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Andrew… The Fargo printer with Dye Sublimation upgrade prints near photographic quality prints up to around 8×10 inches. The cost is about $3 per print. The reproduction is done with "dots" screening but it isn't noticeable until you look at the print with a lupe, much the same as any high quality magazine. For the price the Primera is one of the great bargins to be had for the Amiga. The next competing printers are from Kodak and Tektronics and cost in the $8,000 to $10,000 range. The resolution of the Fargo Primera is the same as the $20,000 Kodak dye sub printer, 203 dots per inch. I have a Primera and love it. My only regret is that I don't have more time to use it. One cavaet – you need lots of ram in your Amiga to print at the highest quality. Only ImageFX (as far as I know) lets you print to the Fargo and use hard drive memory as virtual ram. I have 14 megs of ram in my A3000 and it isn't near enough to work with the 18meg images I work with in the office with the MAC systems. If you plan on working with large images you should have twice the amount of ram as the image you plan on working with (example you should have at least 12 megs to work with a 6 meg image file). ..Carl