SureColor SC-P700

Product Information

The P700 measures 16.5 by 20.8 by 32.1 inches (HWD) with its trays extended for printing, and it weighs 35.3 pounds. It's less than half that tall and long with its trays closed. That's a 30 percent smaller footprint than the P600.

Photo print quality from the TS6320 is excellent, as you would hope from a modern printer produced by a well-known photography brand like Canon. The colors are vibrant, with perfect saturation, and details are sharp pleasing to the eye. Color accuracy doesn’t quite follow print quality, and you are likely to see colors not quite matching those on your monitor, but the extra inks mean that quality is still better when comparing the HP Envy 6055 vs Canon Pixma TS6320. The P700 replaces the P600, which I reviewed a while ago and found to be capable of very good prints.[ P600 review]. If you’d like an overview of the printer, I’ve made a short video (11 mins) that supplements this review. Though the imagePrograf Pro-300 doesn't support paper rolls, you can still print banners up to 39 inches long.

Product Highlights

A clear panel over the print head allows observation of each print in progress, along with the LCD presenting the image being printed – both welcome features. Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 SP1, Mac OS X v10.11.6 - macOS v10.15, 14 iOS, Android, Windows 10 Mobile I’m printing this example form the Epson print Layout software. I’m using it as a plugin for Photoshop, rather than a standalone application. The printer was also able to find that there was new firmware available, and install it for me. Do remember that this is a pretty much all new printer rather than a new updated model, so expect firmware updates over time. I had four in less than a month. The most obvious difference you’ll notice is print times. An A3+ profiling target took just 3 min 30 seconds to print at the standard setting whilst a version at the very highest quality settings took just over 22 minutes.

Matte papers have Levels 3, 4 and 5 and fine-art media have Levels 4 and 5. As there is a considerable difference in the print times from Level 1 through to Level 5, it’s up to the individual to determine personal preferences in the balance between print times, ink usage and image quality. Quality does improve from Level 1 to Level 5, but for most people a compromise will exist in the mid-quality range. Shorter print times exist with matte and fine-art papers, whereas Level 5 on gloss or lustre paper can take a very long time... like 49 minutes for an A3+ print.The prints above are from when I produced an A3+ profiling target (~3k patches) for Epson TPP paper at each of the 5 print quality options. As well as using Epson profiles for some of their papers, I created quite a few profiles of my own, typically from nearly 3000 patches on an A3+ sheet.

A number of options for using the printer are set from the driver (not the AirPrint version) or front panel.Moving to the Hot Press Bright paper (a smooth matte art paper) at the highest quality setting (Q5), a slight crunch of shadow detail is apparent, but the dmax is a fairly good 1.7 The printer remembers recent choices of type and size, making the setting a bit easier. Custom media sizes That’s 937 ppi (pixels per inch). Should I rescale the image before printing to a more reasonable number?

Paper sizes can be specified as needed, if one of the default sizes won’t do. For myself this most often arises when making panoramic prints, whether from roll paper or some of the panoramic paper sizes now available. Now, I’m putting all of my research and experience into this article, to make it easy for you to find the best photo printer for photographers, so your pictures look as good on the wall as they do on your monitor. If you’re serious about your photography, and intend to produce a lot of very large, extremely high quality photo prints, then the P700 will serve you well, but if you are a more price conscious user, or you are not printing regularly, then a cheaper model, like the Epson Expression Photo HD XP-15000, would suit you better. As an all in one, Epson A4 photo printer, the XP-7100 is a good choice for a family or home printer, particularly if you intend to do a lot of scanning. The automatic document feeder and ability to sheetfeed the scanner means you don’t have to manually switch out papers, or flip them over to scan the other side – the scanner will do it all for you.The paper output path has what are sometimes called ‘Pizza wheels’– none of the prints I made showed any marks from this. That’s not to say they won’t appear on some papers, just not on any I used. I’d note that the only time I’ve ever seen this was years ago with a printer that subsequently proved to have been damaged in transit.