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Epson Stylus Pro 4800 Professional Edition Wide Format Inkjet Printer

Technology. Performance. Value.

At Epson, our goal to create the highest-performing printing technologies for professionals has resulted in a unique combination of performance and value — introducing the Epson Stylus Pro 4800 Professional Edition.

Combining the award-winning Epson Stylus Pro 4800 printer, utilizing our latest Epson UltraChrome K3™ Ink Technology, with our high-speed 10/100 BaseT internal Ethernet card along with a custom-designed PostScript® Language Level 3 Compatible RIP from ColorBurst®, the Epson Stylus Pro 4800 Professional Edition represents a complete printing solution for the most demanding creative professional.

Never before has such an offering been available. Imagine producing color accurate prints — even during the earliest stages of your design workflow — allowing you to accurately set expectations for both yourself and your clients. And when you're ready to produce contract-quality prints for final approval, you'll be able to produce them in-house, saving you valuable time and money.

Whether you're a graphic designer looking for a better way to communicate your ideas to others, a prepress professional implementing contract-quality proofing locally or remotely, or a professional photographer that wants the best print quality possible, the all-new Epson Stylus Pro 4800 Professional Edition combines innovative technology with extraordinary performance and value.

Suggested Retail: $2,495.00

Features & Benefits

• Professional media handling up to 17" wide
• Epson UtraChrome K3 Ink Technology for brilliant, accurate, and stable color prints

• High performance Internal 10/100 BaseT Ethernet for simple installation on your network
• Fully compatible with Macintosh® OS X (Panther and Tiger) and Windows® XP
• Compatible with Apple® Rendezvous/Bonjour technology
• Built-in web page for complete setup and administration

• PostScript Language Level 3 compatible software RIP server with both Macintosh OS X (Panther and Tiger) and Windows XP versions standard
• SWOP® Certified for the Epson proofing media line when using the supplied SWOP printing environment
• PANTONE® Licensed to include the Coated and Uncoated library
• Professional Color Management Technology, including separate Input ICC profiles for RGB, CMYK, and Grayscale images
• Ink Limiting Technology with CMYK curve adjustments for complete control of color
• Built-in Printer Linearization Technology to ensure accurate color across multiple printers
• Easy-to-use RIP Server Interface
• Professional Job Management to handle any workflow your network can produce
• Print directly from any software application or drag-and-drop into a Hot Folder
• And much more!

• Free one-year of limited warranty coverage under the Epson Preferred^SM Protection Plan with toll-free telephone support and usually next-business-day full unit exchange
• Warranty plan covers all hardware and software (including ColorBurst RIP) for the best possible support — directly from Epson

• Epson Stylus Pro 4800 Professional Edition is only $2,495 estimated street price

• Print head design capable of handling eight separate ink channels
• 1-inch wide high-performance print head with 180 nozzles per channel

• Incredibly sharp text and line art
• Extremely fine blends and photographic transitions

• Produces variable-sized droplets as small as 3.5 picoliter to greatly decrease print times while optimizing photographic quality
• Proprietary Active Meniscus Control (AMC) technology precisely controls the curvature of every ink droplet within each nozzle before releasing it onto the media. The result is extremely sharp and accurate placement of ink droplets for outstanding photographic print quality.

• In order to ensure consistent printing between multiple Epson Stylus Pro printers of the same model, Epson has enhanced the production process to include colorimetric calibration. This system evaluates and adjusts each printer's difference at the manufacturing stage, assuring you of consistent color output from printer to printer.

• Built-in sensor reads printed data for highly precise alignments of all color channels
• Aligns both single and bi-directional print modes.

• Built-in sensor reads nozzle check pattern and automatically cleans print head if any problems are found — even partially clogged nozzles

• High-density pigments for an extremely wide color gamut
• Professional print permanence ratings for truly sellable quality prints
• High-gloss Microcrystal Encapsulation™ Technology for reduced gloss differential
• Superior scratch resistance from improved pigment and resin chemistry
• Color is stable immediately after printing — no short-term color shifting
• Depending upon media — produces a black density up to 2.3 with an L* value of 4.1*

New Three-Level Black Ink Technology

• Simultaneously uses Black, Light Black, and Light Light Black inks
• Significantly improves the printer's gray balance while eliminating color casts
• Impressive midtones and highlights for a smoother tonal range
• Virtually eliminates the metamerism and bronzing of basic pigment chemistry
• Enhances the ICC profiling process for ColorSync™ and ICM™ workflows.

