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60" color graphics & photo printer
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Overview
The SureColor P20570 is a 64-inch, 12-cartridge inkjet built for AEC shops whose color output has outgrown a 44-inch roll. It carries Epson’s UltraChrome ink set through 12 channels at up to 2400 x 1200 DPI, and Epson rates it at 18 m²/h in normal-quality production. What that width buys you is presentation work at scale: renderings, coordination sets and large GIS maps where the last five percent of a saturated red is where the drawing earns its keep. On the roll media we’d put it on, that 12-ink array is what holds skin tones and deep site-plan shadows together rather than letting them muddy.
It is not a line-drawing workhorse for a small studio. If your day is mostly monochrome bid sets and redlines, the 64-inch footprint (nearly 108 inches wide, 494 lbs) and 12-cartridge running cost are more machine than the job needs. A dual-roll 44-inch model like the Epson P8570DR 44-in, or the single-roll Epson P9570 44-in, fits a plans-heavy engineering department more sensibly. Step up only if you genuinely need the full 64-inch web.
Where it performs best
Best overall in its class right now. How we grade →
At a glance
Ideal for: high-volume color presentation, GIS and site-plan output up to 64-in wide in a print room or busy multidiscipline practice. Not the tool for: small studios running mostly monochrome plan sets, where a 44-in single- or dual-roll model is a better footprint and cost fit.
Expert analysis
Key takeaways
The Epson SureColor P20570 is a 64-inch aqueous inkjet built for the large end of AEC output — the point where a firm stops printing drawings and starts producing them: full-size renderings, competition boards, GIS maps and color-coded coordination sheets that need to hold their detail from six feet away and survive a second look at six inches. It is a color machine with twelve ink channels, and the reason to buy it lives in that color.
Where an office plotter treats color as a courtesy, this one treats it as the product. The difference shows up where photographs live — in the last five percent of a saturated red, in the shadow of a rendered stone facade — and that is a different conversation than line weights and legibility.
Twelve ink channels is the headline, but the honest way to read it is by what it does to the edges of a gamut. On the media we measured, the extra channels of the UltraChrome pigment set widen the space where a rendering’s most saturated colors live — the deep teatime shadows under an entry canopy, the cyan edge of a sky in a site photomontage — rather than dramatically changing a mid-tone blue you’d never have questioned. Measured gamut, not a marketing percentage, is the fair way to judge that, and it is worth checking against your own paper.
For line work — permit sets, structural details, MEP coordination — the 2400 x 1200 DPI addressability renders fine lines and small callout text cleanly. But be clear-eyed: this is a machine you buy for the color renderings, and it will print your drawings competently as a bonus, not the other way around.
Epson rates the P20570 at 18 m²/h in production high-quality mode. Treat that as a ceiling, not a daily average: photo-quality board work, drying time, roll changes and mixed-size sheets all pull real throughput below the datasheet figure, and color proofs run slower still. It draws roughly 95 W typical and next to nothing in standby, so power is not the constraint — floor space is. At nearly 108 inches wide and close to 500 pounds, this is a print-room fixture, not an office-corner plotter.
Options tell you who it’s for. An Auto Take-up Reel-style workflow, an optional 1TB SSD for spooling large jobs, and an Adobe PostScript 3 expansion unit point squarely at a busy reprographics or presentation-graphics operation that runs long, color-critical roll jobs unattended.
Estimate plot times for your own run lengths.
One set: – · Weekly plotting time: –
Computed from the manufacturer's rated 1,314 ft²/h. Real-world mixed sets run slower — treat this as a best case for comparing machines, not a promise.
If your work is genuinely 60-inch — large presentation boards, wide GIS plots, exhibition-grade renderings produced in volume — the P20570 belongs in the conversation. If it is mostly 44-inch color that occasionally goes big, the step-down Epson P9570 44-in delivers the same UltraChrome color character in a smaller, less demanding footprint, and the dual-roll Epson P8570DR 44-in handles mixed-media unattended running well. Cross-shop the 60-in field too: the Canon PRO-4100S 60-in and Canon PRO-6000S 60-in compete directly on width and color. See how the class stacks up on our 60-in production ranking.
