u/Kalekuda

previously, goats such as Vailis, which were the only kind I had ever found in survival, required chiseled baffled-floors to sort the kids from the adults.

But the glorious (and current title holder of "Thing which has killed me more than anything else in 1.22") Mouflon goats can be filtered with ordinary trapdoors! Do with this information what you will.

(I will be factory farming them for 12 generations such that 12 generations of their offspring shall suffer for the sins of their wildtype ancestors... Why do these rams deal 7 damage on each charge, move faster than the player does AND have the ability to juggle you against terrain!? Seriously- they're more dangerous than deep shivers!)

ET8550 ~600-700$ USD
ET2803 ~180-200$ USD

From a "quality of the results" perspective, they have the same resolution: 5760 x 1440, but the ET8550 has 48bit color depth compared to the ET2803's 24bit color depth, and ET8550 uses 2 extra ink types to achieve that outcome.

The ET8550 can do larger paper sizes of 13x19inch compared to the 8.5x14inch of the ET2803, but most of the papers used in this hobby tend to be ANSI A or A4 sheets which they both can handle just fine.

They can both, presumably, handle printing foils (https://www.reddit.com/r/magicproxies/comments/1t8bld4/my\_2\_month\_proxy\_journey/) so I have to ask: What is the ET8550 bringing to the table that makes it the gold standard when it's 3 times the price of a printer that can the same things?

As far as I can tell, you'd either need to want the color depth and be willing to pay ~400$+ for it, or you'd need to plan to print huuuuge stuff, but that isn't really pertinent for this hobby. I'm just confused as to how the community decided that the ET8550 or ET8500 were the go to printers? Maybe I'm missing something?

The new Mouflon goats can be factory farmed without chiseling.

The ET8550 vs the ET2803: What features justify the 8550 being 3 times as expensive from the perspective of this hobby?