Epson Stylus Photo 780
Inkjet Printer

The Printer Driver

This is the first page of the new Windows printer driver (see first page of this review for driver update information) that has the "EPSON Natural Color" option, it also supports PRINT Image Matching (PIM) when used with the Epson Film Factory software. Here you select the media type you will use:

The printing mode can be Automatic where the printer will analyze the data being sent to it and pick the best mode and resolution based on how you have the Quality-Speed selection set.

Or you can select PhotoEnhance and then choose one of the options based on the content of your picture.

Clicking on the Custom button and then choosing Advanced brings you into the most powerful part of the printer driver. From here you can manually set every parameter from resolution to color management.

You can manually adjust the primary colors as well as saturation, brightness and contrast. The Mode drop down gives you the options of Automatic, Photo-realistic or Vivid.

The PhotoEnhance4 options let you get better results from your digital camera images and by setting one or more options you can also add photographic effects like Sepia or Monochrome.

You can even add effects like simulated Canvas or Parchment as well as Soft Focus for very distinctive looking portrait prints, the combinations are endless and sometimes mind-boggling.