Epson Photo Print
Emelina Gilpin
EPSON Easy Photo Print is a program for use by owners of certain printers manufactured by EPSON.The application interface is straightforward and allows you to print photographs or other images with ease. The program displays a tree of folders on the left side with images that can be printed displayed in the center panel. The wizard interface guides you through setting up the print.When you've selected a photo you'd like to print with Easy Photo Print, you can apply different corrections to the image and adjust the positioning by cropping or rotating the image.Easy Photo Print can also add frames to the image and other creative effects and depending on how many pages you print. Easy Photo Print also allows you to change the paper direction, the type of paper (glossy, matte, etc.) and the quality.Once all of the parameters are set, click the "Print" button inside of Easy Photo Print and the printer will do the rest of the work. We recommend using glossy paper for best results.Features of Easy Photo Print
- Integrates with Dropbox and Facebook.
- Borderless printing: Create vibrant photos with no borders.
- Color Management: Adjust the color balance of photos.
- File Conversion: Convert file types such as PDF and JPEG files.
- Image Adjustment: Enhance and adjust the brightness, contrast and color of your photos.
- Image Cropping: Crop images to frame the subject.
- Image Restoration: Restore old photos with color correction and sharpening tools.
- Layout Adjustment: Rearrange images in a variety of layouts.
- Layout Printing: Print multiple photos on one page.
- Online Printing: Print photos directly from online services like Facebook, Dropbox and more.
- Photo Correction: Automatically enhance photos with one click.
- Photo Effects: Apply special effects to photos.
- Photo Enhancement: Automatically corrects color, lighting and levels.
- Printing Profiles: Create custom profiles to save time on future prints.
- Redeye Removal: Remove redeye from photos.
- Text Enhancement: Add text to photos for creative expressions.
When I bought my D90, I got a free Epson R280 photo printer as part of a promotion. It prints 8 1/2" x 11" on normal paper and also on various sizes of photo paper. It's been really nice until recently, just as I'm wanting to print more photos.
Now, every photo has a set of thin vertical black lines 1" apart from one another. I've changed the ink cartridges and followed the instructions on Epson's website to clean and align the print head to no avail.
What do people recommend for printing photos? I'd like to be able to print some myself, at least 4x6s and 5x7s. For framable or bigger prints, is it better to use one of the on-line printing services?
Is it possible to fix this Epson printer? Should I just retire it to non-photo applications? I have a small HP printer (A626) that will do 4x6s and 5x7s. I could dig that out of the closet. Maybe I should get a networked printer for normal paper applications, use the HP for 4x6s and 5x7s, and use a website for bigger prints? Or can somebody recommend a good longterm printer that will do 8x10s?
The main problem with your printer Alan, is that it has the word "Epson" on the front. Anyway, this fault sounds like the transport rollers or pinwheels have got ink on them. Lift the lid and look for some thin metal spiked wheels after the print head runner. Clean these with some damp tissue while rotating them and then clean away the bits of tissue that'll have torn off on the sharp teeth using an old toothbrush. While you're in there, give the broad rubber or plastic rollers between the toothed wheels a good clean too.
Epson's default ink-guzzle setting is "kill", and you need to knock it down to "stun". I'm kidding, but you'll probably need to play with the colour intensity settings in the printer driver to stop ink flooding all over the paper and then rubbing off on the transport rollers.
Kodak made a model 1400 printer which I use. Olympus also makes one. And there are others. Although the problem them is the cost - the print price is more expensive than lab prints (for 8 x 10s). But that is the price you pay for convenience.
Another former Epson owner who has switched to a Canon inkjet, and is very happy with it. When the Epson worked it produced really excellent prints. But there were endless problems with clogged print heads. The Canon consumes less ink and the heads seem more durable.
Rodeo Joe -- thanks. I tried that but it didn't solve the problem. The rollers you mention would make vertical lines. I'm getting horizontal lines (for a 4x6 looked at in portrait mode the way it comes out of the printer).
Sounds like the solution is to replace this printer with another, probably a Canon. As the main cost factor is ink, not the printer, are there any recommendations on which printer has the lowest per print cost? I think I saw something about more expensive printers having 4x larger ink containers at only 2x the cost per ink container.
The Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta is a pure cotton paper with a high gloss finish and fine surface texture. Its brightness is 91, so while not as bright as other papers on this list, it has a natural white color with no optical brighteners.
Photo Rag Baryta is compatible only with inkjet printers. You can purchase it in 25-sheet boxes, rolls, and photo cards. Within the Photo Rag collection, you can also choose metallic, pearl, or satin finishes.
You can purchase these printing papers in reams of 500 sheets or cartons of up to 5,000 sheets. With its versatility and bulk buying options, this paper is excellent for laser printer users who want to print many vivid images at an affordable price.
There are thousands of printer paper options for photo printing to consider, but these are some of the best on the market right now. Here are some quick tips to help you choose which printer paper option is right for you:
The best photo paper will vary depending on the kind of photos or digital images you have. Whether you want professional-quality photography, fine art prints, or simple family photos, you have many paper options.
Remember: beauty is subjective. Some people like glossy photos and others prefer matte. The color and vibrancy of your photos are up to you, so consider several options to ensure you get the best outcome.
my epson XP-960 printer its printing out with blue cast color on all prints including colored and black white photos , i had just re-installed new inks which are not epson inks but worked with before with no issues , funny thing is when i change my printing settings to print in "plain paper" colors come out ok on my black white photos and colored ones but the printing quality is bad with bands or stripes across , when i change the paper quality to either premium glossy or ultra premium photo paper prints come out with a blue cast , on my colored prints all colors are visible/printed but they have a very strong blue tint they look horrible and the black white come out blue , its really strange and i tried printing with several printing papers including epson premium photo paper , kodak and even HP same thing happens , i did do a nozzle check and cleaned the printing head and all comes out good i just feel im wasting printing paper trying to fix this.
The first thing to do is run a nozzle check; Epson is the Mercedes of printers in terms of how often they clog with no obvious signs until you run them hard by doing a large run of photo printing unless you let them sit and it tends to be obvious (especially consumer photo models with LC/LM). On pro models, these often have an LK or LLK cartridge with the Ultrachrome K3 printers which is also a troublesome cartridge as it doesn't get used all the time like LC and LM, and Orange on older pro printers. You can do this from the control panel, or the driver. If it has issues here, the head is either flat-out blocked or one nozzle has a few dead lines and it affects photo printing. It MAY clear up with one cleaning, but it seldom does with Epson. Epson printers cannot sit, they have to be run regularly -- people find out as you did a lot more often than I care to admit! I can adopt a nice Epson photo printer with a clog (read: A REAL 6/7+ color model; LC/LM, LC/LM/LK (midrange older), LC/LM/LK/Orange (older) and LC/LM/Red (newer), 9+ on really nice ones which originally cost thousands. CMYK photo printing is a poor color spectrum retrofit added on as a nature of the way these work meant for Grandma to quickly run family photos but otherwise go to the drug store), unclog it, and run it 2-3 times a week and have a really capable photo printer for %#*@ near free, or even free.
If you have access to it you can sometimes clear these types of clogs with programs like Qimage (Windows)/Qimage One (Mac/Windows), but I get not everyone has access to it; it's expensive ($129/250), and costs more then most people paid for their printers, but I own the software for color-critical prints I need to be perfect because I can have things like profiles for custom papers I may not be able to apply to the Epson or Canon driver, like HP photo paper on a Canon Pixma 6 color without the option on the driver side, as well as better prints (or at least near perfect) because I inherited unused boxes, or it was on clearance. Qimage will generate a unclog page which can sometimes repair the issue but it does a number on your cartridges (however, so does multiple cleanings and a power flush which also tanks the remaining capacity of your waste ink pad so much so Epson says it's a last resort and warns about this!!! I recommend against it). Since you're going to use a lot of ink anyway make it hurt as little as possible. You want to run this at the best level to ensure it clears as much as it can. After that, run another nozzle check. If you can afford something like Qimage, schedule it to run those cleaning pages at least once a week to keep the printer from doing this; I usually need to do it every other day where I am due to humidity on sensitive machines like Epsons WHICH DO NOT LIKE SITTING!
Note: Select all of the colors on an LC/LM equipped Epson to ENSURE they run -- it might not clear those if you do not use a non-photo mode and force it to run them since those tend to only be used with photo printing.