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Fotospeed in the UK - Quill Continous Ink System for the 2400 - Advice Please

2007-03-30 by reynoll_2000

I bought the 2400 a couple of months ago and while it is an 
excellent 
printer which I would recommend to anyone, particularly for B&W 
work, 
the big downside is the amount of ink it uses, or probably more 
accurately the cost of it. As everyone on here probably knows, even 
in 
B&W mode it uses a certain amount of colour ink.

Here in the UK Fotospeed are offering for around £200 their Quill 
CIS, 
which is being well publicised in UK photo mags. For the money you 
not 
only get the system, inks, but also 50 sheets of A3 art paper and a 
25% voucher of your next purchase of ink, an offer they say worth 
potentially £147! When I called Fotospeed with a few questions they 
told me that the inks used are imported from the US and although 
they 
may have a slight colour shift compared to Epson inks, this could be 
corrected with the use of their paper profiles.

The question is whether anyone has tried this system, or any other 
CIS, in the 2400, and what the pitfalls might be. It has to be the 
way 
to go IMHO. This offer is open until the end of April if anyone else 
in the UK is interested. See www.fotospeed.co.uk, although for some 
reason it doesn't specifically mention the offer currently avaiable.

I wonder whether Epson will ever offer a CIS, although I suppose it 
may not be in their interest!

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