Digital BW, The Print

Unfortunately the best printers don't come in A4 size. The R800 should be 
much better than what you have used so far, but save up for the R2400 which 
does great B&W and color out-of-the-box- available for about \ufffd400 if you 
look around.

Bob Frost.

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From: "Tony Wells" <oaksfield@...>

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.