It uses one of the world's smallest droplet sizes of just four picolitres. It is also the first four-colour inkjet printer producing photographic images comparable to those of silver halide photo prints. Most of the other competitors require at least six ink cartridges to achieve quality photo prints. Epson claims super fast 12 pages per minute of printing. Actual printing speed was close to this when I printed heavy graphics and text-based documents.
Users can select fast speeds in both colour graphics and photo modes.
Being both fast and silent because of the super quiet casing design, it is no wonder that the Stylus Color 880 would fit perfectly into a Soho environment or even a big organisation. This printer also considers the small details that business users look for, such as having an extra high capacity ink cartridge to provide value and savings. To position it as a viable business tool, Epson has included professional business document management features like watermarking, double-sided auto page alignment printing and book format auto pagination. This way, even Soho users can enjoy the benefits of producing in-house company brochures, training manuals and catalogues. For the networked office, an optional print server is available.