The 4900 at the current reduced price is an awesome value. Note that if you buy it locally, you will pay tax on the full original amount, rather than the reduced sale price. At least, that was my experience. (I like giving business to my local retailers to keep them in business.) Still, a great value, and I am looking forward to being able to do longer prints from rolls -- the panoramas I've begun working with. However, as to your issue with gloss differential on your 2200's, you should be able to mitigate this with the judicial use of added grain. I began experimenting with this (using Nik ColorEfex Pro) when printing some casual shots I took at a friend's daughter's wedding. I add 9 percent in each of the three tonal areas (lights, medium tones, and shadows) with a zero saturation. This is less than Nik's default setting for each category. The result is that the prints look less "digital" and there is an impression of increased sharpness. You don't notice the grain; you just notice the improved appearance. Be careful, however, in large light areas without detail, such as sky. I was further encouraged about adding this to my work flow on most prints when I read on this forum about others also adding grain. The experimentation with grain was for prints on my 3880. For what it's worth, I also increase ink load 10 percent, with an increased drying time of 10 whatever-it-is (milliseconds?). The idea of a sparse application of ink to the page never appealed to me. I know how you feel about your 2200's, as I had two that died recently within months of each other. But I got a 3880 a year ago, and when you hold up identical prints to compare between the 2200 and the 3880, you and any of your friends will say with the naked eye that the 3880 prints are sharper. The 4900 has an expanded gamut and other improvements since the 2200, among them improved dithering algorithms.