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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Fotospeed in the UK - Quill Continous Ink System for the 2400 - Advice Please
2007-03-30 by reynoll_2000
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