Which plotter to choose?

[designtcd]

Hello everyone,

Last year we bought HP Latex 360, the price of consumables for it is
color 770ml - 140e
head - 140e
Maintenance kit - 160e

Can you help me, this seemed too expensive for us to maintain and a lot of consumables which are very expensive. The heads are mostly changed at about 3-4l because after that they start leaving lines with 8 passes.

We are not some big printing company. We are considering switching to the Roland SP-540i or the Epson SureColor 40610, what do you think?

What is the difference between plotters, which is better, which is cheaper for us to maintain and similar?

 

[balstestrat]

Roland with some aftermarket ink is probably the cheapest, as long as we assume there is no $2000 need to replace a printhead etc etc.
Epson is probably great machine overall. I don't think the ink is that cheap tho. Neither the printhead.