So I am in the market to purchase a new A3 inkjet printer.
I currently use an Epson photo 1290 A3 printer that I have had for a few years now. I bought that from a good friend of mine who found it was to large a printer for his home needs and sold it on to me at a reasonable price.
Epson are the only choice in terms of quality for large A3 printing.
I have looked at the Epson website and there seems to be two candidates for the choice of A3 printer.
The Photo 1400 priced at approx £320 & the Photo R2880, priced at approx £655
As you can see, there is a big difference in price. What I need to be sure on is the delivery of print quality to meet my needs.
What a new printer will do is open up the possibility for me to print more of my own work. So I could start to print my gift commission caricatures myself as well as potentially any celebrity caricatures that people could buy.
This makes it exciting but with around £300 difference in the price I need to get the right printer!
I am not going to rush into this, I need to be clear on the right choice. Any advice or experience from you guy's who may already own one of these models, or maybe another model, is very welcome!
My old A3 Photo 1290 will be available to buy at a low price if anyone is interested in an A3 printer.
I will let you know how I get on!
2 comments:
You might be better off with the R2880 since you plan to sell them. What's wrong with Canon? I have one their photo printers and everybody amaze by what I print out.
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I've had an Epson 4800 for the last three years Steve, prints A2 and Panoramas (2.1 metres long !!) - being a photographer that should be of interest.
These are the smallest of the 'Pro' end of printers, very robust with the same 'innards' as their huge plotters.
Big ink tanks (works out so much cheaper per print) and takes a 30 metre roll of paper. I use Ilford Pearl 280gsm paper - superb.
You should get 10 years life out of them.
The current model is the 4880 - a man with a Merc should have nothing less !!
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