Hi all, I’m a keen photographer and currently send my images off to be printed but the cost is crippling me. I am looking for a printer that will print up to A3 on a photorag style paper with no loss in sharpness or colour.
Any ideas or personal experiences/recommendations would be great.

If you think a specialist printer is expensive, effectively buying their printer to have at home is going to be rather steep.

Epson or canon. If you don’t do the volume then a canon will be less likely to clog if left unused and a head is user replaceable (and cheap) whereas an epson isn’t user serviceable and is toast once the print head goes. They do eat ink when going through a cleaning cycle if they have been left standing.
Northlight imaging have some good printer reviews.
There is also the replacement ink systems from marrutt and I think permajet if you want to save on high volume printing.
I think there are some newer printers with bigger carts now as some are far too small and the customer backlash on cart prices has meant offering more VFM

I have both these printers for my business, both very good and good prints

http://www.ricoh-europe.com/products/printers/colour/aficiogx-e7700n.aspx

http://www.epson.co.uk/gb/en/viewcon/corporatesite/products/mainunits/overview/2044

Thank you MrSmith and I understand that TooTall but I thought I look into it as a few people have have asked me the question and the truth was I didnt really know if there would be much in it. Its also the convenience of having a printer at home to use on demand. Sometimes you end up printing 2 or 3 times before your happy with the final image even with soft proofing.

I was choosing a home office printer recently and I read that you basically have to be doing A LOT of printing at A3 to make it worth buying your own.

oh, thats interesting Wallop. this is my main concern. as some months I may print 20 others only 5.