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I'd used an Epson Stylus Color 3000 for some years (an earlier version of Epson A2 printer). When everything went right, it produced superb results for a printer of that era. The 3880 improves on it in most respects - physically smaller when all folded up, much improved interface that reduces the tendency to print landscape on portrait paper and vice versa, better colours and resolution, and borderless printing. Photo printing on Epson paper gives probably the best results that you're going to get from an inkjet. Photo printing on plain paper is poor, but that's not what this printer is made for (HP printers probably do best on plain paper).
The use of separate black inks for different paper types can be expensive - the printer wastes a lot of ink changing black cartridges, so it's best to stick to one type of paper unless you have a particular reason to change. Epson printers also have a reputation (which my 3000 lived up to) of suffering from head blockages. The 3880 hasn't had this problem yet, but it has fixed heads like the 3000, so may do eventually. However, if your priority is print quality for photos on photo paper, you won't beat this printer. I would strongly recommend using Epson paper with the printer - I've had disappointing results on other papers, and I would also recommend only using Epson inks (no, I don't work for them) to avoid head blockages.
The use of separate black inks for different paper types can be expensive - the printer wastes a lot of ink changing black cartridges, so it's best to stick to one type of paper unless you have a particular reason to change. Epson printers also have a reputation (which my 3000 lived up to) of suffering from head blockages. The 3880 hasn't had this problem yet, but it has fixed heads like the 3000, so may do eventually. However, if your priority is print quality for photos on photo paper, you won't beat this printer. I would strongly recommend using Epson paper with the printer - I've had disappointing results on other papers, and I would also recommend only using Epson inks (no, I don't work for them) to avoid head blockages.
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