Digital BW, The Print

This guy here does quite a good job of reviewing various printers and
provides good scans of the comparative printer output. 

 

http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/printers_page.htm

 

A common piece of advice if you are looking at the 2400 is to also look at
the 3800 as the value of additional ink you get with it exceeds the increase
in price over the 2400.

 

Regards

 

Alistair Owens 

owens@...

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert
Gaunt
Sent: 17 March 2008 3:48 p.m.
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Need help choosing printer solution (R2400 vs
PIXMA Pro 9500 vs 3-MK)

 

I would choose the Epson R2400 but qualify that by saying I have not seen
prints from the 
Canon. My reasons are as follows - the Epson's 3 black inks will most likely
produce a 
better B&W print and more important you can run QuadToneRIP with the Epson.
I am using 
an Epson 2200 (2 black inks). B&W prints with the Epson driver were lousy
until I got QTR 
which transformed the prints to really great (not just my opinion, got 2nd
place B&W print 
in the New England Camera Club Council competition recently). I also have
used the 
R2400 at Santa Fe Workshops for B&Ws, just using the Epson software (no QTR)
and the 
prints were very good. Ditto that with the equivalent HP printers SFW now
has.

My digital SLR is a Canon 20D which I'm very happy with, so I have nothing
against Canon. 
Hope the above info is helpful, if not quite what you asked.

Walk in Beauty, Bob Gaunt

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com> , "Robert"
<rczire@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone, 
> 
> I'd like to ask for your feedback on choosing a B/W printer. 
> 
> Background: I have purchased a refurbished 1280 from Epson over a 
> year ago, with UT2 inks from MIS. This was my first attempt to making 
> the leap from darkroom to digital printing. Unfortunately I was never 
> able to make this solution work, I constantly got lines across my 
> prints, but only with the MIS inks, not the stock Epson ones. I'm not 
> faulting the ink, maybe it was my refurb'ed printer. But after 
> countless hours of research and troubleshooting (removing pizza 
> wheels, etc) I've given up in dissapointment. I should say that I 
> would only print maybe once a week to a few times per month. 
> 
> I am now on a new quest, this time I thought I won't cut corners with 
> refurbished printers, etc, so I've been looking at the Epson R2400 
> and the Canon PIXMA Pro 9500. Not because I necessarily need an A3 
> printer, but because smaller ones don't come equipped with separate 
> grey cartridge. With current rebates they can be had for under $600. 
> After many hours of reading reviews, I am leaning towards the 9500 as 
> that seems to have better d-max (and the fact that I'm a EOS D30 
> user). Though the Epson has 3 black/grey inks vs only 2 for the Canon.
> 
> So my questions are:
> 1. has anyone compared prints from these two printers (R2400 & PIXMA 
> Pro 9500), or has any feedback on choosing one vs the other?
> 
> 2. has anyone compared print quality between one of the above 
> printers, and Roark's workflow with the Epson 800/1800?
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert.
>

 



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