So when will the US get these Epson printers in our stores? Meanwhile I predict sellers from Britain will be selling them on Ebay soon. We Americans should be able to get one. International shipping will be costly, but worth it to get rid of those money stealing ink cartridges.
I already created and saved Ebay searchs for Epson L355 and L555.
Finally, someone built a printer like this. I want.
It’s only a 4-color printer, which means it’s not photo-quality.
Too bad, because it’s a good idea.
Several Korea sellers have listings for the L355. But it has plug type C and won’t work in the US.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Epson-L355-Inkjet-Color-All-in-one-Printer-copy-scan-WiFi-Ink-Tank-System-/271567064037?pt=COMP_Printers&hash=item3f3aa88be5
Interesting given that - having used other brands for years - we bought an Epson home printer for the first time recently. The printer software seems primarily tasked with selling you ink. It’s like inviting a cartridge salesman into your home.
I already have this - before I bought my inkjet printer, I made sure there were third-party refillable cartridges for it. In cost is about 1/25th of prefilled cartridges.
+1
I cannot wait.
This has been around for years.
At least 5 years ago, our horse show photographer had an ink-jet printer where the printhead was attached by flexible tubes to refillable ink tanks. He bought ink in liter bottles – said it saved him great amounts of money.
I believe this was an after-market modification to the printer. But a very standard one, sold to people who used their printers a lot. He bought the kit designed for his printer and installed it himself (and he was a photographer, no computer tech background at all).
Apparently Epson saw the success of these aftermarket kits, and decided to build that into some of their printers.
Huh? 4-color printing has been the standard for photo printing for decades. Virtually every professionally printed thing you read was produced by a four-color process.
You don’t have to wait long, Amazon has the L355 I in stock.
The bigger question is this for a Dye printer or Pigment?
One is easy, the other could get very interesting.
4-color printing is fine for publication-quality work, but fine-art printing requires more inks - at least 6, and preferably more.
Eh, perfect for me - I have never needed photo quality printing for anything.
Red, Yellow, Blue, Black. What would the other 2 colors be?
No- Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black.
Fine-art printers usually use a light cyan / light yellow / light magenta in addition to the primary inks, and some use light grey, too. There are also printers that add Red, Green, and Blue inks to the CYMK.
At one point I saw a orange and a purple ink in the mix. You can do ok with 4, but get better results with 6+. With the demise of the darkroom, I have also seen Lt Gray, gray, Lt black, black+ Photo black. In one printer.
Must’ve been a woman who came up with the names for those colors. 
Do you know how long an extension cord you’d need to reach from Korea to the U.S.???
Proprietary Electricity,** that’s** where they get you!
It’s rated for voltage 100-240V, it will work either with an adaptor or a change of plug.
Magenta was named after a battle in the Italian city of Magenta, which derived its name from a Roman emperor. Cyancomes from the Greek kyanos, which may come from Hittite. So, no good evidence of a feminine origin.
Continous tone images, like a pre-digital photo print, can look good printed in 3 or 4 colors, but the available colors will be limited – there will be many colors (seen in nature and painting) that can’t even be approximated. Same thing with an 4-color offset printing press (which uses Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black ink) except the image will look grainier, than a photo print. Using an inkjet with 6 or more colors improves the printer’s “gamut.”