Digital BW, The Print

Hi John,

The answer is a bit hypothetical at the moment.  I've had a very limited
look at the 4800 and none at the 2400.  But all-in-all the difference boils 
down to the addition of a light-light-black.  Everything else is pretty much
the same (at least for 4000 --> 4800).  The LLK will give smoother highlights
at least for warm tone prints.  But to make a cool print the same LC and LM
inks are used in the highlights so they are probably not very different than
before.  The 2400 has some significant benefits in that the heads are much
larger -- 180 jets/ink rather than 96 jets/ink -- and also the dropsizes are
somewhat smaller.  This ought to help in speed.

I don't know how you'd quantify the difference -- the new printers are probably
able to make smoother prints.  But it depends how critically you look at them
whether you'd notice the difference.

There is also the issue that they are new inks which reportedly handle
glossy media better than before.  The "gloss differential" is probably better
because the LLK ink can be used in the very light areas of the print i.e. some
of the benefit of gloss optimizer.

Roy


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
> 
> We still don't have any answer to his question? Especially: QTR-2200 vs QTR - 
2400
> This is an importaint issue for hundreds of people, including me. The big printers 
aren't 
> out yet for us to test. But there are those of you with these and the 4800's.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> e:
> > Has anyone with a 2200 and a 2400 done any side by sides of the same 
> > image. I'm using QTR with my 2200 and would like to know if there is a 
> > difference between prints using this or IJC and the Epson Driver with 
> > the 2400? For that matter a 2400 using QTR.
> > 
> > John H