, photo black is down to about 3/4 also. All the color tanks show a degree of difference between them, obviously, which shows the printer driver is giving you a good idea of the ink usage gradient of each cartridge. The glosser is down to about 1/4. It's true what they say about this printer using the glosser faster than any of the other cartridges, but it is soooo worth it. The glosser cartridge gives lab quality results with these fine papers. I haven't tried poster board, or thin canvas or roll paper yet, but they claim it can handle them all. Since the new driver upgrade, however, I don't see how to turn off the glosser usage. When I first installed it, the glosser could be reduced or disabled, now I can't find the option any more, maybe I need to dig deeper to find the setting now. It's not the widest format printer you can buy, but in this price range, it's a great starter and I have a feeling it's going to work for most of the prints I want to do at home with my photos from my older cameras. This is definitely upping my photog game and I'm going to learn to be even better at my craft thanks to what I can finally see in the fine prints from this great printer. Epson has finally restored my faith in their photo printers, anything less than this is just junk! I would recommend this for anyone getting started doing wedding photos, nature prints or portraits, so far, all of the above have been spectacularly well printed on this Epson P400! As an aside, I'm still keeping my Epson RX580 attached for general printing and scanning. I will be using the P400 for all my CD printing, too.

Wasted hours over multiple days and multiple routers trying to just get wifi working, but it never did. Had to buy a wifi extender with an ethernet port to plug in to this instead. Have to constantly power cycle this thing to get it to print. I've been wrestling for two days now to get one canvas print, because it'll either just not print at all, or print half, or just recently it started to print correctly but with huge gobs of ink. Yes the settings are correct from the paper type, size, print settings, etc. I've invested a lot of money in canvas paper, and ink, which this printer caused me to waste the majority of product with stupid bugs. That's no exaggeration. I've purchased a canvas roll from epson directly, and have only one usable print, with the rest of the roll wasted, plus an unknowable amount of wasted ink. Seriously extremely frustrating, I want to throw this thing out, but it's too expensive to do so. Other than that it's alright.

Epson claims that this is "versatile 13" wide-format photo printer for creative individuals" and will do "fine art, photographic and roll paper printing." Except you only get to be creative in the way Epson says you can be creative. Paper sizes are pre-ordained and you cannot add or change a paper size. Therefore, those of us who print on Italian art paper like Fabriano cannot print directly from the programs we create images in. No, we have to EXPORT TO PDF and print from Preview or other image program. Thus, it takes twice as long to send something to the printer. Epson apparently thinks creative people have a lot of time to lavish on making up for their stingy programming choices. You also can't print from whatever print feeder will work best for your material unless Epson says you can. You can't even experiment. No, if you select a certain paper type you MUST print it via whatever paper path is pre-selected for you by Epson, everything else is greyed out. So it the Epson-mandated paper path doesn't work well for your material...well, you're just SOL. I've had this printer one day and hate it already. Customer support is in the Philippines so even the phone data transmission is lousy. I'll rewrite this review if they do a software/firmware update to fix these problems. Until then--avoid this printer if you're at all creative. Epson doesn't understand what the word "creative" means.

I loved my Epson R800 and its prints are proudly displayed around my house. When it finally died after 15 years (the earliest prints are still like new, no fading, +1 for pigment inks!), I got this P400. The print quality is even better than the R800. And this one can do 13" wide which is great. It works perfectly in Windows 10, Ubuntu 16 (default drivers), and TurboPrint (custom proprietary Linux drivers). The ink costs about the same as the R800, though the cartridges are slightly smaller so that makes it slightly more expensive per volume. After about 3 months I've had only 1 minor ink clog cleared by a single cleaning cycle: matte black, which doesn't get used much since I only print photos. It seems about as clog-prone as the R800 was; no better, no worse. Just need to print something every week or two.

The printer produces excellent prints. My only issue has been an inability to turn off the gloss optimizer when not printing photos. The printer setting shows that gloss optimizer is turned off when printing on plain white paper, but it is actually printing based on the display of print cartridge levels. Even when printing on plain white paper with the setting set to off, the gloss optimizer shows a decreasing level. This is causing smearing of the print. I am hoping this issue can be resolved as the printer otherwise completely meets my needs.

How insane to pay $700 for a printer and there is NO way to set it up unless you already have a printer USB cable lying around - my other two printers are completely wireless so we do not own a cable and now I have to wait another two weeks for a cable to arrive. Ridiculous to me that this printer is wifi enabled but to set-up wifi you need a USB cable and it's not included. Just so aggravating, the printer is so expensive, everything you need to set it up should be in the darn box.