Let's see how it shapes up. The Claims Firstly, this review assumes that you are already familiar with the Epson 1270 . If not, please read my review from the Spring of 2000. The 1280 is a modest upgrade to last year's 1270 . Epson claims a somewhat enhanced colour gamut.
Physical cosmetics are slightly different, and that's about it.
The same ink cartridges as the 1270 uses are used on the 1280 . Of these enhancements the only one that I consider of importance is the 2880 dpi printing mode. I was also curious to see if the enhanced colour gamut would be visible. My tests consisted primarily of making three variation prints using a standard test file. I used Epson Premium Semi-Gloss , printing with a 360 dpi output file from Photoshop 6 .