Small desktop printers:
We are able to achieve stunning results with even the smallest printers from Epson, Canon, HP and other brands, with both genuine Epson ink and some third party inks. Even a small A3+ printer like an Epson 1160 which is already for many years on the market. Our favourite printers are : Epson 1160 / 1290 / 2100 and the latest 2400. You do not need to buy a high end professional Wide Formar printer like a 4800 or 7800 in order to achieve stunning results, but of course these desktop printers are not production work horses like the wide format printers.
Wide format printers:
First of all we believe that they are much better build machines and of course they come at a very different price tag. We can mention a few advantages:
a. We can feed media on the roll, which we experienced as being much more reliable than sheet feeding particulalry with heavy Fine Art papers.
B. The genuine Epson ink is relative a lot cheaper for these printers since we can buy the ink in large capacity cartridges of 110ml, 220ml and even 500ml.
C. For these printers are a lot of professional Rip drivers available.
