This is one of the best photo printers you can buy but print costs appear to be high

The Stylus Photo R3000 is Epson's newest A3+ photo printer targeted at professionals and advanced enthusiasts. It accepts nine ink cartridges, has a 2-picoliter minimum ink droplet size, is able to do disc printing, and sports built-in Wi-Fi. Are you tempted?

Superb color; B&W print quality; Ethernet and Wi-Fi connectivity; CD/DVD printing; No manual swapping of black ink cartridges

Loss of ink during black inks switchover; Expensive

It could be a tad faster and I wish the higher-capacity cartridges had brought more of a saving on ink costs. Neverthless, this larger format printer produces really excellent results, delivering photos with rich contrasts, stunning detail levels and beautifully vibrant colours.

Excellent monochrome results; Vivid natural colours; Impressive detail levels; Quiet print engine

Larger capacity ink cartridges don't bring huge savings; Print speeds are a tad sluggish

Epson's high-end photo printers-the ones that are aimed at professional photographers and graphic artists as well as serious amateurs-are universally acknowledged as among the best, so it's no surprise that the Epson Stylus Photo R3000 is an impressive representative of the breed.

Fast; Impressively high-quality photos and graphics; Prints on cut sheets up to 13 by 19 inches; Fine art papers available

Lack of a rated duty cycle makes it unclear how much you can print per month without shortening the printers' useful life

We have the Epson Stylus Photo R3000 A3+ printer in for review, who better to review it than someone who sells prints?

This printer is capable of stunning output and on the B&W output alone I would be tempted to buy it as a replacement for my existing machine when it finally fails; Printing is very quiet and if using the normal photo-papers very fast; Gloss prints are very good for a pigment printer; excellent on...

Head strikes and tramlines when using Traditional Photo Paper with borderless prints are unacceptable; Ink consumption during black cartridge swap seems very high (but I believe in line with earlier Epson A3+ printers; so would probably not be a concern for existing Epson users); I have some...

The R3000 is the follow-up to Epson's highly-rated R2800 large-format printer. It can handle big sheets of up to A3+ in size and uses a total of nine ink cartridges to deliver more professional quality prints. All this technology doesn't come cheap.

Excellent monochrome results; Vivid natural colours; Impressive detail levels; Quiet print engine

Larger capacity ink cartridges don't bring huge savings; Print speeds are a tad sluggish

If you take photography seriously, either as an enthusiastic amateur or in a semi-professional or professional sense, you need a printer which can reproduce colour and greyscale images with high quality.

CD/DVD direct print; Front panel Pictbridge socket; Easy cartridge replacement

No memory card readers; Slow on plain paper; Multiple setups can be fiddly

My friend recommended this printer to me and it clearly surpassed my expectations. His printer is an earlier version of mine. Epson really stepped up the options on this model by adding more ink colors/blacks, larger variety of paper/media to print on including - Canvas, CD/DVD, etc.

Easy to set up and run. After recalibrating my monitor and the printer, this is the first non-professional printer to consistently produce the color fidelity that I require for images processed in Photoshop. I also like the benefits of not having to change ink cartridges frequently.

I was a bit scared about going down the in house printing use, as a pro-photographer i have always sent my images to well know top of the range printing Labs. although i have been happy with the results recent problems with the colour tones have made me want to have more control.The epson 3000 has...

Great Features; Great Picture Quality; Simple Controls; Up and running in minutes

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