Epson stylus photo1400:
The new Epson Stylus Photo 1400 can spray out ink drops as small as 1.5 Pico liters. The 1400 uses six separate cheap ink cartridges: cyan, magenta, yellow, black, light cyan, and light magenta. So 1400 won’t make you waste the rest of your unused color ink just because the light magenta ran out again.
Scrap bookers, who often use 12×12-inch paper, will probably welcome the Stylus Photo 1400, since it lists for $150 less than the Stylus Photo R1800, which is the next step up in Epson’s 13-inch line. Sleek silver-and-black styling keeps the Stylus Photo 1400 from becoming an eyesore in your home office. Epson does include the ability to print onto CDs and DVDs, both full size and their smaller 8cm cousins used in camcorders. The driver for Epson is same as included on its other Stylus Photo printers, though it doesn’t include the fancy black-and-white driver that comes with the R2400.
The Epson Stylus Photo 1400 cheap cartridge offers 5,760×1, 440dpi, with a minimum ink droplet size of 1.5 Pico liters. As usual, Epson offers a wide array of photo papers for use with the 1400, and even has some strange options, such as its Iron-on Cool Peel Transfer paper and Photo Quality Self Adhesive Sheets.
Each of the six cheap ink cartridges will set you back about $20. Colors are generally accurate, and the printer did a fine job of preserving detail in both very bright and very dark areas of our images. Of course, the brightness of the whites and the depth of black will vary based on the paper you choose.
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An ink cartridge includes a thermal ink-jet head provided with a heat generating portion that generates thermal energy for ejecting the ink from an ejection opening, in which: the heat generating portion has, on its surface in contact with the ink, a protective layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of a silicon oxide, a silicon nitride, and a silicon carbide; and the ink contains a substance that dissolves the protective layer and a compound represented by (R.sub.2).sub.nA–. . . –N(R.sub.1)C(O)R.sub.3(R.sub.4)–(A) where A represents alkylene or alkenylene which forms a ring with a nitrogen atom, a carbonyl group and R.sub.3, R.sub.1 and R.sub.4 each represent hydrogen atom, hydroxyl, alkyl, alkenyl, acyl, carbamoyl, carboxyl or sulfonyl, R.sub.2 represents a group bonded to an arbitrary carbon atom of A and represents hydrogen atom, hydroxyl, alkyl, alkenyl, acyl, carbamoyl, carboxyl or sulfonyl, n represents 0 to 4, and R.sub.3 represents carbon or nitrogen atom, and a content X (% by mass) of the compound satisfies 1.ltoreq.X.ltoreq.30.