Digital BW, The Print

Ginny

The R2400 is a great printer for colour and B&W requiring no special 
third party software such as RIPs to produce quality prints. I 
upgraded a few months back now because I wanted a better B&W solution 
with no hassle. My 2100 now lies idle. As far as ink usage is 
concerned the light magenta and light cyan plus the blacks are used 
quicker than yellow, cyan and magenta. I recently changed inks to MIS 
K4 with their easyfill clear carts. Quality is still very good and 
the savings are huge. However I do make my own profiles using an 
Eyeone, so I cannot say how good the Epson generic profiles work with 
the MIS inks for colour work. Also as mentioned earlier Roys RIP 
contains a piece of software for making B&W profiles if you have a 
spectro. QTR ICC profile. Used with the Epson advanced B&W mode in 
the printer driver linearises the output and produces the best B&W 
prints I have managed to produce to date. Also while I think of it 
the R2400 has performed brilliantly as far as nozzle blockages. I 
have I think only had to do one cleaning cycle from new. Have a look 
at Clayton's site for more info on BW printing in general and his 
thoughts on R2400.

Regards Peter.