Digital BW, The Print

Hello everyone.

I recently joined this group as I have had to close down my tradditional wet 
darkroom, and have been very disappointed with the results from my inkjet 
(an oldish Epson Photo 830) from both negative / slide scans and my DSLR, 
with slight traces of banding that become obvious in large areas of uniform 
tones, such as skies, even with expensive genuine Epson cartridges.

Having read the various posts about Epson's court battle, and the way that 
such as MIS are treading very warily for the foreseeable future, can anyone 
recommend an A4 printer for purely amateur use please? At this moment in 
time I am not sure whether to try using such as the Epson R800 for both B&W 
and colour, or whether to have two budget printers, with one for general 
purpose colour work, including photographic prints, and another one with one 
of the various Quadtone / Hextome systems, however.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Tony Wells,
England.