Luminous Landscape has a nice review of a 24" HP Z3100: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...0-review.shtml

At $4000 for the 24" model and $6200 for hte 44" model, it's not cheap. But no need to swap gloss and matte black is a major advantage for those like myself who have a budget for only one large format machine and want the versitility to print both. And the GLOP (Gloss Enhancer) could be a major step forward in terms of even finish quality with pigment inks on gloss - I'm not sure why Epson has yet to get GLOP from their 1800 into their professional models... hopefully soon they'll be able to add additional chanels to their current 8 chanel head.

The only drawbacks I've seen listed for the HP Z3100 so far have been problems with heavy media where the curl isn't held down resulting in 'zebra' gouges / strikes... no small problem, but hopefully one that will be solved. And some say it's difficult to load sheets into the HP Z series compared to epsons or canons.

Anyone here have an HP Z3100 yet? Is it as good as it looks on paper? Any regrets?

Not from your files, but free generic HP Z3100 print samples from http://h30267.www3.hp.com/country/us...pageseq=533807