Digital BW, The Print

Fellow Photographers,
Having read a review on the Epson R800 by Alain Breat on the Luminous Landscape site, 
(www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/epson-r800.shtml), I was thrown into a 
bit of a quandary.  In his review, Breat states that the R800 prints glossy with "no bronzing 
whatsoever".  He writes that the R800 features both matte and photoblack cartridges that 
allow black and white printing with clean untainted whites.  Head to head against the 
Epson 2200, he claims the R800 produces slightly more shadow detail and minor 
increases in color density and saturation.  Now, here is what I find so interesting:  He 
explains that the R800 has replaced light cyan and light majenta cartridges with blue and 
red cartridges.  He says the R800 doesn't have the light black cartridge but does have a 
cartridge called a "gloss optimizer".  It is this cartridge which lays down over the whole 
print a "varnish" that completely does away with bronzing.  But what throws me into 
indecision about buying a 4000 is his statement that "My educated guess is that we will 
soon see the gloss optimizer on larger Epson printers such as the 4000, 7600,9600, and 
the 10,600".  My quandary is this:  Should I lay out almost two grand for the present Epson 
4000 and shortly after find that Epson has updated the 4000 to include a gloss optimizer 
and replacing two inks with two different inks producing a machine that would be 
significantly superior to the original 4000 and making my 4000 worth a lot less and being 
relegated to dinosaur status and a severe drop in value?  I would not be a happy voyager!  I 
am reminded of when I bought my Canon D60 for around two thousand and two weeks 
later Canon discontinued that camera and replaced it with a camera with superior low light 
focusing and cut the price a full $500!  So the bottom line here for those of us lusting 
after a 4000 is whether to forge ahead and invest in the 4000 or hold off until they fill the 
orders they have and wait until Epson offers an upgraded 4000 with all the above goodies?  
It is just my opinion but what Epson has done with the R800 they will probably do with the 
4000.  Any thoughts?
Joe Davajon