A2 printers - tell me about and recommendations?

[Jonny69]

When I was at university A2 printers seemed to be fairly readily available. Now they are a bit thin on the ground. Can anybody recommend one?

Do they take standard cartidges? I think I remember they took the same ones as the A4 and A3 printers and you had to change them all the time! What sort of initial outlay should I be looking at and what are the running costs like?

 

[ash_scotland88]

i would say a2 running costs would be 4times as high as a4, think about it paper is 4times as big.

 

[Jonny69]

Yep, but the consumables aren't the same are they? A2 paper used to be bleedin' expensive compared to 4 A4 sheets! Don't get the same economies of scale on the small cartridges they use in the A4 printers if it's a bigger unit etc etc.