Epson Stylus Photo R2000 sucessor [TBA]

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the R2000 went over €150 up in retail price from ~460-480 EUR up to 620 EUR in germany and most of Europe also the delivery time and most of the stocks on most common retailers are depleted plus various rumors I heard both from Druckerchannel Forums and employees in Calumet Photography Stores in Hamburg.

What does it mean? OFF Curse..
after succesfully launching both replacements for the K3 Vivid Printer line in A3 and A2 paper size replacing the SPR3000 with the SC-P600 and the Sylus 3880 Pro with the SC-P800

now it seems to be that Epson will unleash a Gloss Optimizer Printer replacement for the R2000 as well.

First of I all I find the japanese naming very confusing R2400 is called PX-G5500 and the ink set they call it "PX innovation K3" nothing about "UltraChrome" as the trademark was introduced in the rest of the world next the R2880 with updated printhead (gold plating and teflon coating underneath the printhead) they call it PX-5600, also the R2880 introduced vivid magentas still the call their ink set "PX innovation K3" R3000 > PX-5V pretty much the same deal also the ink set is the same.

NOW.. the SureColor P-600 is called SC-PX5V Mark II and now the call the ink set "UltraChrome K3"

so the "glop" Series R800 is called PX-G900 it is LONG EOL (end of life) But behold the tiny miny A4 (letter size) GLOSS Printer AND ITS STILL PROCUDED and avialable in japan as third iteration PX-G930 it lost it "autocutter" ability thou which was included in the package.
R1800 called PX-G5100 R1900 is called PX-G5300 and has 8 Carts installed all the time introduced Orange instead of Red the R2000 is called PX-7V and this is REALLY weird...

It has THE SAME 8-channel printhead BUT Photo black, matte black or blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, red, orange, gloss optimizer you can choose to switch the blue cart for the matte black PLUS the japanese version of the R2000 utlizes BOTH Red and Orange ink ALL THE TIME....
It was released back in 2011 now if you followed so far we now know that Epson added a
"SC-" for the new models "SC-PX7 Mark II" seems to be the logical conclusion for a successor on the japanese market.

I would have loved the ability to do the same with chaning MatteK to Blue on the R2000 plus additional rest..

Does anyone have more insight?

cheers

 

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[martin0reg]

Serhat,
I don't have more insigth - but some more questions regarding the r800.

- why are the printheads so expensive, they cost around 800 usd on aliexpress ?
- I think it was on DC where you once have spoken about a "gold plated" version of the r800, i.e. of the printhead for r800. Have you ever seen an offer to buy this sort of printhead or printer?

BTW I found an option to use the CD feed as a straight front feed for stiff paper, card board or other sort of hard media
http://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/printing-on-watercolour-paper.10344/page-5#post-87505
..but I don't think this could be a main reason to buy this machine from 2004...

 

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the main reason for the "old" DX5 printhead is the usability to convert it to a printhead that is utilized by wide format solvent printers
the old r800 still had a PCB that was accessible without the need of any additional hardware
later epson did encrypt the PCBs to ensure that retails wont buy r800 printer for a a cheap replacment printhead
the original MIM-PRH-003 printhead for mimaki printer is over 1600€
the printer can sequence up to four printerhead (one printhead for basically one dedicated color)
you can guess how Fast you can print with four aligend printheads