Hi Alex,

I have had a read through this thread and found it very interesting.

I am researching an A3 printer at the moment, and was looking at the SG800. However, the fact that it only uses 4 colour inks suggested to me it might have some limitations on its colour gamut compared to a printer with more colours (I am now using a Canon Imagegraf Pro-1000 for my photo prints, which has 12 ink cartridges). The SCP 600 might be a solution to this issue.

I wonder if you, or anybody else has done any tests of the colour gamut between the SG800 and the SCP600?

In addition, are you aware of any information on the durability of prints made with InkTek inks compared to Sawgrass inks?

Finally, do the InkTek inks have a posted, or real use by date? Sawgrass inks appear to have a published shelf life in the printer of six months. Are InkTek similar? To be honest, this could be a red herring in the selection process. I was using an Epson3800 for photo printing until quite recently. Some of the inks were used at a much slower rate than others, and when I finished the cartridges I saw that they were well out of date, but never had any problems with the printer performance, colour shifts or nozzle blocks. It was the failure of one of the well used ink colours that finally killed this printer.


Paul