This is not a drawing-office workhorse for a firm that mainly plots black-and-white bid sets. That firm is over-buying width, color and floor space it will rarely use.
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The read
The SureColor P20570 earns its place where color is the deliverable and the deliverable is large: presentation boards, renderings, GIS and coordination graphics produced often enough to justify a dedicated 64-inch machine and the space it commands. Its twelve-channel UltraChrome set reaches into the saturated corners where board-quality color succeeds or fails, and it prints line work cleanly along the way. For a firm whose output is mostly monochrome drawings or occasional 44-inch color, that capability is more than the workflow needs — the narrower Epson P9570 is the more honest fit. Buy this one when color, width and volume all point the same direction, and check its gamut on your own media before you commit.
Spec analysis
Overall performance
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Measured color
Measured on Hahnemühle Photo Gloss Baryta X 320 — the same paper we put every printer on, so the only thing that varies is the printer and its ink. Computed with ArgyllCMS from the paper maker’s ICC profile: real measured color data, not a spec-sheet claim.
These are 3-D color-volume figures measured from the actual profile — a stricter, more honest gauge than the 2-D “% coverage” numbers on marketing spec sheets, which run considerably higher. Use them to compare printers on the same basis.
| Media | Volume (Lab³) | sRGB | Adobe RGB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo Gloss Baryta (common basis) | 857,553 | 66.3% | 58.7% |
| Backlit film | 1,011,747 | 70.6% | 62.1% |
| Fine-art | 952,231 | 69.5% | 62.2% |
| Satin / semi-gloss photo | 931,011 | 69.1% | 61.3% |
| Premium glossy photo | 923,325 | 69.2% | 60.7% |
| Matte photo | 874,913 | 69.2% | 59.4% |
| Canvas | 599,528 | 54.4% | 44.3% |
| Vinyl | 495,537 | 46.6% | 36.9% |
| Plain / coated | 416,217 | 41% | 31.5% |
Gamut volume is the size of the reproducible color solid in CIELAB, computed with ArgyllCMS iccgamut. Coverage is the share of the sRGB / Adobe RGB reference volume the printer reproduces (ArgyllCMS viewgam). A larger volume and higher coverage mean more saturated colors reproduced faithfully; wide-format pigment printers typically extend beyond sRGB in cyans and greens while falling short of its deepest blues.
Verified specifications
| Maximum roll width | 60 inmanufacturer-verified |
|---|---|
| Maximum resolution | 2400 x 1200 dpi |
| Print speed (Epson quoted) | 1,314 ft2/hr (draft); 200 ft2/hr (quality)manufacturer-verified |
| Ink platform | UltraChrome PRO12 aqueous pigment (12 colors)manufacturer-verified |
| Droplet size | 3.5 plmanufacturer-verified |
| Internal storage | 960 GBmanufacturer-verified |
| Media types | photographic and fine art roll media, sheet media and rigid boards |
| Print permanence (Epson quoted) | 200 years color / 400 years black-and-whitemanufacturer-verified |
| Connectivity | Gigabit Ethernet (100Base-TX/1000Base-T) + SuperSpeed USB |
| Weight / Width | 494 lb / 107.9 in |
manufacturer-verified = checked against the manufacturer’s official datasheet, not aggregator data. Everything else is standards-body / catalog data we consider reliable.
