FEATURES AND DESIGN
The printer itself is fairly nondescript. When not in use, it’s simply a glossy, textured black rectangular box. The controls are located on the right side of the front-panel, where you’ll find a 2.7-inch color touch screen. This display is used to set up the printer and Wi-Fi, load media and roll paper, check ink levels, and perform maintenance functions such as nozzle checks and printhead cleaning.
No wide-format printer is light in weight or svelte, and the P600 will need a lot of desk space or even a table of its own (it measures 24.2 x 32 x 16.7 inches). At 35 pounds, the weight is manageable and we were able to move and unpack the printer single-handedly.
The P600 has three paper feeds – two of which are located at the rear of the printer. The primary paper tray holds up to 120 sheets of plain paper or 30 sheets of photo paper up to 13 inches wide. The second rear paper feed is used when you want to print on roll paper. There are two paper holders included in the packaging, and these are placed on either end of the paper roll, which it then attached to the printer; a door in the rear-panel opens up to feed the paper, which is activated via the touchscreen.
The third paper feed is exposed when you pull down the front-panel, which also exposes the output tray. This single-sheet feeder is for heavier art and specialty papers. It is also where you feed the included tray used for printing on printable optical media (blank CDs and DVDs).
The nine 25.9ml UltraChrome HD pigment-based inks include Photo Black, Matte Black, Light Black, Light Light Black (yes, there are two “lights”), Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Light Cyan, and Light Magenta. This wide range of ink colors gives the P600 an excellent color gamut.
The printer automatically switches between the Photo Black and Matte Black depending upon what driver and paper settings are used. Prices for the inks are $32 each (retail price). With specialty photo printers, it’s difficult to estimate yields because it depends on how many of prints of differing sizes and what the images are, and that varies from user to user. An average 8 x 10 is going to cost between $1 and $2 per print, and a 13 x 17 inch print can average from about $3 and up, depending on the paper being used. Since there are nine cartridges to replace, cost for supplies will add up over time.
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