Epson

Epson SureColor P700

Photo printerIndividual cartridges

Ten pigment inks, no scanner, no copier, no compromise. The P700 is a print-only machine aimed at photographers who care about how a print will look in fifteen years, and the ink set is the argument: UltraChrome PRO10 carries three blacks — photo, matte and light — plus violet, and the result is deep blacks on glossy paper and a monochrome range that no four-ink or six-ink printer approaches. It takes sheets up to 13 × 19 and a roll for panoramas, and it switches between photo and matte black automatically rather than purging ink to do it, which was the expensive irritation on earlier generations. Cost per page is not the right question here and Epson does not publish ISO yields for it, so this entry shows none; the meaningful figure is cost per print, which depends entirely on the paper and how much of the sheet is covered.

Approx. price: ~$799

Best for

A photographer printing exhibition or portfolio work at home who needs archival pigment output rather than everyday documents.

marks an estimate. Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. Purchase price plus ink or toner over the pages shown, assuming four mono pages for every colour page. Price is an approximate snapshot from our last catalogue update.

Specifications

Manufacturer-published figures. Cost lines are computed from the consumable figures above and are estimates.

Approx. price: ~$799
Technology: Piezo inkjet
Ink system: Individual cartridges
Inks: 10
Third-party ink lock: No
Ink subscription: None offered
Functions: Print
Two-sided printing: None
Document feeder: None
Paper capacity: 120 sheets
Max paper size: 13×19
Borderless photo: Yes
Resolution: 5760 × 1440 dpi
Connectivity: Wi-Fi · Ethernet
Mobile printing: AirPrint · Mopria
Display: 4.3" colour touchscreen
Dimensions: 20.3 × 14.8 × 6.8 in
Weight: 33.1 lb
Released: 2020

Features

Ten-colour UltraChrome PRO10 pigment ink set
Photo, matte and light black inks with automatic switching
Prints up to 13 × 19 sheets plus roll paper for panoramas
Violet ink extends the blue and purple range
4.3-inch touchscreen with a built-in print preview
Front-loading fine-art media path for thick papers

No ink lock Wider than letter Borderless photo Ethernet

In its favour

Three black inks give monochrome prints a tonal range dye printers cannot reach
Pigment inks are rated for far longer display life than the dye sets in consumer photo printers
Switches between photo and matte black without the ink-purging penalty older models charged
Handles thick fine-art paper through a dedicated flat path
Roll support makes panoramic prints possible at home

Against it

Print only — no scanner, no copier, nothing else
Epson publishes no ISO page yields for this ink set, so no cost per page can be computed
Ten cartridges to keep stocked, and they are small
Heavy and deep; it needs a dedicated surface
Overkill, and expensive, for anyone printing documents
The 13 × 19 ceiling is low for a printer at this price if the intention is exhibition work

What owners say

Distilled from owner discussions and long-term published reviews

This is where home printing stops being about documents. Ten pigment inks with three blacks, a flat path for heavy fine-art paper, and output whose display life is measured in decades. Owners printing portfolio or exhibition work describe it as the point at which they stopped sending files to a lab.

The running-cost conversation is different here too. There is no ISO page yield to divide into a cartridge price, because nobody prints a standard text page on one of these. What owners talk about instead is ink lost to maintenance when the printer sits idle, which is the recurring complaint: a pigment photo printer used twice a year is an expensive object. Used weekly, it is not.

What owners like

Owners describe the three-black pigment set as a different category of output from any consumer photo printer, particularly for monochrome
Automatic switching between photo and matte black without purging ink removes the expense that made earlier generations painful
Handles thick fine-art paper through a dedicated flat path, which owners printing on cotton rag stock rely on
Prints are rated for display life measured in decades rather than years

Common complaints

Owners who print irregularly report losing meaningful ink to maintenance cycles — this is a printer that wants to be used
Ten small cartridges is an expensive and fiddly stock to keep, and one empty colour stops the printer
Print only: owners wanting a scanner have to buy one separately
Heavy and deep enough that it needs a dedicated surface

Questions that keep coming up

Does it waste ink if I don't print often?

Yes, and owners who print in occasional bursts raise it consistently. Pigment photo printers run maintenance cycles to keep ten nozzle sets clear, and those cycles consume ink whether or not you printed anything. Owners who print weekly report the loss as negligible; owners who print seasonally describe finding cartridges low before they have made many prints.

What does the third black ink do?

It carries light black alongside photo black and matte black. Photo black is for glossy and lustre paper, matte black for matte and fine-art stock — they are physically different inks — and light black fills in the tonal range between. Together they are why monochrome output from this class of printer has a smoothness that dye printers cannot reach.

Is there a cost per page for it?

Not a meaningful one, and this site does not publish one. Epson does not quote ISO page yields for the PRO10 ink set, and the standard test page they are based on has nothing to do with a photograph. The figure that matters is cost per print, and it depends entirely on the paper and how much of the sheet carries ink.

Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. Owner notes are a summary of what people who own the machine report, not a test result — there is no lab behind this site.