I feel like this shouldn't be a question I need to ask, yet, I don't see anything else current in the category... As I've been out of practice for well over a year, I'd like to start getting back into things...
With the purchase of a new computer and a new 4x5 camera, I think I'd like to get into printing.. Previously, I'd contact print and then pay a lab to enlarge if I wanted something bigger. I already have an Epson Perfection 2450, and with a new iMac in place I have the capability to scan and work larger files.. I just don't know what to output on.
When I last gave this serious thought, around the time I picked up the 2450, the Epson 1280 printer was the choice to beat.. I still see the 1280 being sold, but in the last two years surely there's been some serious ground gained.
I'd like to print 4x5 B&W prints and colour 645 both scanned with my current 2450, and have no issue if I have to turn to aftermarket inks. I also don't need to be the leading edge of technology, but I don't want to purchase somethign destined for the short list.
I'd like to keep expenditures to under $400, and the closer I come into $300 the better.
What's the vast majority of people using these days? Besides real enlargers, coz I don't have the space.
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