Digital BW, The Print

Hello Chris,

>After a day of frustration I finally caved in to my long standing
>desire to own an R2400...

Congrats.  It's gonna be a whole new world <g>  


>Interesting timing on this episode with the 220, since I've been
>deciding between an R1800 with Paul's approach (necessitating RIPs,
>MIS ink, etc.) or a 2400.  What today's frustration with the 220
>leakage issues showed me is that I have neither the time nor
>inclination to fiddle around so much with the hardware.  I want
>something that gives me pretty good results with a minimum of
>tinkering.  So the 2400 won.

Somehow I understand <g>

I put up with a certain amount of refilling carts and such because
I've found that doing my initial image workup proofing in BO on the
200, rather than the 2400, saves a lot on ink costs.  I was doing
straight BO on the 200 but the K channel died, so I'm faced with
either doing QTR-based BO, which is _much_ slower, or paying a high
price for another scarce 200 or 220, or doing proofing on the 2400. 
I'd rather not spend the $ right now so I bit the bullet and got into
the 2KBO stuff.  I can always take another route if the slowness
proves to be too big a problem.  With the Speed setting on "Faster"
for proofing it's not so bad, so we'll see...

As for 2400 ink costs, atlex.com has excellent prices, as does
costcentral.com and uniquephoto.com.  Be sure to compare shipping
costs.  Sometimes the lowest cart price isn't always the best deal. 
Depending how how many carts you're buying, sometimes free or low
shipping overcomes a slightly higher price.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm