I would bet it has an almost imperceptible gamut improvement, and everything else is unchanged.
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No it's a big improvement over the past series. Yet there is no reason why it wasn't done beforehand, nor is there any reason why current users shouldn't benefit with their Z3100 printers.
You have to know that on optimized media the prints on the Z are on par with any of the other LFPs .
Albert Watson has a show in Cologne with some new prints on the new Z, Douglas Kirkland, Thomas Hoepker which will be as usual as good as they can be. They will be as good as or better than darkroom prints, and let the photography talk for itself, as it should.
The problem though is when using third party or non optimised media that there are surprises.
That is why a Baryta that is made for the Z is a good thing as most of the other Baryta so far on HP are problematic. Even with the best Baryta I've ever seen , the Hahenmuhle PhotoRag Baryta (the new one) with HP inks you have to fight with wiping off a haze, bronzing in the light grey, bronzing in the light colours, gloss uniformity. Those are problems that Epson users experience less or not at all. Canon fixed their problems by changing the magenta, and their reds were always great with the 12 ink systems. They changed the greys to reduce bronzing to near zero.
Although the entry of the Z was spectacular, this news doesn't have anything in the way of a promise other than what should have been designed in the first place.