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Epson has launched a new A3+ six-colour photo printer, featuring Claria Photographic Ink for long lasting, borderless premium quality photo prints.

The Stylus Photo 1400 is the successor to Epson’s Stylus Photo 1290s and offers more durable photos, superior image quality and faster printing speeds. It also features six individual ink cartridges, so only the colour that is used needs to be replaced.

Direct printing onto CD and DVD faces is included for personalised archiving and easy identification of CD content. The Stylus Photo 1400 is also supported by an optional EpsonNet Wireless 802.11b/g and 10/100 Base Tx External Print Server. It is an ideal A3+ printer for small and home offices seeking to present professional documents to clients. Designers and illustrators will also benefit from the high-quality and fast print speeds when checking and presenting their designs and illustrations.

The Stylus Photo 1400 is equipped with Epson’s advanced Micro Piezo print head technology that delivers sharp borderless prints from 10x15cm up to A3+. It also incorporates Epson’s improved Advanced Variable-Sized Droplet Technology (Advanced VSDT) which provides more flexible ink droplet sizes and more accurate placement of the droplets. Together with six-colour printing, the result is even more detail where light colour and softer tones are required.

The Stylus Photo 1400 driver also supports Adobe RGB for a wide colour gamut. Additional colour output modes include ‘Epson Vivid’, ideal for presentations and graphs and ‘Epson Standard’ for faithful reproduction of sRGB images. In addition, the Epson Stylus Photo 1400 allows advanced colour management with out-of-the-box ICC profiles for the Epson media range.

Epson PhotoEnhance automatically detects and optimises images according to subject type, for example, portraits, landscapes and sky lines. In addition it analyses and improves skin tones, colour casts or light exposure. The end result is optimum image quality regardless of experience in photo manipulation.

Mark Robinson, Product Manager at Epson UK says, “Epson has developed a new generation of A3+ photo printer to meet the needs of the small office where high-quality output in an affordable package is required. The Stylus Photo 1400 benefits from the superior quality output of Epson Claria Photographic Ink while offering an efficient and affordable solution for bigger prints.”

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