A3 printers

morning all i am thinking soon of getting a new printer capable of printing A3 sizes any one know of the best one
thankyou

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Emma
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." Aaron Siskind
Bodies K20D, Pentax MZ-6, LTL 3, K1000d
Lenses Samsung 18-55mm, Sigma 50mm macro, Pentax 50mm, Pentax 135mm, Tamron 70-300 macro, Hanimax 28mm
Others Metz 48 and lots of bits

Before you spend that kind of money check these boys out.

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You'd get an awful lot of large prints from them for the price of the printer and I doubt that you'd actually print cheaper than them either.

Mike

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You can see some of my shots at my Flickr account.

Thankyou mike not a bad idea

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Emma
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." Aaron Siskind
Bodies K20D, Pentax MZ-6, LTL 3, K1000d
Lenses Samsung 18-55mm, Sigma 50mm macro, Pentax 50mm, Pentax 135mm, Tamron 70-300 macro, Hanimax 28mm
Others Metz 48 and lots of bits

Walking before running springs to mind.

A3 printers and decent inks are not cheap to buy, or cheap to use. Why not get a decent A4 printer and have any A3 prints that you might want produced professionally by ProAm or Photobox.

You can spend the money you save on more lenses.

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Peter Smith

Body: K10D + BG, K20D(2) + BG's
Prime: FA31/43/77 Ltd, FA50 Macro, DA*55, D-FA100mm Macro, Sigma EX180 Macro, DA*300.
Zoom: DA12-24, DA*16-50, DA*50-135, DA*60-250.
Flash: AF240FT(2), AF500FTZ, AF360FGZ(2), AF540FGZ(2), AF160FC Ringflash (deceased )
Software: Adobe Lightroom 3, Photoshop CS5, Photomatix Pro, Noise Ninja, iWatermark, Picasa 3.
Backpack Bag: Tamrac Expedition 7x, Lowepro Fastpack 350, Lowepro Vertex 100AW, Lowepro Slingshot 200AW
Shoulder Bag: Tamrac 613 Super Pro 13, Lowepro Stealth Reporter 500AW, Lowepro S&F Reporter 300AW

When you add it all up even producing A4 prints isn't cheap. I reckon about 75p using Canon ink and paper although the printer should be a good deal cheaper.

Mike

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You can see some of my shots at my Flickr account.

i already have a decent A4 printer peter and thats what im going to do didnt quite realise how much A3 printers were

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Emma
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." Aaron Siskind
Bodies K20D, Pentax MZ-6, LTL 3, K1000d
Lenses Samsung 18-55mm, Sigma 50mm macro, Pentax 50mm, Pentax 135mm, Tamron 70-300 macro, Hanimax 28mm
Others Metz 48 and lots of bits

I have a Epson A3 (Photo 1400) that prints up to A3+. I like the full control over the process this gives me, as well as the superior print quality compared with the companies that I have used before for large prints when I only had a A4 printer.

It isn't cheap, however. I bought my printer for £ 225.00 (but the price has since gone up) and inks are £ 10.99 each (there are six cartridges - Owl type).

Friends/colleagues are amazed by the quality of the prints.

(Basically, you pays yer money and takes yer choice!)

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El Dingo - K10D

I also use the 1400 a very good photo printer for the money, i can get (sometimes) the inks for as low as £5 each and they are genuine, I would never use compatibles, not only may the colours be wrong but i have found in the past they dry out and wreck the print heads, no problem with genuine ones.
But if you want to do mainly "black and white" then you will have to spend a load more cash on a printer.
For A4 stuff i use another Epson printer that’s even cheaper to run.

Canon ix4000 never had a paper jam once and it prints excellent quality photo's

Inks are about £7-£14 per ink depending where you buy.