It arrived on Wednesday in its giant box and we proceeded to drool as we unpacked the beast. One staffer who helped with some of the heavy lifting said it looked like a piano in a box!
First print!
Aside from simply being new, the 9900 has many advantages over the 9800. It's rated at being at least twice as fast, does automatic nozzle checks and cleanings, has an ink repellent coating on the print head for fewer clogged nozzles, the ability to switch between Photo and Matte Black inks, and the addition of Green and Orange inks for a wider color gamut.
The auto black switching will be great. On the 9800 we could only run Photo Black ink which meant that if you printed on Matte papers your blacks looked very flat and dusty. Not so anymore! Anyone who's printed on the 4880 running Matte Black knows the difference and it's quite spectacular.
There's a new color LCD control panel that allows you to pilot the printer in style - specific paper settings, manual ink switching, and unlocking of the electronic ink hatches! Totally sci-fi!
The addition of the Orange and Green colors as well as the dual black support means a total of ELEVEN inks. The 700ml ink carts feel like bricks!
The color gamut of the 9900 inkset (the range of colors it is able to produce) is larger than the standard on screen Adobe RGB 1998 profile so your prints will look more spectacular than ever!
(the grey area are the colors the 9900 is able to reproduce outside the standard Adobe RGB gamut.)
And finally, the fancy new print head with all of its bells and whistles.
Our old 9800 doesn't get to completely retire yet though. We're going to hang onto it for fabric printing and other experimental media use (so we don't mess up the new one!).
(here we are throwing a semi-retirement party for the 9800)
PRINT AWAY!
