Anyone own the Epson R1800?

[evil4blue]

I'm pretty sure this is the printer I'll be ordering within the next couple weeks, but I still have a few questions.

1. Print head clogging, is this a problem?

2. Glossy paper bronzing, how bad is it?

3. How true in the B&W?

4. How hard was it to setup, was there a lot of tweaking to get good prints out of it?

I'm currently running XP 64-bit, and Epson still doesn't have a driver for it, but they have slowly started releasing drviers for XP-64, my older Epson c84 just got a driver a few days ago so I can't imagine the r1800 not having a driver for too long.

Also, kinda OT, but anyone use a RIP software? I'm kinda new this type of software, does it replace Epson's driver, or does it sit on top of the driver?