Digital BW, The Print

If it were me I would get the 2400 and not look back. The K3 inkset does a great job with the Epson printdriver and is absolutely robust when compared to the 2200. Even Jeff Schewe admits to the 2200 being one of the lemons in the Epson pie. I have had both and love the 2400. Reliable and consistent

Woody Spedden

----- Original Message ----
From: tom_email69 <tom_email69@...>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2008 7:50:18 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Dilemma - 2200 or new printer?










  


    
            Lawrence,

    I'm sure you will get a lot of good answers to your questions

here.  Another good source is the Feb 2008 (current issue) of

Shutterbug Magazine.  This entire issue is devoted to B&W Photography.

    The article "A New B&W Inkjet Option" by David Brooks (whom I hold

in high regard)discusses setting up some Epson printers to be able to

print B&W using carbon inks and still use them a full time color printers.

    Hope you find this useful!  - Tom



--- In DigitalBlackandWhit eThePrint@ yahoogroups. com, "Lawrence Beals"

<lbealsjr@.. .> wrote:

>

> I have an odd sort of dilemma here. I have a new in the box (only

> opened for inventory) Epson 2200 that I bought before the Navy decided

> to re-prioritize my life. Now that I am retired I am looking to get

> back into photography full time - I think the term is "selfishly

> employed". Most of what I have shot in the past couple of years has

> been split between weddings/portraits (which the printing for is

> handled mostly off site) and personal projects, mostly B&W landscapes

> and astrophotography.

> 

> So should I break out the 2200 or ebay it to someone who already has a

> 2200 workflow in place and buy a R2400 - especially since the local

> CompUSA has a bunch of R2400s and they are going out of business.

> Realistically, I would rather be out shooting than tweaking my

> printers. After spending 26 years doing nuclear power (and computer

> networking etc as a collateral duty) I am sure I can handled the tech

> side of things but would just rather be out shooting than slaving over

> a hot printer all day. I do want the ability to produce a print that

> is acceptable for gifting and hanging personally on site.

> 

> If I stay with the 2200 should I convert it right from the start to a

> B&W inkset or just play with the OEM inksets until I sort of the

> inevitable tech issues. I am using a MacPro desktop, but mostly

> directly booted into Win XP along with CS3 and Lightroom.

> 

> thoughts?

> 

> Lawrence

> 

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-Thoreau

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