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So my SP4800 has developed a strange "groan" when printing today, yellow needs clearing out every time I print colour (which is once a month at most), and it's getting more and more ornery about paper loading issues. It's also bloody huge and takes up a stupid amount of space in my office. Oh, and I can't lift it on my own.
I have quite a few 220ml carts for it, but with about 5 of them needing replacement shortly I'm wondering whether it might be best to just ditch the printer before the groan becomes a clunk and sell the unopened carts.
To that end, I've been looking at a replacement.
Canon Prograf-1000
Pro: It's Canon so will hopefully "just work". Heads are replaceable. Black ink swap is pain free.
Con: 600mm paper length limit which will make my 6x17 panoramas a bit dinky. This is a biggie. If they fixed it with firmware I'd almost certainly buy it.
Epson P-800 (Originally put the 600 but it was a typo)
Pro: I can print whatever size I want.
Con: Ink swap shinanegins. Irreplaceable head (?). It's Epson and will probably require fiddling with to get it to work.
Epson P5000
Pro: It does everything
Con: It's massive and expensive and realistically, it's overkill for my needs.
So none of these three are the perfect solution which in today's world is a bit annoying. Spending around the thousand mark for a printer feels as though it should be perfect, so I'm not sure I can pull that kind of expensive trigger on something I'm not happy about.
Is there anything else worth considering in the sub £1500 mark?
I have quite a few 220ml carts for it, but with about 5 of them needing replacement shortly I'm wondering whether it might be best to just ditch the printer before the groan becomes a clunk and sell the unopened carts.
To that end, I've been looking at a replacement.
Canon Prograf-1000
Pro: It's Canon so will hopefully "just work". Heads are replaceable. Black ink swap is pain free.
Con: 600mm paper length limit which will make my 6x17 panoramas a bit dinky. This is a biggie. If they fixed it with firmware I'd almost certainly buy it.
Epson P-800 (Originally put the 600 but it was a typo)
Pro: I can print whatever size I want.
Con: Ink swap shinanegins. Irreplaceable head (?). It's Epson and will probably require fiddling with to get it to work.
Epson P5000
Pro: It does everything
Con: It's massive and expensive and realistically, it's overkill for my needs.
So none of these three are the perfect solution which in today's world is a bit annoying. Spending around the thousand mark for a printer feels as though it should be perfect, so I'm not sure I can pull that kind of expensive trigger on something I'm not happy about.
Is there anything else worth considering in the sub £1500 mark?
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