Purchase advice? Considering the Epson Stylus Photo R3000 Inkjet Printer

Please advise - we're considering the purchase of the Epson Stylus Photo R3000 Inkjet Printer.
Replacing an Epson Stylus Photo R1900 after years of frustration due to no support for printing from Illustrator on a Mac. Many others have posted in frustration as well - a common work-around is to save as PDF, then print from PDF. Our work-around involves PrintFab but we would like to remove that element from the equation.
We have a sizable investment in Epson paper so staying within the Epson family is necessary.
Also must be able to print at 13x19 inches (Super B) which limits our choices.
Given all of the above, can anyone advise for or against the R3000?
Thanks in advance!
-Chris

This Apple document says the driver is available for auto-download and install when you add the printer in Print & Scan:
OS X: Printer and scanner software available for download
OS X has a new paradigm for getting print drivers.
Manufacturers give the current driver(s) to Apple to put on its servers.
OS X keeps an "index" of where to find drivers (whether on the server or already installed on your Mac), and when you Add the printer in Print & Scan prefs, or on demand in the print dialog, OS X finds and uses the driver.
No need to download and install anything yourself.
If your Mac says it can't find the driver, you can force CUPS (OS X's print system) to re-build the index of drivers (both online and already installed drivers) by Resetting Printing System:
OS X Mavericks: Reset the printing system
If you're still not getting it working, you can download and install all the epson drivers from:
Epson Printer Drivers v2.18 for OS X
(you may still need to Reset Printing in order to have the drivers found.)

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