+1 on the 4800/4880/whatever the hell the newest one is that's roll-feed in this category.
Used to have the 3k and it was a lot of tinkering and fussing with it, with settings, with the rips...
...the 4800 is quite robust for an inkjet printer which I typically find to be built like cracker jack prizes. Everything Pierre says is spot-on.
In fact, I was just praising ours because it does give you back a lot of time. Use the roll and get a decent rip. You can set your output and walk way as it prints, cuts, stacks your film up and come back and get it later.
I'll add that repairs are surprisingly do-able on these machines. I successfully installed new heads and some other parts whose names I do not recall. It's still an Epson, still an inkjet (I had to jb-weld some parts back together that snapped when re-installing) but, again, impressed with the way it's built. The 4800series on up are the professional units and it does show.
The 1400 is in an entirely different category but I picked one up for backup and was highly impressed with the films it printed just with the Epson black that came with it. Absolutely the best bang for the buck and readily available just about everywhere so you can get a damage/replacement plan on it and just return it if it's down for a fresh one.
One thing, that anyone who uses Epson's knows about, is that the roll feed loves, I mean absolutely rejoices in wasting as much media as it can. Accurip keeps it under control but when resetting or switching films it just pumps it out for no goddamn reason. This makes having two rolls on-hand - a 14" and 17" let's say - in an effort to swap and conserve film kinda pointless. I can't imagine what photographers using very spendy roll media think about this lovely habit but I can barely tolerate it wasting my $0.70/foot fixxons film. This is probably a flaw of all epson's, maybe they think you're always using epson media and though it a clever way to increase sales of consumables for the machines, I dunno.
