Digital BW, The Print

If I were doing colour prints, I'd look very closely at the Canon. For 
black and white I'm happy with Epson. The 2880 has three black 
cartridges in use at a time - full black (either for matt paper or for 
for glossy - these are the two which must be swapped) and light black 
and light light black which are used with both types of paper. If you're 
just using one type of paper you won't be swapping the black.

There's lots of information on using Epson printers for monochrome 
printing - more than for other printers. Do a search for Paul Roark (a 
lot of good advice and also a developer of custom monochrome ink sets). 
Also there's an affordable monochrome RIP available for some Epson 
printers (including the R2880) - search for QuadToneRip or Roy Harrington.

Any way of printing your images at low volume will be expensive compared 
with getting it done commercially ... even if you ignore the cost of the 
printer. Quality paper and ink are both expensive in low volumes - 
especially ink!

On 13/01/2011 20:17, schlett istvan wrote:
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> 2. The Canon has 10 inks, the Epson has 8. While I am not very 
> interested in the color inks, I discovered that the Canon has 3 black 
> cartriges, while the Epson has 2. (which must be changed manually in 
> the detriment of precious ink. Do you consider that the Epson produces 
> better B&W photo quality?
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