Mountain wilderness- Have a look at the Epson 3800. I think personally it is the best mono/colour printer (whitin a reasonable price range) epson has released yet. The mono prints are nothing short of breath taking. I also have a canon i9950. The colour gamut produced by the epson surpasses that of the canon quite easily in my opinion. The 3800 doesnt have provision for a roll, however the driver allows for prints 17 in wide by 37.4 in long. I have a roll of hahnemuehle photo rag and the panoramas this produces are quite spectacular. I got the paper cut into lengths at a local printers. These panoramas can only be achieved from the rear feed option on the printer....doesnt work any other way!!!!
The printer is big.....enough said.
The 3800 has 9 ink tanks(called a tank because it has 80mls ink) which includes three blacks for different papers/effects etc. I think these extra blacks and the overall quality of the ultrachrome inks allow for metarism free prints. The tanks are priced around the $100 Australian dollars. The printer cost me $1650 Australian. I know companies charge outragous amounts for ink but taking these figure into account the printer really only cost $750 Australian which is about $250 pounds...someone correct me if im wrong, I was wrong once before.....mistaken I think.
http://www.hahnemuehle.com/index.php...ng=en&pkat=307
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