Epson Releases New Disc Printers
October 12, 2005
Long Beach, CA - Epson has debuted two new six-color photo printers, the Epson Stylus Photo R220 ($99) and R340 ($199). Each lets users print from the centers to the edges of discs.
The Epson Stylus Photo R340 can work from a memory slot instead of a computer and has a 2.4" LCD monitor. According to the company, both of these new printers include some improvements over the previous products, such as better color saturation for brighter reds and yellows and automatic image enhancement for adjusting a photo that is too dark when a subject is backlit.
In addition, both printers can print directly onto the surface of inkjet-printable CDs and DVDs and are now designed print from the center to the edge of the CD or DVD with no visible blank space. Epson says they were the first and still are the only consumer ink jet printer manufacturer in the U.S. to include CD/DVD printing on its printers.
The Epson Stylus Photo R220 is a six-color printer that offers 5760x1440 optimized dpi using ultra fine ink droplets (as small as three picoliters) and Micro Piezo inkjet technology for precision color and detail, according to Epson. Customers can create customized CDs and DVDs with personalized text, graphics, and photos; and with the printer's front-loading tray, it's easy and fast, Epson reports.
The Epson Stylus Photo R340 can speed through photos with its fast photo print speeds, printing a 4" x 6" lab-quality borderless photo in as fast as 57 seconds. The printer also handles text with ease and can produce a black text document at up to 15 ppm, according to the company. With Epson's patented BorderFree photo printing technology, this printer is designed to deliver frame-ready, borderless images with no borders to trim or perforations to tear in all of the popular sizes, including 4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10", and 8.5" x 11".
Other flexible features of the Epson Stylus Photo R340 are the ability to save images easily to an external CD-R, Zip, or Flash memory drive and the option of direct printing from Bluetooth-enabled phones. The Bluetooth adapter is currently available for an estimated street price of $69. This printer is both Macintosh and Windows compatible and offers Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connectivity.
Both the Epson Stylus Photo R220 and R340 utilize Epson's latest color and image enhancements, which the company says result in improved quality of prints. One of these enhancements is better color saturation, resulting in prints that look richer and brighter, according to Epson, and is most noticeable in photos with a large amount of yellow and red in them.
Another improvement on the printers, Epson says, is the ability to automatically detect when a photo is too dark such as a photo that contains a subject with a bright background behind it. Normally, in this case, the subject would be dark with the background showing up bright. With the Epson Stylus Photo R220 and R340, the subject will be adjusted and brightened. The sompany says that this automatic image enhancement feature will correct a photo that most customers would otherwise delete or choose not to print.
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