Digital BW, The Print

Hello Steven,

After getting a D70s I was about ready to buy an r220.  Now, after
seeeng your message I am unsure about it.  Would you then recommend to
skip the 220 and get the 300?  I think I can get the r300 for a good
price here in germany, in fact for about the same price of the 220. 
As I planned to follow Paul Roarks/Inksupply.com instructions for B&W
printing with the 220, do they still work with the r300 or will I need
to set up things differently?

I would appreciat very much anny comments.

Sebastian

PS: first post here and new to B&W printing...


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven
Karafyllakis" <stevekphoto@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings to all from the land of Ouzo
> 
> At this point I've owned 2 each of the above printers: an R200, 
> R220, and an R300 & R340. I had initially assumed when I went from 
> the R300 to the R200 that since the mechanics were the same, the 
> print quality would also be as good. I was dissapointed: the R300 
> was flawless, the R200 banded right out of the box, and no amount of 
> cleaning/alignment fixed it. I eventually ran it into the ground 
> doing color proofs, and replaced it with a new R220. It was even 
> worse, exhibiting a cyan registration problem so severe that it is 
> useless even for color proofing. It will go back to Epson, with a 
> hail of curses. Needing a color proofer in a hurry, I bought an R340 
> on July 4th sale for $130, not too painfull. It printed beautifully, 
> almost perfect on all channels, excellent BO, and good enough to 
> separate out 4-5 channels for making banding free internegatives.
> 
> So: is this luck of the draw, or am I seeing a pattern? The R300 
> series printers seem to be made in Phillipines (at least mine were) 
> but the R200 printers were made in China. My suspicion is the QC 
> and/or manufacturing standards of the Chinese printers is not equal 
> to the Phillipine ones.  
> 
> Does anyone have any experiences to relate here? Any opinions?
> 
> Steven Karafyllakis
> 
> On dial-up from Greece-I miss my DSL!
>