I use a pre4-cursor of the Pixma range, the canon s9000, (up to A3 zero bleed) and can't rate it highly enough - especially as I won it from computer arts magazine a few years ago :). It's produced thousands of pages on different paper types from daughter homework to A3 photos and has coped well with all. I would only say that the advanced driver options are not all that good, but that's not a great loss!

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.