One of my biggest hobbies is travel, and of course I also like to hold a camera on the go. Especially in recent times, I have been traveling for more than a week each time, and I have taken more than 4,000 photos each time. Shooting more, on the computer to see more and more unsatisfied, once saw a net red photographer's sentence, the effect is to say that "the ultimate goal of photography should all be washed out, otherwise there is no meaning" I deeply believe in this sentence. Can print their own travel stamps, decorated as a photo wall, satisfaction and sense of accomplishment is bound to burst, of course, bragging also has a good material. So buying a printer naturally puts my schedule of defeat.
I always think: Whatever you want to buy first is what you really need. For me, the demand is very clear - travel photo printing and some daily light work, such as ID photo printing and simple text printing, printed photos can be installed in the photo frame to do photo wall and single decoration. Therefore, there are certain requirements for color print quality and print format.
Before I bought a printer, I also considered network printing, such as "Netease's Impressionist", and the cost of 6-inch printing varies according to the selected photo paper, between 0.55-0.65 (express courier costs). However, considering that the flexibility of network printing is poor, it is not always possible to fight and play, and the effect of photo verification cannot be adjusted at any time (there is also a strong interest in the post-processing of photos). In short, the restrictions are more and the flexibility is poor. It is only suitable for large Batch printing. So first I excluded network printing.
In fact, as a digital fanatic, a curious person, there is always a small devil to buy a toy to play, of course, this reason is not to report to the Queen. However, network printing also has its advantages. For example, it is very suitable for special printing such as photo books. I once printed many travel photo books at Mimo India.
At first sight is the Canon CP series that has been hot, its print quality is still good from a lot of evaluation point of view, but from my needs, we should also focus on its print costs and print format. The CP series uses an integrated cartridge and paper package. There is no third-party compatible product. The 6-inch photo paper RP-108 costs about 199 yuan and 108 sheets, and the average printing cost is about 1.84 yuan per sheet. This is much more expensive than online printing and street print shops. And the CP series maximum print size stops at 6 inches, while the photo wall set of photo frames on the market needs more than 7 inches to 10 inches, taking into account the white space around the photo, 6-inch photos can also meet 7 inches The demand for photo frames, but the demand for 10-inch photos CP1200 is powerless.
So I have been hesitant to buy CP series, from CP910 has been holding money until CP1200. And another advantage of the CP series is that it is portable. I once saw a local CP910 player in the sea temple temple in Bali. It was a racket and it was really convenient. But this advantage has no effect on me. I don't have the need for mobile printing, and I'm certainly not willing to pay extra for this.
Four-color ink cartridge
Six-color ink cartridge, it is clear that the photo effect must be better
So while hesitant, my eyes went to the inkjet printer. Inkjet printing I mainly focus on two indicators, one is the ink addition method, one is a few colors of ink composition. As for the resolution of the printer, the resolution of home printers is not much different, and they can meet the requirements of 10 inch or so photos.
Early ink-jet printers were basically cartridge-type printers, which originated from the printer manufacturers' parts of the perpetual money-making logic. The printers are relatively cheap to sell, but the cartridges that need to be used are very expensive to sell, often appearing 2 to 3 times. The ink cartridge can buy a printer again.
Third-party continuous ink supply system must be opened on the printer to install
However, the power of the masses is endless, and a third-party compatible continuous ink supply system has quickly emerged. That is, an ink tank is set outside the printer. After the ink is used up, only the third-party ink is added to the ink tank. Greatly reduce the cost, but the side effects are not small, it is easy to cause printing failures. Of the CISS systems, the printer giants were of course not happy. They soon began adding crypto chips to the original ink cartridges, but the chips were quickly cracked or bypassed, then they were encrypted and then cracked.... In short, The War of the Magic trail was staged and the poor users stared at the theater while watching the show. They also lamented that "using a printer is so troublesome." Fortunately, this fight has finally eased up. The major printer giants, Canon, Epson, and others have all introduced ink cartridge printers, which is equivalent to the official ink supply system. This type of printer can also be used after the ink is used up. Add it at will, greatly reducing costs.
The first choice for ink jet printing is Canon's MG7780. The media has a good reputation. It is an all-in-one, A4 format, with scanning, copying, wireless printing, cloud printing, and even supports NFC printing and optical disc printing. These functions can meet the needs of my light office, so instead of focusing on the study. According to my needs, the main factors that affect my choice are two points, the method of adding ink and the number of cartridges. The 7780 uses a 6-color ink cartridge, which prints better than the usual 4 colors, but its six colors are not really six colors. Two of them are black, but one is dedicated to text printing and the other is dedicated to photos. Print, so it is actually a five-color print. And consumables replacement costs are high, each time you change a set of original ink cartridges to about 700 yuan - half the printer's money, the typical affordability can not afford. Of course, it can also change the third party's continuous ink supply, but I have always had considerable doubts about the failure rate.
In the ongoing investigation, Epson's L455 entered my field of vision. The same machine, with scanning, copying, wireless printing, cloud printing and other functions, the largest print format for the A4, can basically meet my functional requirements and format printing needs. The same media reputation is also good, the key is it ink cartridge type ink supply, can easily add compatible ink.