Specifications
| Color | Yes |
|---|---|
| Print technology | Inkjet |
| Maximum resolution | 2400 x 1200 DPI |
| Number of print cartridges | 12 |
| Display | LCD |
|---|---|
| Control type | Touch |
| Color display | Yes |
| Product color | Black, White |
| Internal memory | 6000 MB |
| Built-in display | Yes |
| Display diagonal | 4.3" |
| Maximum roll length | 3543.3" (90 m) |
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| Paper tray media types | Roll |
| USB port | Yes |
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| Ethernet LAN | Yes |
| Ethernet LAN data rates | 100,1000 Mbit/s |
| Depth | 38.5" (977.9 mm) |
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| Width | 107.9" (2740.7 mm) |
| Height | 45.1" (1145.5 mm) |
| Weight | 494.1 lbs (224.1 kg) |
| AC input voltage | 100 – 240 V |
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| AC input frequency | 50 – 60 Hz |
| Power consumption (standby) | 0.3 W |
| Power consumption (typical) | 95 W |
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -20 – 40 °C |
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| Operating temperature (T-T) | 10 – 35 °C |
| Storage relative humidity (H-H) | 5 – 85% |
| Operating relative humidity (H-H) | 20 – 80% |
| Windows operating systems supported | Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 |
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Everything that fits the Epson SureColor P20570
The full supplies hub lists every cartridge, printhead, roll and accessory verified against the manufacturer's own documentation for this machine.
12 ink cartridges · 12 paper & media items · 5 accessories · 6 coverage plans
Epson SureColor P20570 ink and paper →Supplies
Genuine consumables that fit the Epson SureColor P20570 64-in Wide-Format Printer — only the cartridges, printheads and media compatible with this model.
Epson T56E UltraChrome Original
Epson T56E UltraChrome Original
Epson T56E UltraChrome Original
Epson C13T56E320 printer ink refill Original
Epson T56E UltraChrome Original
Epson T56E UltraChrome Original
Epson C13T56E520 printer ink refill Original
Epson T56E UltraChrome Original
Epson C13T56E620 printer ink refill Original
Epson T56E UltraChrome Original
Epson C13T56EA20 printer ink refill Original
Epson T56E UltraChrome Original
Representative imageMagic 98gsm/26# Coated Matte Paper (DMPG98)Representative image28LB Inkjet Coated Matte Paper (748)Representative image46LB Inkjet Coated Matte Paper (747)Representative image6.5mil Matte Coated Paper w/ PSA (746PSA)Representative image24LB Inkjet Coated Matte Paper (745)Representative image20LB High Brite Inkjet Bond Paper (740)Representative image24LB Inkjet Bond Paper (731)Representative image20LB Inkjet Bond Paper (730)Representative image24LB Inkjet Coated Matte Paper Economy (714)Representative image20LB Engineering Vellum (471)Representative imageWSL 28LB Simple Inkjet Coated Matte Paper (C2S) (448)Representative imageWSL 24LB Simple Inkjet Coated Matte Paper (C2S) (446)
1-Year NBD On-Site Repair (at purchase) (PSP20570S1)Epson 1 Year In-Coverage (Lfp) Esp-Onsite (IWP20570S1)Epson 1Year Out-Of-Coverage (Lfp) Esp-Onsite (OWP20570S1)
2-Year NBD On-Site Repair (at purchase) (PSP20570S2)
4-Year NBD On-Site Repair (at purchase) (PSP20570S4)
Install Service (Lfp) P-Series 64 Inch (EPPP64INS)Questions
Not really. It is a 12-channel color machine built for large renderings and boards; a firm running mostly monochrome drawings is paying for color, width and floor space it will rarely use.
Epson states 18 m²/h at normal quality. Treat that as a ceiling — photo-quality boards, drying, roll changes and mixed-size jobs pull the daily average below the datasheet figure.
It runs Epson’s 12-channel UltraChrome pigment set, drawing on the Epson UltraChrome ink family; color-critical work benefits from checking measured gamut on your chosen media.
Yes — with the optional Auto Take-up Reel workflow, a 1TB SSD for spooling and the Adobe PostScript 3 expansion unit, it’s configured for long, color-critical roll runs in a reprographics setting.
The [[product:78276322|Epson P9570 44-in]] offers the same UltraChrome color character in a smaller footprint, and the [[product:97816057|Epson P8570DR 44-in]] adds dual-roll unattended running. Choose the P20570 only when you genuinely need 60-inch width.
It measures 107.9″ wide, 45.1″ high and 38.5″ deep, and weighs 494.1 lbs — a dedicated print-room install. Power is modest at about 95 W typical and 0.3 W in standby.
Configuration, media and a quote tailored to your workflow — from AEC plotter specialists.
