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Recommend a good A3 printer

  • 24-02-2010 12:30am
    #1
    kerryphoto
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭


    Hi everyone
    Thinking of getting am A3 printer and was wondering if anyone here can recommend one.


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  • #2
    Dara Robinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Dara Robinson


    Whats your budget?

    http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?oid=63075040
    My house mate has this one and the results are incredible. Its also one of the best portable and reasonably priced A3 printers around.
    Or so says my house mate but he is one of the most annal retentive people when it comes to researching a buy so I trust him on this one lol


  • #3
    paulusdu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭paulusdu


    I don't mean to hijack your thread, but maybe you are thinking the same thing. I have a question to you printing Guru's. What would be the cost of a full A3 colour page (photo) to print on one of these bad boys? I'm guessing ink and A3 correct paper would not be cheap?

    I think thats the sort of thing i would have to shove into my budget along with the initial outlay.


  • #4
    stcstc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭stcstc


    A3 print would be roughly around 3-5 euros with decent paper etc

    but it does depend on the paper


  • #5
    Dara Robinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Dara Robinson


    My house mate worked it out at roughly 2-3 euro depending on the paper you guy. 3 Euro would be very good paper and 2 would be cheap tesco style replacement. This includes the cost of using the Vivid colours


  • #6
    VinDevo
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭VinDevo


    paulusdu wrote: »
    I don't mean to hijack your thread, but maybe you are thinking the same thing. I have a question to you printing Guru's. What would be the cost of a full A3 colour page (photo) to print on one of these bad boys? I'm guessing ink and A3 correct paper would not be cheap?

    I think thats the sort of thing i would have to shove into my budget along with the initial outlay.

    My costings for Epson 4800 printer:

    100 sheets A4: €30 + VAT = €36.30 (0.36 per sheet)
    Ink usage 1ml - 1.5ml per A4 = 0.38 - 0.60 per sheet (Epson data)

    So €1 for A4, marginally more than double for A3.

    Wastage is what will cost you big money - if your monitor and printer are not calibrated you end up making costly proof prints.


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  • #7
    yuloni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,040 ✭✭✭yuloni


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  • #8
    stcstc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭stcstc


    the cost per Ml of ink for an A3 ish printer is around 1.2 euros

    epson use a 60% coverage rate when working out prices, so you need to multiply their amount of ink used by 1.4 to give a closer to accurate figure

    then add around 10% for the auto cleaning and waste ink that will happen without waste prints

    a decent sheet of A3+ paper will cost approx 1 - 1.5 euros - something like ilford gallerie smooth pearl or something


  • #9
    Fionn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭Fionn


    the Epson is quite spendy eh? Just did a quick check!!
    Apple Store
    €856

    Elara
    €742

    I have a Canon 9000 pro, they have a mark II version out now
    the costs would be someplace the same as mentioned above. The initial outlay is much cheaper apparently.

    Canon Ireland
    €529

    www.officetechnology.ie
    €503

    all the above would be probably be cheaper from abroad i suspect.
    :)


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