I had been using a Canon A4 printer for nearly 7 years before its printer head started to block, which I was unable to clear after many days of trying. For nearly as long I had wanted an A3 printer, but it was a want rather than a need so I put off the purchase. At last I had an excuse to purchase an A3 printer, but which one? My Canon had given me good service, however, on reading various reviews I was taken towards the Epson 1400, it had 6 inks rather than 4 with reference to the equivalent Canon, it looked better in my eyes, which is a bennefit if you looks at it every day, but the clincher was when I saw some samples on the net of its output. The yellows were yellow and not a compromise, and it actually seemed capable of resonable B&W output. As much of my output is of an abstract form and I like to colour B&W images with areas of colour I decided to go for the Epson.
On receiving the printer I connected it to my computer and was amazed at how little I actually had to do to set it up. After inserting the driver and program disc supplied, I fitted the 6 ink cartridges, it was then only a matter a few minutes before I was ready to print. The first print I selected was an A4 colour and B&W print which I had only a few weeks earlier printed on my Canon, thus I had a reference print ready at hand. The Epson soon printed out its own version which at first viewing did not seem as good, however, I was using inexpensive photo quaility paper so I loaded a piece of higher quailty paper. This produced an excellent result, thus I tried an A3 of the same image which I can only say amazed me, especially as I had not had to make any changes within the printer software. The quality of colour and sharpness was outstanding, and although I do not know what the Canon equivalent would produce I was very satisfield with this purchase.
After obtaining a few more packs of glossy and matt A3 paper I started to print out numerous other prints looking for various colours and sharpness, and soon realised A3 had become my new enprint size. I was so pleased with some of the prints I actually did more copies of the same just to convince me that it was not a fluke. I obtained about 30 A3 print from a set of cartridges.