A printer to print panoramas

[presch]

Gidday,
I'm looking for a six cartridge printer that can print on roll paper for printing panoramas of a maximum width of 8.2" (210mm).
I prefer Canon but nothing that I can find in that brand in my price range prints anything longer than about 23" which is pretty useless.
Any brand other than HP would be acceptable as long as there's a reasonably priced CISS available for it and it's under AU$300 (US$250).
Any suggestions?
Thanks

 

[ghwellsjr]

Try the Epson Stylus 870, 875DC, 1270, & 2000P printers. They use a roll paper that is 8.3" by 32' long. It costs about a $1 a foot.

 

[presch]

Try the Epson Stylus 870, 875DC, 1270, & 2000P printers. They use a roll paper that is 8.3" by 32' long. It costs about a $1 a foot.

Thanks for that.
I'm having trouble locating specs and price of the 875DC. Is the model number correct?

 

[ghwellsjr]

I got the printer numbers from a website describing the paper so I don't know anything beyond that. It could be that the 875DC is only available outside the USA and maybe the same printer as the 870.

 

[mikling]

The 875DC & 870 is circa 2000-2001. Both are photoprinters except that the 875DC uses a memory card adapter for laptops and is USB only whereas the 870 also supported a parallel connection. As you might guess both have been out of production for quite a while. I once owned an 875DC.

Despite being able to be fed from a roll, please check the drivers to determine if the length you desire is supported. Usually the maximum length is 44". Rolls can produce output with lots of curl so one needs to have a process of flattening subsequent to output.

Current printers that accept rolls are the Epson R800, R1800 and R2400. The R1400 I believe has the same limitation as Canon in the output length. The R1900 will soon supersede the R1800. Just like the Canon Pro 9000 superseded the i9900; from an ownership standpoint, I find the i9900 to be better, a similar situation might result in the changeover from the R1800 to R1900. There's no word on what will happen to the narrow carriage R800 but I suspect it will be dropped altogether.