A2 Colour Printer..

Scott-Copywriter

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Can anyone recommend a decent A2 Colour printer for me please. I'm sick of paying extortionate prices for special offer posters for the Sandwich shops.

thanks.

I'll be surprised if you find one for less than £1000, so I'm not sure if it will be more cost effective for you to buy one. That doesn't even include ink and A2 sheets of paper.

Check out some of the printers on here like TMS-Print. You might be able to find a more affordable solution.
 
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Brian McIntosh

I print all my own pictures on an Epson 3800. There is a newer version out in the 3880 but with paper at nearly £1 and well over per sheet and a full set of inks with a maintenance cartridge coming in at nearly £400, it's great for photographs but not economically viable for posters I don't think. Maybe, as others have suggested, outsourcing is the way forward for you.
 
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http://www.minutemanbristol.com/products-services.html might work better as a starting point ;)

speaking from personal experience we have the Epson 3800 (A2+) and the 9880 (A0+).
I would strongly promote the 3800 / 3880 as a printer.

It costs £1 / A4 size for paper & ink, so A2 is c. £4 - not expensive for one-off, maybe so for multiple.

What was interesting was that when we bought it we were looking to replace our A3+ printer - The then Epson A3 was the 2400 at c. £550 but it only came with 11ml of ink in its cartridges, whereas the 3800 came with 80ml of ink. To buy the A3 & 6 extra sets of ink cartridges to give a total of 77ml per colour (less than the A2) was £5 more than buying the A2 printer... Sometimes, if you have the capital buying the bigger printer really does save money.

We use it for colour proofing for our design company and for archival prints for my two photographic businesses, it really is a fabulous printer.

So do look at the Epson A2 printers - worth every penny!

Alasdair
 
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