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If you want to print in oversized, I can readily recommend the Epson ET 8550.
It's a 6 tank A3+ photo/poster printer for under โฌ800. If you got the use case for these (say as a photographer or an artist or you just want to print your own posters) then it's a really good model.
Unlike it's closest rival in the semi-professional market from Canon, the tanks make ink very cheap to operate, the vast vast vast majority of the printing cost is going to be the paper. It has a damn good printing quality even on mostly dark prints, it's quite fast for documents spitting them out in 3-5 seconds each so for personal use it's not meaningfully behind a laser. Quite variable, too, you can take the back off and feed whatever material you want in there with a huge clearance for thick plates to print on.
Sure, it's not something the average user ever needs but if you are looking for something like this, I can recommend it.
Interesting. What's the total price per sheet on decent paper? I do a few hundred A3 prints a week.
It's difficult to say as a lot depends on your specific use case and what you print and on which paper.
For my main use case, I bought a 100-pack of relatively inexpensive satin a3+ poster paper (so only 280g, but eh, they get put on the wall with something like poster strips or tack, I hardly need them to be thicker) which comes down to ~78cents per sheet. Ink usage is difficult to measure because my prints differ wildly in how much color is on them but my average so far seems to be ~50 cents per max quality a3+ print. So ~โฌ1,30 per full size print if I want to be slightly pessimistic about it. But some of them were probably more like 85 cents total. ๐
The ink bottles really last a long time. Check your local prices but over here they cost โฌ22 a bottle to replace, the printer has two blacks (one is pigment based for documents and stationary and so on), CMY and a 60% Gray, they all cost the same here but might be different for you. And then of course depends on what you print.
What I sadly cannot say is what A3 would cost, but scaling down you should be looking at roughly 20% less ink costs per print for full-size graphics prints, and then of course the paper you're printing on. But that's just mathing it down from my A3+ prints.
Thanks for doing the math. I have a deal with a commercial printer for slightly less, so it appears I won't be changing. Rather not have the hassle either, in fairness.
Oh that's quite fair, plus at that volume it helps to not have the risk of the printing process on yourself on top of everything else. ๐