alex wetmore wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Chris Stoddart wrote:
All this talk about the pros and cons of Ilford paper and so on and so forth gives me opportunity to asks for recommendations for an A3 photo printer, which I am sure Santa will be bringing me. I'm really torn between the Canon i9000 and the Epson Stylus 1290S. In favour of the Canon is that it has lots of little ink cartridges; in favour of the Epson is it has a roll feeder in case I want to do panoramics (I'm tempted).
Another advantage of the Canon is that you can easily refill the ink cartridges. Don't underestimate how much ink will cost you when making a lot of prints. Being able to trivially refill cartridges is a real plus.
I switched from Epsons to a Canon S9000 about a year ago and love it.
The Canon doesn't have a roll feeder, but you can do panoramics up to about 44" if you just drape the paper behind it. I've read of some ways to get the printer to allow you to make longer panoramics.
Cons for the Canon are that a colleague bought one and got bad banding (I think it was the 9000 though), so took it back and swapped it for another - same problem.
My S9000 had a few clogged nozzles in the original printhead, but Canon just mailed me another one.
alex
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