Yeah, what Barry said. I have been itching to get a photo printer for a few years and have held off. Because I wasn't yet satisfied (and can't afford a lightjet) send your prinitng out. or get trad color prints. When the new canon comes out wait until the bleeding edgers have have made their reports and then gotten over their adrenaline reuch And come back more coherently. UV fast magenta/red pigments are difficult and expensive to make. I imagine a water-based one is moreso. In the print industry UV fast magenta in costs over twice as much. IN stained glass I have heard the same is true.(posted 8817 days ago)Pamper your cash flow and learning curve. Get a scanner and focus on that end of things. If the money is really burning a hole in your pocket, buy a new lens, or some lighting, or hire a model and do some more shooting. Remember what your sights are purportedly on. Get your head out of the damn monitor and do photography. Unless your goal is to be a digital imaging geek instead of a fashion photographer.
you said "I wonder if there is any way to turn the History of any image I work on in Photoshop into an Actions macro thingie so I can just re-do any images I end up getting scanned professionally, instead of having to start from scratch."
You can do it, but I don't reccomend it. Because the data you get from a PMT will be a different set. Applying the same actions on it will give you different results. Many of the tweaks you do on a low-end scan you are doing because it is a low-end scan.