Epson Stylus Pro 4880 Printer K3 Edition
A new standard in A2+/17" colour and black & white production printing
Discover the highest quality printing from Epson 8-colour UltraChrome™ K3 ink with Vivid Magenta technology. Bring photography, fine art and proofing alive with perfect image reproduction, stability and consistency.
Produce the highest level of print quality and reliability with Epson’s latest ink technologies and improved image processing. Create repeatable, photo realistic images that last with Epson UltraChrome K3 ink with Vivid Magenta technology and three black inks.
Set new standards on a range of media with improved tonal gradation, virtually no metamerism and minimum gloss differential. In addition enhance your productivity with high speeds, new drivers and simple control.
Key Features
Advanced MicroPiezo® AMC™ Print Head Technology
Epson understands that superior image quality, speed, performance, and reliability are all equally important. Found exclusively within Epson printers, our new MicroPiezo® AMC™ print head, Variable sized dot technology, and Active Meniscus Control (AMC™) technology combine to deliver unprecedented image quality, iron-clad reliability, and faster print speeds. Unlike thermal-type print heads that use heat to spray droplets onto a page, Micropiezo® print heads use electrical pulses that place smaller ink droplets onto a page. This increased precision eliminates uncontrolled ink spray that leads to non-photographic overspray or “satellites” associated with thermal technology. MicroPiezo print heads produce higher resolution, smaller dot sizes, and more precise dot shapes and dot placement than thermal technology. The result? Amazing print quality that thermal technology can’t match. Furthermore, MicroPiezo print heads are designed to last for the life of your printer.
Features & Benefits:
- Print head design handles 8 seperate ink channels
- One-inch wide, high performance print head with 180 nozzles per channel
- Cutting-edge ink repelling coating dramatically reduces nozzle clogging
- Designed to last for life of printer
- Produces variable-sized droplets as small as 3.5 picoliters to greatly decrease print times while optimizing photographic quality
- AMC™ technology precisely controls the curvature of every ink droplet within each nozzle before releasing it onto the media for extreme precision and accuracy
Epson UltraChrome™ K3 with Vivid Magenta Ink
Epson UltraChrome™ K3 is an acclaimed 8-color pigment-based professional ink set rapidly setting new standards in the professional printing industry. Now enhanced with our revolutionary new Vivid Magenta pigments, our newest-generation ink technology is ready to redefine the possibilities for professional color and black and white prints.
Features & Benefits:
Eight-Color Pigment-Based Ink System with Vivid Magenta:
- Breakthrough new pigment chemistry developed by Epson chemists
- Uses newer high-density form of magenta pigments for an extremely wide color gamut - especially blues and purples
- Includes newer form of Epson Microcrystal Encapulation™ technology for reduced gloss differential
- Professional print permanence ratings for truly sellable quality prints
- Superior scratch resistance from improved pigment and resin chemistry
- Color stability immediately after printing - no short term color shifting
- Improves overall black density for significantly richer blacks up to 2.55 Dmax (L* value of 2.90)
- Superior color and clarity with an almost three-demensional look that far exceeds what a traditional color silver halide photograph can produce
Three-Level Black Ink Technology:
- Simultaneously used Black, Light Black, and Light Light Black inks
- Significantly improved printer's gray balance while eliminating color casts
- Impressive midtones and highlights for smoother tonal range
- Virtually eliminates metamerism and bronzing
- Enhances ICC profiling process for ColorSync™ and ICM™ workflows
Epson AccuPhoto™ HD Screening Technology
Epson’s breakthrough AccuPhoto™ HD screening technology uses a radical new algorithm for determining dot placement, resulting in exceptional photographic image quality. Its ability to compensate for various ink densities between resolutions enables a single ICC profile to be used per media type.
Features & Benefits:
- Advanced screening algorithim resulting in prints with superior color and clarity
- Maximum resolution of 2880 x 1440 dpi for incredibly sharp text and line art
- Extremely accurate fine blends and photographic transitions
- Highly precise screening technology uses a radical new algorithm for determining dot placement, resulting in exceptional photographic image quality
- Produces extremely fine photographic prints, even in bi-directional and lower resolution print modes
Advanced Black-and-White Printing Technology
The Advanced Black and White Printing mode is a unique Epson screening and color management technology developed to produce darkroom-quality black and white prints from either color or grayscale files. This unique driver takes full advantage of the three-level black technology to produce professional black-and-white prints from color or grayscale image files.
