Epson - SureColor P5370

Epson L8050 is pro-sumer at best, D700 replaced by D1000. This gives you duplex printing in high quality, and quantity but somewhat restricted in print sizes (Max print width is A4 or 210mm). I would suggest a SurePress P5300 - A2 width, more inks, roll and sheet, professional

The Epson P700 is one of the best options, print quality wise. The two main downsides are small lightweight flimsy construction of the printer, and unexpectedly high cost for ink. The latter is easily fixed by going for the bigger brother P900. It's 17" and accepts larger cartridges, bringing the price per mL of ink back into normal regions. Fixing the flimsy construction problem isn't possible within your budget, at least not if you want to keep the "the best photo printer" quality requirement. You can get more robust printers, but not nearly as good ones unless you pay much more. The real fix is the P5300, which contains the same print technology, but in a sturdy metal chassis. It's built like a tank and requires two friends to help you move it around.

Pro P900: - smaller, lighter - less frequent printhead cleaning / maintenance - prints any length, including rolls (with optional adapter) - can handle totally flat posterboard Pro Canon 1100: - sturdier Contra P900: - flimsy - pizza wheel marks on some papers - optional rollpaper adapter is not very good Contra Canon 1100: - banding visible on some papers - paper size limits - frequent automatic headcleans cannot be skipped I have the P900 and am happy with it. If I were to buy again, I'd go for the newer P5300. It's the same printhead and ink, but with bigger cartridges and sturdy mechanics. Money aside it's a no-brainer, better than both P900 and 1100. But it didn't exist back then.

Hey, I've traveled this path before you. So I'm speaking from experience. >I do a lot of sizes from 11 x 14 all the way to 18 x 36 and everything in between. Respectfully, you're going to run into a lot of trouble because of your wide range of size offerings. You've never printed before at home so your LEARNING cost will be astronomical and can ruin you if you start off with prints pass 13x19. You'll make a ton of mistakes and if you make mistakes on poster size paper, the paper and ink cost will hurt. You might not know this but its more than just loading the ink and paper and clicking print. A LOT MORE. Setting the proper drivers for the paper type and getting the color profiles correct takes printing a lot of proofs to dial it in. The Canon PRO 2600 ink by itself is over a grand. Your first 100-200 prints will be all learning. When I first started I didn't know how much waste was to come just from learning. My Ego pushed me to get a bigger printer. My mentor said NO. My ego pushed even more when he told me NO. My mentor has 30 years of print experience and I reasoned that even though my EGO said get the printer I want, he must know something I don't so I listened and got the smaller printer. The smaller printer was the Epson 8550. It's the best printer on the market for its price and abilities. I don't recommend starting off with poster size prints. I know you feel that you will eventually get there so you might as get the hardware and "grow into it" but this is counter-intuitive because of the cost. I wanted to start with the Epson SureColor P5370 17" Photo Printer and thank God I didn't because I wouldn't have survived the learning cost. Think of it this way: when you were learning to drive, what do you think would’ve happened if your first car had been a Corvette? Could you have grown into it? Sure that's a possibility. It's also a higher chance of you and your high school crush ending up under a semi or smacked into tree

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