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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: barry685 on January 16, 2011, 09:19:22 am

Title: Epson 4900 Borderless
Post by: barry685 on January 16, 2011, 09:19:22 am

When you print borderless on roll paper, how much paper waste is trimmed off ?

Title: Re: Epson 4900 Borderless
Post by: Randy Carone on January 16, 2011, 10:30:21 am

Based on this spec on the Epson 4900 brochure, I'd assume you can cut BorderFree® images with no margin or paper waste.

BorderFree® Roll-Based Printing
Complete borderless printing on the following roll media sizes: 8", 10", 11", 13", 14", 16", 16.5", 17"
Top and bottom edges can be automatically cut to any length when printing on roll media

Title: Re: Epson 4900 Borderless
Post by: barry685 on January 16, 2011, 12:53:44 pm

I think all printers printing borderless off of roll paper, have to do a cut that trims off some excess. I have a z3100 that trims about 3 1/2 inches . A canon Ipf6300 about 1" is trimmed off. I'm probably not describing this to well  ???

Title: Re: Epson 4900 Borderless
Post by: barry685 on January 16, 2011, 12:54:42 pm

Randy do you have a working 4900 at shades of paper?

Title: Re: Epson 4900 Borderless
Post by: Randy Carone on January 16, 2011, 06:27:53 pm

We have a few in stock - at a very good pricepoint - but none hooked up at this time. We ran one for three days at our booth at PhotoPlus in NYC. What info are you after?

Title: Re: Epson 4900 Borderless
Post by: barry685 on January 16, 2011, 06:53:05 pm

Will contact you tomorrow.

Title: Re: Epson 4900 Borderless
Post by: barry685 on January 17, 2011, 05:30:17 pm

For those of you who are interested. Spoke with Epson Tech support. Everytime a borderless print is made 3" of paper is trimmed off and wasted.

Title: Re: Epson 4900 Borderless
Post by: Colortrails on January 17, 2011, 06:51:40 pm

Has anyone received their 4900 yet? Was surprised to see B&H devoid of reviews even though it seems to be in stock. Hopefully LL will review this bad boy; nobody does printer reviews better than this site. :)

Title: Re: Epson 4900 Borderless
Post by: Randy Carone on January 17, 2011, 07:09:20 pm

There is a very detailed review on LuLa by Mark Segal.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/the_epson_4900_printer_hands_on_and_down_to_work.shtml

We've sold a significant number with very good response, so I'm sure you'll see user comments in the near future.

Title: Re: Epson 4900 Borderless
Post by: rodsncones on January 17, 2011, 07:13:05 pm

Ditto what Randy said, and there is a three page posting on the review just a ways down in this forum.

Title: Re: Epson 4900 Borderless
Post by: Colortrails on January 17, 2011, 09:52:28 pm

Woops! My initial scan of the front page didn't turn it up; not sure how I missed it. Thanks guys!