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Epson 4800
I have had a lot of experience with Epson printers.  For my photo printing, I started with an Epson P2000 back at the turn of the century.  I then graduated through the 4000, 4800, 3800 then the 4900 printer.  All of them except the 3800 had issues with clogging, but from the 4000 onward all of them also produced fine prints, quality excelling gradually over time till it reached a high level of maturity.

The Epson 4900
The Epson 4900 as many know makes truly great prints, but must be used very regularly to avoid wasting time and ink with head cleanings. Fortunately, once cleaned before the start of a print cycle, it would not re-clog during printing - my experience, but some others report otherwise. Then other...

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Mark Segal
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Mark has been making photographs for the past six decades and started adopting a digital workflow in 1999 first with scanning film, then going fully digital in 2004. He has worked with a considerable range of software, equipment and techniques over the years, accumulated substantial experience as an author, educator and communicator in several fields and is a frequent contributor to the Luminous-Landscape website. Mark developed a particular interest in film scanning and authored the ebook “Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop” available on the SilverFast website. In his “other life” (the one that pays for the photography), Mark is a retiree from the World Bank Group and now a consultant in electric power development.
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