The Epson P600 ink does not fade or lose color, the prints will look great for a long time. Wilhelm Research Institute ran an accelerated print longetivity test on the prints and found that the inks last up to twice as long as previous Epson inks. The P600 ink(UltraChrome HD) is one of the best inks when it comes to longetivity of the colors.
P600 users do not report issues when using the printer. It's reliable and easy to maintain.
The only issue arises when the printer is not used for several weeks, when parts of the printhead can get clogged with ink. This is a well-known problem for inkjet printers and for the P600, it can be fixed via an automatic "head-cleaning cycle".
You can connect the P600 to your PC/laptop using USB, wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi. Wi-fi connection is useful when connecting to several computers. Keep in mind though, that wireless printing can be twice as slow.
The manual paper feed on the P600 can handle sheets up 1.3 millimeter thich sheets. Though for regular printing 1.3 mm is quite excessive, then the thickness is important for example when printing on metal sheets, which can be fun experimenting with.
The P600 has a foldable color LCD display. The display allows you to for example switch between photo and matte prints, check the remaining ink levels to avoid unpleasant surprises, and do maintenance without the assistance of a technician. This will save you a lot of headache.
The 25.9-millilitre ink cartridges cost $32. Therefore, one millilitre of ink costs $1.28. Though some inkjet printers have lower ink costs, then the P600 beats the average. It is much cheaper than the ink of multi-function printers, which can exceed $2 for a millilitre.
The colors are accurate and perfect the images. The printer uses the standard CMY(cyan, magenta, yellow) inks, but also adds Light Cyan, Vivid Magenta, Vivid Light Magenta, Photo Black, Matte Black, Light Black and Light Light Black. Unlike cheaper printers, the P600, using a wide range of colors, can accurately portray details of landscapes, smooth shadows on faces etc.
The printed images are very detailed. According to Wirecutter, the P600 has a nine-color inkset, which can print dots as small as two picoliters, or two trillionths of a liter.
Unlike for office printers, low printing speeds are not essential for photo printers in most cases. But it has to be mentioned that the printer can be very slow. According to Wirecutter, printing a 8-by-10 glossy print with 1440-dpi(dots per inch) resolution took them 3 minutes and 18 seconds via USB. Over Wi-Fi the print took almost 6 minutes.
According to the tests by Toptenreviews, the printer delivers crisp and error free prints for both the smaller 4 x 6 inch photo size and the 8.5 x 11 inch photo size. The colors are accurate and the print is sharp.
According to Toptenreviews the Canon Pro-100 prints 4 x 6 inch photos at an average rate of 97 seconds and full-page photos at 192 seconds. Compared to other photo printers, these speeds are one of the slowest.
You can connect the printer to your computer via USB, Ethernet cable or Wi-Fi. The printer also allows you to print from your camera, smartphone or tablet. Printing from external storage like a USB drive is not available.
The printer uses dye ink and the colors can fade over years, unlike the prints of good-quality inkjet printers. This is a problem when you plan to sell your photos etc.
Red eye, noise reduction, face brightening, contract, hue, saturation enhancements, as well as cropping features are offered straight from the printer.
9600x2400 DPI is the highest setting. DPI stands for 'dots per inch' - it's what is used to measure the resolution of printers. The higher the DPI rating, the crisper the picture will look.
Special paper is required ($15.99 for 10 sheets of semigloss double sided paper) for this feature, but it is offered, which many other printers do not.
Because it lacks certain black inks, some grays are created by mixing the rest of the colors for a cyan-heavy cast. This won't make for good looking shades of gray.
Photo black and matte black ink cartridges will be swapped automatically for best performance for each given paper type. Some other printers make you manually change the black inks - and yet others don't even allow this option.
Two modes are available: the Save Black Ink option (reduces amount of black ink used), as well as the Use Composite mode (mixes the rest of the colors to make black if it runs out). These aren't ideal, and will produce more gray shades than black, but in a pinch can be used to draw out (or replace entirely) the black ink.