I am looking into purchasing a wide format printer and was hoping that I could get some opinions on which one would be the best purchase. Is there a difference between the R1800 and R1900? Or is there another Epson printer out there that would be an ideal purchase for me and my business. Thanks ahead of time!
The main differences between the 1800 (the old model) and 1900 (the new model) that I have heard is the teflon coated print head (like the 4880 has), prints a little faster and the new chip technology that is suppose to prevent 3rd party inks. If all you want to do is print film positives, why not look at the 1400. It is at least $200 less, prints the same size and only requires 6-channels of ink. Just something to consider. Good Luck.
Thanks for the info, looks like I'm going to check out the 1400!
Don't get a Epson 1400 unless you have a lot of time on your hands to watch the printer print films. I had a r1800 that worked fine until I used bad ink cartridges and ink. It just died on me after only 3 months. Stupid mistake!! Anyway the speed difference between the 1400 and the r1800 is huge. Yesterday I printed out 20- 13x18 films and it took all day. With the r1800 it would take less than half that. True the 1400 costs less but the higher end printers will make the cost up by printing films faster!!!! I heard the r1900 is faster than the r1800!!!! I'll be getting one next week.
sawgrass has developed the sublimation ink for the 1900 and it's great. I bought a 1900 the same week it came on the market and it's the best printer I have ever worked with!! The prints are really photo quality and really quick. It's worth every penny. Also the acurip software works with it!! Try it!!
I have a r1800, wonderfull machine generaly. Not mine at the moment. It has developed an almost permanent phantom paperjam. Sent it to our local epson express service center, who could find nothing wrong with it (after cleaning the rollers), and produced over 30 prints. Got it back, paperjam. Spoke to them over the phone, and because I could print nozle checks they reckon it was corrupt drivers. Went through the usual un-install/restart, downloaded new drivers from epson, it printed about 10 test prints, then developed a paper jam. It would still perform nozzle checks, so I went through it all again. This time it only printed 3 images. Followed this proceedure several times, now it is on permanent paperjam, but will print nozzle checks.
I have used an awfull lot of ink on this, and out of ideas. In an ideal world, I would simply junk the printer and get a new one, but that isn't an option at the moment. Machine is fitted with cis filled with artanium (sawgrass) inks.
Anyone, any ideas at all?
Epson R1800 vs. Epson R1900 
