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Epson rebates on P700 and P900, Legacy media

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Epson’s Professional Imaging group is currently offering three mail-in rebate offers through the end of December. All three deals cover purchases through December 31, 2024:

  • $200 rebates on the SureColor P700 (13-inch) and P900 (17-inch) photo printers. This drops the cost of the printers to $629 (P700) and $1,050 (P900).
  • Buy three (3) packages of Epson’s Legacy Media types (Fibre, Platine, Textured, Etching) and get a rebate for the cost of the least expensive product purchased (before taxes).

The rebate forms must be submitted within 30 days of purchase. You can see all of the rebates in Epson’s Rebate Center.

I print all the time on the P900, and it’s been a workhorse for me. For more, see my Epson SureColor P700/P900 review. Hudson and I also love Epson’s Legacy Platine and Legacy Fibre papers — they’re my go-to when creating edition prints for every image in my portfolio.

Amazon links (I receive a small commission if you purchase): P900 | P700

Epson P700/P900 review update

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Over the past year, I had been hearing reports that Epson had quietly fixed some of the paper handling issues I (and others) had run into with early production models of the SureColor P900 and P700 photo printers, and I wanted to see if the rumors were correct. So, in late 2022, I ordered a new P700 and a P900, one from B&H, the other from Amazon. Epson also loaned me a P700 to test as part of this project, so I felt that I had a good sample from multiple sources.

After months of printing hundreds of photos, ranging from 4×6 to 16×20–and through two recent printing workshops where the three printers were in constant use–it is clear that appears to have fixed the paper feed issues, and I have updated my review of the P900 and P700 to account for the fixes. Epson won’t go on the record to say that something in the feed assembly has been fixed, but they have told us in the past that they are “always looking at ways to improve” their products.

With the updates, it is clear that the P900 (17-inch) and the P700 (13-inch) printers provide the best combination of print quality, paper handling and usability found in the dedicated photo printer market today. Canon’s imagePROGRAF PRO-300 (13-inch) and PRO-1000 (17-inch) are each quite good printers, but they feel like last-generation machines compared with the P700/P900 series.

I’m finishing up a more detailed overview of the current photo printer market, but if you’re looking for the best combination of photo print quality and cost today, the P900 is it. Yes, you’ll pay more for it than the P700, but the more-efficient ink costs will pay for the upgrade in a couple of years. The review has all the gory details, of course.

Review: Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-300

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Canon’s imagePROGRAF PRO-300 is a $900, 13-inch desktop photo printer with nine pigment inks. Introduced in mid-2020, not long after Epson’s announcement of the 13-inch SureColor P700 (and the 17-inch P900), the PRO-300 replaces the Pixma PRO-10 at the top of the Canon’s 13-inch photo printer lineup. It boasts a comparable feature set to Epson’s P700, including flexible paper handling, black-and-white and borderless printing, extensive connectivity options and more. After a few months of testing, I can say that it’s a solid printer with excellent print quality for its class. Like most photo printers at this level, there are a few rough edges in places, but overall it’s a good value, and quite competitive with Epson’s offerings.

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Review: Epson SureColor P700 and P900

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Epson SureColor P900

[December 2024: Epson is offering $200 rebates on both the P700 and P900 through the end of the month. See Epson rebates on P700 and P900, Legacy media for links and more.]

[February 2023: This review has been updated, with a new conclusion, based on testing a group of newer SureColor P700 and P900 models. You can find out specifics on why here.]

Epson bills their SureColor P700 and P900 printers as models that can create “exhibition quality” photographic prints, and that is most certainly true: the quality of the prints that they can produce is second to none in the sub-$1500 market. Replacing two five-year-old models, the SureColor P600 and P800 respectively, the new printers have some important enhancements, including a new inkset that expands the printers’ gamut; enhanced blacks when printing on glossy and other photo papers; and the removal of the decades-old reliance of using a single black-ink channel to switch between photo and fine art media. The new printers are also small and light, which should make photographers with tight workspaces happy. All in all, the P700/P900 represent the pinnacle of desktop-based photo printing that is available today.

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