• Unique driver technology taking full advantage of our three-level black system to produce professional black and white prints from color or grayscale image files
• Proprietary Epson screening technology developed specifically for black and white printing
• Produces a truly consistent image with no color crossover or color cast
• Produces sellable quality neutral and toned black and white prints from a single ink set.

• Printer can utilize two different black ink modes — Photo Black or Matte Black. This innovative solution optimizes the black ink density for various media types, dramatically improving the final print quality.
• The standard Photo Black ink mode can be used for any media type with professional results. However, for certain Epson media types such as Velvet Fine Art, Enhanced Matte, and UltraSmooth Fine Art, using the optional Matte Black ink mode instead, will dramatically increase your black optical density for even better print quality.

• Prints on virtually any media type, in roll or cut sheet, from letter up to 17" wide
• Built-in high-capacity paper tray handling up to 250 sheets of plain letter-sized paper or up to 50 sheets of photographic media up to 17" x 22"
• Supports printing on both sides of the media without damaging the previously printed side
• User-adjustable Roll Media Spindle accepts either 2" or 3" media cores
• Four built-in media paths including roll feed, cut-sheet tray, front-top manual feed, and a straight-through front manual feed handling weights up to 1.5mm thick posterboard
• Built-in automatic media cutter.

The Epson Stylus Pro 4800 utilizes our latest print head technology — making it one of the fastest printers ever made by Epson. The following table represents the highest quality print modes for three popular print sizes.

• Fine — 720 dpi HS produces an 8" x 10" in 1:28, 11" x 14" in 2:27, 16" x 20" in 4:07
• SuperFine — 1440 dpi HS produces an 8" x 10" in 2:00, 11" x 14" in 3:25, 16" x 20" in 6:07
• SuperFine — 1440 dpi produces an 8" x 10" in 3:17, 11" x 14" in 5:35, 16" x 20" in 9:46
• SuperPhoto — 2880 dpi HS produces an 8" x 10" in 3:54, 11" x 14" in 6:35, 16" x 20" in 11:40
• SuperPhoto — 2880 dpi produces an 8" x 10" in 6:25, 11" x 14" in 10:55, 16" x 20" in 18:57.

• Eight individual 110ml or 220ml ink cartridges
• Greatly increases productivity by allowing you to replace ink cartridges on the fly, even during the middle of a print job <li> Utilizes both 110ml and 220ml ink cartridges simultaneously to optimize ink usage.

• Built-in printer memory tracks key print job statistics, such as ink and media usage, remaining media, data file names, user names, print times, and more
• Reports can be download from printer memory or printed.

• Includes one USB 2.0, one IEEE 1394 (FireWire®) and one Epson Expansion Slot for installing the 10/100 BaseT Ethernet card (Ethernet included with Pro Edition bundle)
• Professional Epson Photographic Drivers for Macintosh. and Windows.
• PANTONE® licensed and SWOP® certified PostScript® Language Level 3 Compatible RIP by ColorBurst®. (included only with Pro Edition bundle)
• Fully supported by most leading third party RIPs and workflows — the Epson Stylus Pro series printers are used within the most demanding commercial printing environments.

• Free one-year of limited warranty coverage under the Epson Preferred^SM Protection Plan with toll-free telephone support available Monday through Friday and usually next-business-day full unit exchange service
• Optional one or two-year Epson Preferred Plus Service plans available.

Technical Specifications

Printing Method

• 8-Channel Print Head Technology
• 8-Color (C, Lc, M, Lm, Y, Lk, LLk + PK or MK) pigment based ink
• Variable-Sized Droplet Micro Piezo drop-on-demand ink jet with AMC™ technology

Nozzle Configuration

• Color and Monochrome heads: 180 nozzles x 8

Epson Ink Technology

• Epson UltraChrome K3™ Ink Technology

Droplet Technology

• Smallest droplet size: 3.5 picoliter
• Variable Droplet Technology can produce up to three different sizes per print line

Resolution

• 2880 x 1440 dpi; 1440 x 720 dpi; 720 x 720 dpi;
  720 x 360 dpi; 360 x 360 dpi; 360 x 180 dpi

