Digital BW, The Print

Hello, Roderick, and thanks for your post.

I'm looking forward to hearing how things go with your second 2400, 
because I have one - my first - in transit to me from Amazon. I'm 
also going to use it for color as well as B&W prints.


I'm not sure what to do about the ink set in the long term, so the 
first thing I'm going to do is order some more Epson cartridges from

<http://www.atlex.com/>

Unless you're already on to Atlex, you might want to check it out as 
source of Epson supplies with good prices and service. I guess it 
would be less good for me if I were in Florida along with Atlex, but 
I live out west and avoid sales tax by using Atlex.

Good luck.
--
Sam



At 2:40 PM +0000 12/31/05, Roderick Vesper wrote:
>
>Well, first let me start by sayin hello to everyone, I look forward to
>future discussions on this new world that I am entering into.
>
>I have resisted digital for years.  I have been a tradional
>photography "purist" in the worst sense.  Then last christmas I got a
>D-70.  Still, I would only print color digitally.  I just didn't buy
>into anything I was seeing, but of course it was mostly a
>psychological resistence.
>
>So, after months of deliberating, I finally decided it was time for me
>to embrace this new B&W media.  I sucked it up and ordered a 2400.  I
>figured that even if it took a while for me to warm up the B&W
>capabilities, I would at least be able to start printing the majority
>of my own color work here at home (sometimes I like to print really
>large is why I say majority.)
>
>Well, I got it out, set it up, and the darn thing was defective.  It
>goes through the motions and I can even smell ink, but it doesn't put
>a darn drop on the paper.  I spent an hour and a half on the phone
>with Epson and they determined that there was something internally
>wrong with the printer. 
>
>Needless to say, this is not the kind of experience that a digital
>resister needs to have.  On the positive side, Epson was very helpful
>and are sending me a new one and a shipping label for the old one (the
>only drawback being that they put a hold on my credit card for the
>second one until the old one gets back to them.)
>
>Well, sorry that my first post is a complaint, I look forward to many
>positive interactions in the near future.
>
>-Roderick