Best Large-Format Printers for Artists (2026): Make Prints You Can Actually Sell

If you're serious about selling prints, the Epson SureColor P900 is the printer most working fine-art photographers and printmakers settle on — and for good reason. Its 10-channel UltraChrome PRO12 pigment ink set lays down deep blacks, a wide color gamut, and gallery-grade tonal smoothness on everything from glossy photo paper to heavy cotton rag.

At 17 inches wide it prints up to 17×22" sheets and longer panoramas from roll paper, which covers the print sizes that actually sell. It's the workhorse behind a lot of Etsy and gallery print businesses, and it pays for itself fast once you're moving editions.

The PRO-1100 is Canon's 17" answer to the P900, and the two trade blows at the top of the category. It runs an 11-color LUCIA PRO II pigment set with a Chroma Optimizer that evens out gloss, and Canon's strength has long been black-and-white printing — if you sell monochrome photography or ink drawings, its neutral, deep grayscale is a genuine reason to pick it over the Epson.

Like the P900 it's a full archival pigment machine, so prints carry the same 100+ year fade resistance and "giclée" credibility. Choosing between them mostly comes down to ecosystem and B&W: Canon for the cleanest monochrome, Epson for its slightly wider third-party paper support.

The PRO-310 is the smart middle path: archival pigment inks like the big 17" machines, but in a 13"-wide body that costs and weighs a lot less. You give up the largest sheet sizes, but you keep the thing that actually matters for selling — true fade-resistant, giclée-quality prints up to 13×19".

It's the printer to buy when you want to make prints you can honestly market as archival, but a $1,100+ machine is more than your volume justifies yet.

The PRO-200S is the best way to start selling prints without a four-figure outlay. It's a dye-based 13" printer, and dye inks produce gorgeous, punchy, saturated color — often more immediately vivid than pigment, especially on glossy paper. For vibrant photography, bold illustration, and anime/poster-style art, the results are stunning straight out of the box.

It's the printer to buy first, learn on, and earn with — then graduate to a pigment machine once your volume and price points justify it.

When you need to sell posters, large open editions, or oversized reproductions, you need width — and the T3170x prints up to 24" wide on both sheets and rolls. It's a different tool than the photo printers above: built for volume and large format, with a roll feeder that makes long panoramas and big editions practical.

It uses Epson's UltraChrome pigment inks, so large prints are still fade-resistant — important when a single big piece sells for real money. This is the printer for artists whose work is meant to be seen big.