Features & Benefits:
- Includes unique screening technology developed specifically for black-and-white printing
- Creates truly consistent images with no color crossover or color cast
- Produces high-quality sellable neutral or toned black and white prints from a single ink set
Two User-Exchangeable Black Ink Modes
Epson UltraChrome™ K3 ink and UltraChrome™ K3 with Vivid Magenta ink use 2 different black ink modes to optimize black ink density for various media types. The standard Photo Black ink mode can be used for any media type with professional results. However, for certain Epson media types such as Velvet Fine Art, Enhanced Matte, and UltraSmooth Fine Art, using the optional Matte Black ink mode dramatically increases black optical density for even better print quality.
Features & Benefits:
- 2 specific user-exchangeable black ink modes - Photo Black and Matte Black
- Optimizes black ink density for various media types dramatically improving final print quality
- Enables use of just one printer for all media types
Superior Connectivity
- Standard ports include one high speed USB 2.0 and one 10/100 BaseT Ethernet
- Standard professional Epson drivers for Macintosh and Windows
Professional Media Handling
- Prints on virtually any media type, in roll or cut sheet, from letter up to 17-inches wide
- Built-in high-capacity paper tray handling up to 250 sheets of plain letter-sized paper or up to 50 sheets of photographic media up to 17 x 22
- Supports printing on both sides of media without damaging previously printed side
- User-adjustable Roll Media Spindle accepts either 2-inch or 3-inch media cores
- Four built-in media paths including roll feed, cut-sheet tray, front-top manual feed, and a straight-through front manual feed for handling up to 1.5mm thick media
- Built-in automatic media cutter
Intelligent High-Capacity Ink System
- Eight individual 110ml (fill vol.) or 220ml ink cartridges
- Greatly increases productivity by allowing replacement of ink cartridges on the fly, even during the middle of a print job
- Utilizes both 110ml and 220ml ink cartridges simultaneously to optimize ink usage
Automatic Print Head Alignment
Automatic Print Head Alignment comes standard on all Epson Stylus Pro printers. The built-in sensor technology inside the printer provides unmatched accuracy and automates the process for increased convenience.
Features & Benefits
- Build-in sensor reads printed data for highly precise alignments of all color channels
- Aligns both single and bi-directional print modes
True BorderFree™ Printing
- Capable of printing off both left and right edges of roll based media, while automatically cutting top and bottom edges to produce a full-bleed print on all four sides
- Fully trims finished prints accurately and safely
High Performance Engine Speeds
Utilizing our latest high-performance print head technology, the SP4880 is among the fastest professional desktop printers in the industry
Print Mode
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8 x 10
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11 x 14
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16 x 20
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| Fine - 720 dpi HS |
1:18 |
2:27 |
4:07 |
| SuperFine - 1440 dpi HS |
2:00 |
3:25 |
6:07 |
| SuperFine - 1440 dpi |
3:17 |
5:35 |
9:46 |
| SuperPhoto - 2880 dpi HS |
3:54 |
6:35 |
11:40 |
| SuperPhoto - 2880 dpi |
6:25 |
10:55 |
18:57 |
HS = High-Speed Print Mode (Bi-directional Print Mode) | Print speeds are shown in min:sec.
Based upon print engine speed only. Total throughput times depend upon front-end RIP, file size, printer resolution, ink coverage, networking, etc.
Epson PreciseColor™ Manufacturing
Epson PreciseColor Manufacturing brings a new level of consistency to the printing process. Through this enhanced manufacturing process that includes colorimetric calibration, Epson ensures that individual printers of the same model produce prints that are indistinguishable from each other.
Features & Benefits:
- Ensures consistent printing between multiple Epson Stylus Pro printers of the same model
- Eliminates the need for internal calibration devices
- Evaluates and adjusts each printer's performance at the manufacturing stage
- Ensures production of consistent color output from printer to printer
16-bit Printer Drivers
Epson 16-bit printer drivers give our Stylus Pro printers the ability to work in an entirely 16-bit workflow on Apple® Macintosh® OS X operating systems. This highly precise driver technology overcomes previous driver limitations and enables extremely accurate transitions and gradations in the final prints.
Features and Benefits:
- New 16-bit driver technology for maximum image quality
- Compatible with Apple Macintosh OS X operating systems
- Takes full advantage of Apple's OS X architecture and printing window
- Compatible with virtually any application software for an end-to-end 16-bit workflow
- The ultimate driver solution for use with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom