A3 Printer recommendations

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My HP9180 has recently gone bang after 6 years. I wondered what models are the best A3 printers at the moment? Not wanting to spend a fortune as I'm not printing everyday. The ability to print direct to DVD would be a bonus. Cheers
 
Epson 1500W. Takes 6 cartridges, it goes up to A3plus, and it prints on CDs etc (well I'm pretty sure it does) and it can use wireless, although I use mine wired.
 
Yeah that looks fab but a bit out of my price range. Have you any experience of the cheaper Canon ip8750?
 
Another vote for the Epson 1500w.

I use a CIS on mine and build my own custom profiles and get excellent images, both colour and monochrome.

Not had any blocked head issues either.

I have been using the same inks on my very old R360 for years now without any head issues either.

Paul
 
Hi... Sorry to butt in on your post but I am also looking at getting a budget A3 printer. I see Costco are currently doing the Canon Pixma iX6850 for £142.99 inc. VAT and there's also a Canon refurbished item on the Bay for £120 delivered and wondered if anyone had any experience of it? The affordable (to me, anyway) Epson alternatives seem to be the XP-950 at approx. £200 and the Photo 1500W for a little more, both in the same price bracket as the Canon iP8750 and I would appreciate any guidance/comments which might help the OP as well as myself.

Edit: Sorry - should have added that wireless is not required.

Rob
 
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Depends if you are printing colour or also want to print mono. Mono typically is much harder to achieve so you'll be needing the blacks and greys and around 9 inks. I'm still using an Epson r2880 so am not best placed to suggest a current model but something like an r3000? You can pay less if good non colour cast mono isn't important. The Epson printers are well supported generally and chosen by many photo club enthusiasts. Many paper profiles are written for the main Epson machines.
 
Another Epson 1500w user here, love it, great quality prints and I also use a ciss, I must admit though I seem to have to run the 'head clean' a lot more using the ciss than I would normal cartridges and after only a year of using it I my printer locked up and a message on the screen came up relating to 'end of printer life' basically the waste tray was supposedly full and in epson's mind that's it! Time to purchase a new printer! But I searched for a reset online and found a little programme that reset the counter - cost about £20 or something and it did the job and now it's back up and running and printing flawlessly.
 
Mine is the Epson Stylus 3880 which is actually an A2 printer but I would say worth every penny. It takes large 80mm in cartridges which in fact make the contents much cheaper than when purchasing smaller cartridges. Another advantage is that you don't have to swap black cartridges over when changing from black and white to colour printing as you do on some of the smaller printers. Hope that helps.
 
I have just scrapped (well actually it is on ebay for spares with bucket loads of ink) a Canon Pixma Pro 9000 Mk ll. It was fine using Marriott ink until I left it unused for 3 months due to injury and then it wouldn't print on all channels. This is a common type of problem with these printers and unless you are intending to work them quite hard i recommend a simple printer for day to day stuff and get the exhibition and competition prints done by a commercial printer.
 
I use the Canon Pro 100s, wireless & CD printing and eight inks.
Got mine on offer from Wex Photographic an official Canon dealer with a Lacie 1TB portable drive for £247.50 inc p+p
Superb prints especially the B&W given the two grey inks.
Separate print head which can be replaced if needed, means it handles the print head alignment by channeling all inks to the one head.

Oh & came with a full set of inks not a setting up set.
I weighed them against a full set I had also bought thinking the supplied ones would be half full ones just for setting up.
Also the setting up used very little ink anyway.
 
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Oh & came with a full set of inks not a setting up set.
I weighed them against a full set I had also bought thinking the supplied ones would be half full ones just for setting up.
Also the setting up used very little ink anyway.
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I've heard that Canon don't do those half filled ink tanks shipped with their printers but someone may be able to better confirm that.
 
I have only had the Canon Pro 100s very recently and read that also.
However, I purchased a full set of inks just in case.
These arrived before the printer thus I was able to weigh them against the ones that came with the printer.
They weighed the same ink for ink, 30 grams.
Plus a pack of A4 platinum pro paper came in the box.
 
Old I no but bought the Epson R1900 from Ebay, lucky it was a brand new printer just the box opened the prints are really top notch. Beleive I paid around 180UKP inc P&P from Germany.
Russ
 
Another 3880 user, I use it mostly for A3 super, long term cost wise it makes sense :) and A2 is always an option :)
 
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