Advice on a wide format printer please

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Hi guys,
I'm going to buy a wide-format printer to be able to print large format photos. I want to buy HP Designjet Z6200, but a friend of mine uses Canon IPF8300 and seems to be absolutely satisfied with it. So I'm not sure if I should pay more for HP. As I don't understand much in printers I really need your advice :) Which printer would you choose?
 
Just a personal preference but in my opinion Epson LF are superior.

We have one which is getting on a bit now the Epson 7880 A1 printer and to date never had a problem with it. We use it for canvases and prints plus other graphics and it has excellent pin sharp output.
 
In my experience Epson are the more widely used wide format printers, certainly in terms of what guys onthe High Street are using. Supplies are generally more widely available too.
 
Epson sell the most - they can also waste loads of very expensive ink cleaning the heads if it's not used every day or two....

Canon tends not to have the same issues - but their heads need replaced after a few thousand prints at the cost of a few hundred pounds.

Prints from canon and HP can be heat laminated - as can their canvas prints.... but you cant do epsons

If you google you'll find loads of in depth reviews on each of the printers by people who have used them for quite a while - rather than general reviews done over a week or so... try northlight for ones on the canon - and luminous landscape have good ones too
 
snappingsam said:
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Prints from canon and HP can be heat laminated - as can their canvas prints.... but you cant do epsons

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... try northlight for ones on the canon - and luminous landscape have good ones too
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Interested in the heat laminating comment. Is it Epson ink that precludes heat laminating? It cannot be the paper surely, as any paper can be used in any printer (more or less).

I would second the suggestion regarding Keith @ Northlight - but would point out that there is much useful info on Epson's there too.

Anthony.
 
chatting with the rep from Hot Press - who really knows his stuff - informed me its the inks used in the Epson that cause the issue with hot laminating...
 
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