4880 as a sheet fed printer

[jjlphoto]

Love my 3800. Epson has a scream'in rebate on their new 4880. Seems that the ink cost drops by almost half if you buy the 220ml carts compared to the 3800, so it would almost seem to pay for itself in less than a year as my volume on my 3800 has been going up and up lately.

I print cut sheets, 8x10, 17x22. Don't want to deal with curling/uncurling rolled paper right now. Any reason not to like the 4880?

[colinm]

Depends: Are you taking advantage of the 3800's capability to make borderless prints?

If you're printing with borders, a 4880 should be a pretty seamless transition, and leave you the option of rolls down the road.

If you're printing borderless, the 3880's the only upgrade path that allows full borderless printing on sheets.

[Gemmtech]

WOW, is that bizarre, you can print borderless using the 3800/3880 but not the 4880.  They always leave something out.  It's funny because you can use roll paper with an Epson 1280 and do borderless.

I guess an Epson 7900 in a 17" version that has the glossy capabilities of the dye printers with the longevity of the pigment inks, roll and cut sheet media with borderless printing with unlimited length panos, 16x20 print in 1 minute!  Sounds like a winner.  

[Peter McLennan]

I run a 4800, not a 4880, but I believe the paper transports are similar, if not identical.  I rarely use rolls.  I have the same issues with curling and waste that you do.  I single-feed from the front, either letter size or 17X22 with few problems over the two or three years I've had the printer.  Recently, I've been getting "reload paper" errors, which are annoying but not fatal.

[Murph]

I use sheets 100%, the only annoyance I have is that the 4880 leaves a wider border on one side of the paper, almost 1/4 inch or so maybe a little more that makes my borders uneven.  Love the 4880 though, when I upgraded from the R2400.  Plus I love printing 16x20 and 17x22 prints.  It IS a little picky about making sure that the paper is correctly loaded and straight.  The paper tray works really well for the 8 1/2 x 11 papers from Epson.  I have not tried it for the larger papers yet.  It definately takes some getting used to in terms of getting what you see on the monitor to translate to a print.  I am learning it a little more every day.

[jjlphoto]

It definately takes some getting used to in terms of getting what you see on the monitor to translate to a print.  I am learning it a little more every day.

Why would it be any different from any other properly profiled printer?