Buying A3 printer

Hi
Recently I have been asked to archive the 19th and 20th documents of our family business. For this I need an A3 printer as many of the documents are larger than A4. I have already bought the A3 scanner.
However, the HP A3 printers I have been looking at are the B8850, B8550, B9180. I am now confused as each has good points and not so good points. As a non-technical person I don't want a printer that is so complicated I can't operate it. On the other hand the print quality of the scans needs to be excellent and to last some time. These prints will be used instead of the original old documents as they are delicate due to age, should historians and interested parties wish to see them. The other concern is that some of the ink cartridges seem to run out quickly and some of the printer heads appear to need changing quite often.
I'm hoping someone will be able to give some further guidance, please
Many thanks
A

I'm able to print without difficulty from my Intel Core Duo iMac to a 1022 using the non-universal driver. The only thing that isn't working are a couple of panels in the print dialog, which aren't necessary for the bulk of printing needs.
I'd try the shipping driver first before trying to mess with some unsupported method.

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