Digital BW, The Print

Hello,
After MIS CFS issues with my 2100 on UT7, and a few months back to
Epson OEM UC inks, I feel I want to go back to a real good b&w
workflow on my own printer.  

Here are the options I see:

1. Buy a new CFS and reinstall the UT7 workflow - advantage its
proven, and IF it works it works well and cheap in ink. 

2. Buy a CFS with the 3d inks. Except real sepia which I hardly ever
do, is there a disadvantage respectively is it difficult to create
profiles for new papers without expensive hardware equipment? Simply
put: Is UT3d "better" than UT7?

3. Get a HP 9180 and use HP inks. I have received sample prints from
HP, the b&w sample (a bride with a tree behind) was not convincing to
me, but could be the photo, not the printer... The consumables for HP
are a bit less expensive than for the 2400, and I could of course do
color also which I am doing more than in the past, currently mostly
via a lab where I send my files.

4. Use the Epson K3 inks with a 2400 is just too expensive - the
cartridges are burnes too fast, and they are expensive...

Anyway I will wait for Photokina - maybe if the new A2 Epson will hold
big cartridges, in this case it would be a solution, the 4000 series
is too huge, and also too expensive...
I am not making money with my prints.


In any case I will wait for the Photokina announcments next weeks,
then I will order...

Thanks for your input..

Bernie