Digital BW, The Print

Hello David,

>My year old Epson 2200 decided that it forgot how to feed paper
>reliably over the past couple of days.
>Fortunately I bought the printer at CompUSA with a 2 year replacement
>warranty. CompUSA gave 100% of my original purchase price toward any
>other printer -- the R2400 was the obvious choice.

This is EXACTLY what happened to me, except my 2200 paper feed
mechanism got sick with only 30 days left on the warranty - that's
cutting it close.  They honored the warranty with full value,
including sales tax, so I got the 2400 for a little over $100 (plus
tax, another warranty, etc).


>The 2400 is SUCH a better printer. Being able to print quality 
>black & white directly from Photoshop is such a huge time saver 
>-- no need for Qimage or QTRGui anymore. Less software between 
>what I see on the screen and what appears on paper is nothing but 
>a good thing in my book. My workflow has been enormously 
>simplified overnight.

Yes, yes, and yes.  Please have a look at the simple workflow I've
outlined on my web site.  It's article #9 at the link below.

 
>Not to mention that the prints come much, much faster and the noise
level during printing is no comparison more quiet. And the darn thing
just looks good.

Yes, yes, and yes, again. 

I was hesitant to give up the trusty 2200 for an unknown using color
inks, but once I figured it out was very happy I did.  The 2400 is a
really fine machine. 

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm