No joke, hands down best little out of the box printer.
Just like others the variance of the core length on some banners is an issue, but we use ours strictly for adhesive vinyl and poster paper. We have (2) larger 1624's that we run all banner material on, the 1324 can handle the smaller banner rolls of 38" easy just the same, its really only the 54" banner cores that are an issue.
Easy to maintain, we operate ours on the bulk ink system to match up our other machines and it runs like a dream. We have many times ran full rolls overnight to the takeup reel with no problem.