Originally posted by cpk Your position is very similar to mine. I have had an Epson 3880 since 2011. It died recently in that the cost of keeping it going was just not worth it. I decided not to replace it with the current Epson equivalent model, the P800, as that too was fairly expensive for the amount of printing I do. I found a lab to make my final fine art prints and purchased an Epson XP-440 for casual office-type printing. It's a four-colour inkjet printer, and I was surprised that it could do a decent job on my business cards which I had previously printed on the 3880 (photograph on one side and text on the other). I have the Datacolor SpyderPRINT hardware and software and just this morning printed the profiling sheets for two papers on the XP-440. I am hoping the printer will produce decent test prints before I have to go to the outside lab for the final print.
Like me you will have to do your own printer/paper profiling. Good luck with it.
Thanks Charles,
The Canon is a 6 tank printer 5 colors with a big dye ink tank. I can't see spending over $400 for the ColorMunki Photo when I can rent one for 10 days for $50 and profile the paper I will probably use for the next couple of years, I've settled on my ink so i'm not changing that. Did your profiling of the XP-440 improve its output ?