Ink carts cost more in absolute dollars, too.Īdditional upside of the P80o LBBB is the immediately obvious one, which is that it handles 17-inch-wide paper instead of 13-inch like the P600.īut as you can see from all this, you might need to think beyond the obvious here. The downside? The P800 is bigger and heavier, harder to site in your home or office, and takes a bigger up-front outlay to buy. Already had that experience with my first inkjet, which had the same 'feature'-don't want to go there again if I can help it.' (They'll be sending it to me when they finish up.)įurther, a friend points out that 'beyond the ink cost, the P600 doesn't have the maintenance cartridge feature of the 3800/3880/P800 and so has its own characteristic failure mode: it will eventually die a messy death by drowning in its own ink when its excess-ink-trapping sponge, or whatever they call it, gets saturated.

For instance, ColorByte Software is still working on ImagePrint 10 for the P600, because they had to reverse-engineer it. Not only that, but Epson considers the P800 a professional product and the P600 a consumer product, and it doesn't provide programming documentation for the P600 to third-party software and peripherals providers. of ink-that's 31 cartridges for the P600 or just over ten cartridges for the LBBB-but, since the P800 comes bundled with more ink to begin with, the price differential is already offset quite a bit just by the ink that comes in the box! (I haven't figured that out exactly, but I'm sure someone, somewhere, has.) That's a huge operational price advantage for the P800 LBBB that will only grow more lopsided the more prints you make. pay for the cost differential between the two printers after purchasing only 809 ml. Not only would the difference of 55¢ per ml. The T850 ink cartridges for the P800 hold 80 ml. Not for nothing are counterpeople taught to say 'Would you like fries with that?') The T760 ink cartridges for the P600 hold 25.9 milliliters of ink, and a full set costs $288. (McDonalds fast-food restuarants do the same thing-everything they serve is priced at cost except fries and soda, both of which have tremendous markups-500% or more in the case of fries. However, as you might know, printer manufacturers basically pass along the printer units for free or even below cost, and then make it up on materials. $1,195 list* for the P800, its little-bit-bigger brother (LBBB)-a difference of $445. However, before we go much further here I need to say a word about the value equation. I've been making mostly small, 7-inch-wide workprints to conserve ink (even though Epson provided the ink! Still).

I'm trying to make at least one print every night so far I haven't been able to stick to anything near that few. It's early days yet, but my experience with the Epson P600 printer is going well.

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