I suppose it might be because you are excited, but I am having a hard time parsing your question about the roll printing. I have a 10600 which is a similar printer from the same generation. Your printer may be 24" wide, but it will go down to at least 8.5x11 sheets if you so wish to feed each sheet by hand. If I needed to print a bunch of 8.5" wide stuff, I would just get a roll small enough for it to make sense.
One really small annoyance is that the smallest sheet size it will accept is 8.5x11. By that I mean that, if I had an a5 something, I would still have to print it letter sized on the roll or whatever. I guess it seems odd because I can send any size to my RIP, no matter how small.
As for the cleaning and all that, I think that people in general don't realize how much better these machines work than the thing that sits on their desktop, gathering dust. For that, I am grateful.