Digital BW, The Print

Alan:  Other than printer cost the big decission you have to make is 
OEM inksets that can also print color or 3rd party inksets that are 
optimized for B/W only.  The OEM inks and native Epson drivers create 
very good/excellent B/W prints with the 2400 right out of the box --
hence the strong recommendations.  The R1800/R800 printer, although it 
has 3 black/gray inks, only uses 2 at any one time with the Epson 
driver.  For smoothness I've found you need 3 or 4 black/gray inks.  
Therefore if you go the R1800/R800 route, you will need to go the rip 
and third party inks (I use QTR and modified MIS inkset described by 
Paul Roark -- MIS K4+Ccm.  www.paulroark.com