A friend of mine whose Kodak printer just went south on him would like to know the ins and outs of profitable printmaking from Poser renders. Where should I point him (esp. because living in a town with seasonal art fairs and tourism, I'd like a piece of the pie, too)? The worst expense with my 785EPX is the carts -- $18 black, $33 5-color tank. But it covers my gamut of printing needs from laser-quality text to beautiful glossy photo prints. In my 20 years of experience between the RX-80 F/T+ dot-matrix printer and the 785EPX inkjet photo, Epson doesn't make junk. However, I did find out that the default settings for Epson paper don't work with other brands because of unusual levels of absorption in the Epson polymer coating -- a little experimentation and I was able to create custom settings for those other brands which look just as good. Not only can the printer tell you how full or empty the tanks are, but the date of manufacture. My beef with laser prints is that when you get close, they look like laser prints, not photos. If the tech's improved I haven't seen a sample demonstrating it.