Epson Stylus Photo 1280 Review

This subject will be featured in a forthcoming issue of The Luminous Landscape Video Journal.
Once More With Feeling

Like clockwork‚ and as it does every 12 months, in early 2001Epsonreleased its next-generation photographic printer, theEpson Stylus Photo 1280. (In some worldwide markets it is also called the1290 ‚ same printer, just a different name). There is also an890model, offing the same image quality but with a narrower paper transport. Everything I write here about the1280applies to the1290and also to the890, in that particular case with the exception of paper-width handling ability.
It's been exactly a year since theEpson 1270appeared. At that time it caused a real stir among desktop printers. It offered 6 inks, 1440 dpi output resolution and 20‚ 30 years colorfastness with certain papers. (Equaling Cibachrome / Ilfochrome in this area).My reviewof the 1270 still remains one of the most visited pages on this site.
The1270has had a bit of choppy year because of r...