Because it is poor, it is necessary to plan carefully
The price of compatible ink is 70 yuan/set, even if the original ink price is only more than 300 sets, the cost is much lower than MG7580. If according to its official nominal printable 6500 color documents at a cost of 4 points and 3 points, if the color coverage rate is 5%, then the color photos will be printed at 100% coverage, and about 325 colored photos of A4 format can be printed. , about equivalent to 1300 photos six inches, each six-inch photo ink costs about 2 hair 1 points, plus Kodak six-inch photo paper every 2 hair 5 points, the final cost of each six-inch photo less than 5 hairs. If you use ordinary domestic photo paper costs will be much lower. Of course, this calculation method is extremely rigorous and does not consider the difference between the amount of ink sucked on the printing paper and the photo paper. The actual final cost is known only when used by oneself, and the actual number of prints is likely to be much lower than this calculated value. However, the ink cartridge type must be the lowest cost solution for home printing.
Still hesitant to meet the demand
Now, the only thing that makes me worry is that the L455, as a four-color all-in-one machine, is responsible for home office. How does the photo printing effect of the L455? Can it satisfy my main requirement for outputting photos? But search across the entire network, Aunt Zhang did not test out of the box, the online can not find a detailed photo print experience instructions, and some are only good news media evaluation. Even if JD.com’s purchase evaluations were read out one by one, the final conclusion was still not obtained.
After a long period of hesitation, he finally decided to eat a crab and take advantage of the 618 activities. The price was relatively favorable. No matter how good or bad he was, he would start with a heart. The worst of them is still able to dry a single sheet on Aunt Zhang.
Second, the L455 multifunction machine unpacking and initialization settings 
EPSON Epson L455 All-in-one Unpacking
In the Jingdong orders, the next day arrived, Jingdong's transport packaging is in the original color packaging plus a cardboard box. The main features of the printer are introduced on the outer packaging, highlighting that this is an ink tank type one machine.
The contents of the package are simple: the printer body, four bottles of sealed plastic vacuum bag, a USB print cable, a set of instructions, and a Windows driver CD. However, when the blue ink was taken, the plastic bag was not vacuumed, but it did not affect the use of the latter.
After removing the hand, first remove the blue plastic tape and other protective materials, according to the instructions, the ink tank will be pulled up first, then fall to the outside, open the ink tank cover.
Now add ink, unscrew the ink bottle cap, tear off the inside seal, and screw the cap back. Unscrew the ink tank plug of the corresponding color and inject the ink from the ink tank into the ink tank. There are left and right two winglets at the mouth of the ink bottle to hold the ink bottle mouth in the proper position. When ink is added, it is not necessary to hold the ink bottle. You only need to squeeze it and stop it to quickly inject the ink. But the whole process needs to be very careful, otherwise it is easy to spill the ink out. The first bottle was very careful and perfect when I installed it, but behind it, the blue ink was scattered immediately. Fortunately, it does not affect the use.
After filling the ink, you can power on, L455 has a very small color LCD screen can display the menu, licensed boot the default selection of Chinese menu, the first time to open the opportunity to prompt the need to initialize ink, takes about 20 minutes.
After the ink is printed, the wireless network of the printer needs to be set. Although the L455 supports wired printing, the position of the wired printer is limited, and the average user will use wireless printing. Use the printer's LCD screen to directly set WIFI, find the WiFi menu, and then automatically search for WIFI after entering. Follow the prompts to enter the password using the function area button. Note that the password is case-sensitive. After the WiFi connection, the printer setup is almost complete.
Although the machine comes with a driver CD, many computers now have no optical drive, so I still install the driver directly on the Internet. In the Chinese official website of Epson, select the "Service Support" page, select L455, you can find the L455 integrated driver package in the "Application Software and Firmware", do not have to download the driver and application separately, directly use this WEB integrated installation package All programs can be installed automatically, including automatic firmware updates to the printer.
After selecting the WEB installation package, it will automatically download the software, automatically find the networked printer, and automatically set it up, and prompt to print a test page. The software then detects the printer firmware and upgrades can upgrade the firmware. The firmware can be downloaded automatically. It is common sense that you cannot power off during the update process. The firmware is updated in about 5 minutes.
Afterwards, the software will automatically list the available printer software for installation. You can choose to install it according to your own needs, or simply try it out and install it again.
Apple's software installation is similar to that of Windows. It is also recommended to download the web version of the official website driver. It can automatically download software and firmware and install it. This will not be repeated here. After the installation is complete, you can try the printer for printing.
When using Epson's Easy Photo printing software, the software will automatically list the supported typesetting patterns such as “3mm Marginâ€, “Indexâ€, “4 in 1â€, “Identity Shotâ€, etc. according to the size of the paper being used. The layout can also be manually adjusted to facilitate selective cutting for use in combination with the application. It has not yet been found how to allow it to support borderless printing. Since my main purpose is to print photos used in photo walls, I chose the smallest margin and the highest quality.
In the case of no screen color correction or software color correction at all, from the simple contrast of screen shot and print, the colors of the printed photos are darker, and the color brightness or brightness is not the same as the screen height (the actual printing effect). Better than the remake of the text.) But on the whole, the quality of the L455 print is acceptable, I can use it in a photo wall, and the Queen is satisfied. I also said, "I have finally lost my breath." "Of course," my massive travel photos have finally got new uses.
All in all, as a low-cost photo printing solution for home use, the L455 printers of this grade are basically qualified, and they can meet the output requirements of A4 size or 10 inch photos. I hope this experience and the bill will give you some help.
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