Print Engine Speed

• 8" x 10" prints from 50 secs to 6:25 – Normal is 3:17¹
• 11" x 14" prints from 1:44 to 10:55 – Normal is 5:35¹
• 16" x 20" prints from 4:07 to 18:57 – Normal is 9:46¹

Acoustic Noise Level

• Approximately 50 dB(A) according to ISO 7779

Printer Language / Drivers

• Epson ESC/P2 raster photographic drivers standard
• PANTONE. licensed and SWOP. certified PostScript. Language Level 3™ Compatible RIP by ColorBurst. (included only with Pro Edition bundle)
• Supported by most leading third-party RIPs and workflows

Operating Systems Supported

• Macintosh. Panther 10.3.9 or higher, Tiger 10.4 or higher
• Windows. 2000 or XP (Pro or Home Edition)

Printer Interfaces

• Includes one USB (1.1 and 2.0 compatible), one IEEE1394 FireWire® and one Epson Expansion Slot used for installing the internal 10/100 BaseT Ethernet card (Ethernet included in Pro Edition Bundle)

Physical Dimensions

• 34"(W) x 14"(H) x 30"(D)
• Printer weight: 83.7 lb

BorderFree Printing

• Left and right borderless “bleed” printing for the following roll media widths:
  8.3", 10", 12", 13", 14", 16", 17"
• Top and bottom edges can be automatically cut to any length three different ways during printing on roll media

Printable Area

• Maximum paper width 17"
• Left and right margins 0 or 3mm each (0.24" total)
• Top and bottom margins 0 to 25mm each
• Maximum printable width 17.16" (full bleed 17" width)
• Maximum printable length Limited by application, operating systen and driver/rip used

Media Input

• Roll media size Single roll up to 17" width
• Roll media length Up to 132' (limited by core dia.)
• Cut sheet input tray size Up to 17" x 22"
• Cut sheet media input Up to 250 sheet tray, top and rear manual feed slots

Media Core Compatibility

• Media core compatibility: Handles both 2" and 3" cored media
• Max. roll media diameter 4" (2" core) or 6" (3" core)

Thickness, Weight

• Weight 12 lb bond up to 1.5 mm posterboard

Media Cutter

• Built-in media cutter: Automatic and manual cutting

Line Accuracy

• + or - 0.2% of specified page length

Ink Cartridge Size

• 110ml or 220ml each color x 8 colors total

Ink Cartridge Life

• Ink cartridge shelf life: 2 years from printed production date or 6 months after open

Lightfastness Ratings

• Epson UltraChrome K3 Ink
• Color: Up to 108 years²
• B&W: Over 200 years²

Temperature

• Operating 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
• Storage -4° to 104° F (-20° to 40° C)

Humidity

• Operating: 20 to 80% relative humidity
• Recommended 40 to 45%
• Storage: 5 to 85% relative humidity (no condensation)

Safety Approvals

• Safety standards: UL1950, CSA 22.2 950 FDA
• EMI FCC Part 15 subpart B class B,
• CSA C108.8 class B
• AS/NZS 3548 class B

Cutter Life

• ~2,000 cuts (coated media)

Maintenance Parts

• Pump unit, flushing box, head cleaner, cap assembly
• First Major Maintenance Interval (number of 8" x 10" prints)
• 720 x 720 dpi 45,000 prints
• 1440 x 720 dpi 29,500 prints
• 2880 x 1440 dpi 15,200 prints
• When printing in uni-directional mode the above numbers are reduced by half

Rated Voltage

• AC120V or (220V to 240V)

Rated Frequency

• 50 to 60 Hz

Rated Current

• 1.0A / 100-120V

Power Consumption

• Approx. 59W (operating)
• <21W (standby)
• < .7W (power off mode)
• Energy Star Compliant

Notes

• ¹ Normal mode based upon SuperFine - 1440 dpi Test results based upon print engine speed only. Total throughput times depend upon front-end RIP, file size, printer resolution, ink coverage, networking, etc.
• ²Ink lightfastness rating based on accelerated testing of prints on specialty media, displayed indoors, under glass. Actual print stability will vary according to media, printed image, display conditions, light intensity, humidity, and atmospheric conditions. Epson does not guarantee longevity of prints. For maximum print life, display all prints under plexi, glass or lamination or properly store them.
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Additional Information

Epson Stylus Pro 4800 Professional Edition Brochure

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