The new yellow that is responsible for the improved fade data is also used in the P 9000, P8000,etc, etc. P series, right?
What is different in P 10k is the auto switching between MK and Pk which they promote as some radical innovation, when Canon and HP pioneered and offered that over 12 years ago, with no flushing, glitches or ink waste involved.
What the P10k and P20k do offer is an additional lighter gray which I thought would be fantastic for a true bw quad inkset within an Oem full color inkset. But Epson suggested it was incorporated for making the greater speeds function with a smoother dither. I have never seen either Epson or anyone using these models suggest there is any real monochrome innovation there. It seems to be all about speed. I imagine if you use Studio Print you could, with effort and time, partition these inks in real precise ways but I don’t know anyone who is doing that. Maybe someone is....but you would think we would have heard about it by now.
The other thing is head clog performance. I haven’t read any evidence, yet, that these bigger heads are clogging less or lasting longer than the heads of the P9000 which are the same heads apparently as the 9900 series. I think maybe, someone can correct me, that the pump assembly was tweaked some.
I don’t own any of these so I’m just going on what people have reported in the last year. I’m very curious as to how these more robust heads pan out in the future.
I know one thing, the original Epson 10k of about 19 years ago when I started, had big super durable heads that were also used on the Roland Hi Fi machines. On the Rolands you could easily remove them and replace them yourself. They also had a “universal” Black that worked quite well on all media. And I never did nozzle checks because the nozzles were always clean, and I did a ton of work on flakey cotton rag that never seemed to clog the heads. All that changed when they went to the 9600 with the 2880 ppi smaller nozzles.
John
Do you have confirmation the ink is the same as that of the SCP10000/20000?
I seriously doubt it, at least one appears to be different. I use the 20000 regularly, but have not run into the problems with gloss fine art I have on the 9500.
