a blog by Peter Leonard
Back in June, Epson sent me their largest inkjet printer that doesn’t come with it’s own furniture stand: the Stylus Photo 4880. I had won this monster inkjet device in a freak raffle accident up in Vancouver, during Epson’s Printer Academy training workshop, during which a bunch of people interested in digital photography hung out at the new convention center and admired the nearby scenery:
It ended up being delivered right before I left for Europe, so I had to wait till now to unpack it. This involved removing a whole wooden pallet from the base and dealing with a box so big it dwarfed my dining-room table:
There’s quite a bunch packed inside — the ink cartridges it ships with alone would cost $1,000 to replace!
Aside from lucky contest winners, most people who get this printer intended to share it with a larger workgroup on a local network:
As the printer works on media up to 17” wide, most users will also use roll paper with the built-in cutter. Slightly nervous about a printer with a robot-operated razor blade, but we’ll see. The big thing at the back can handle rolls nearly heavier than I can lift:
The leather manual is quite a bit thicker than the one that explains the car I drive:
All in all, couldn’t ask for a better toy to print out pictures from this summer on. Thanks, Epson!