Review of Epson Stylus Pro 7900

At around $4k, a high-end printer such as the Epson Stylus Pro 7900 is not something I'll be adding to my office any time soon but I nonetheless enjoy reading the reviews. Michael Reichmann over at the Luminous Landscape website has just published a hands-on review of one of these beasts and it's worth a look if you're into printing.

An interesting feature of the 7900 is that its color gamut actually exceeds that of AdobeRGB in some areas (though *not* in overall terms). While this capability is only available in a top-of-the-line printer today, it may be more accessible in the next several years... Reason enough to always work with your selects in the largest space available - leave those "Open in Photoshop" settings at their default (ProPhotoRGB/16-bit) in Lightroom and Camera RAW! (And, just in case you're reading this and thinking that you should do this for all of your images, note that you should always convert to sRGB when outputting for the web and for many (if not most) online printing services. "Work with" in the previous comment refers to your master Photoshop files only; not your output files which should be created with a specfic use in mind.)

Here's hoping that some of this technology eventually finds its way into Epson's more affordable models!