Digital BW, The Print

I have recently installed a Lyson CIS (from    http://www.marrutt.com/  
in the UK) on my 2400, and it is working perfectly.

It is my third CIS, (including a Piezography system for B&W which is 
still running daily on an aged 1160). I have never had a problem with 
CISs (touch wood!) and I'm convinced they are the way to go if you make 
enough prints to offset the up-front cost.

The Lyson system is not advertised as an identical colour match for the 
Epson inks, but they supply profiles for Lyson, and some Epson papers. I 
have had custom profiles made for the main papers I use, and I'm 
delighted with the results.

One big advantage of this Lyson CIS for me is that the system has nine 
cartridges. i.e. both a matt black as well as a photo black all 
connected up, so changing from glossy to matt papers is very easy and 
economical, though I have to admit that I don't print much matt black on 
the 2400 because I have the 1160, which only prints on Matt.

Geoff

reynoll_2000 wrote:
>
> 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 \ufffd200 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 \ufffd147! 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!
>
>