Yahoo Groups archive

Digital BW, The Print

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:56 UTC

Message

Re:Epson 3000 vs R2400; probably Epson 3000's for sale

2008-04-19 by Susan Chapin

I just switched from a 2400 to a 3800, and it is a BIG improvement. 

 

 - For one, 3800 ink costs a lot less. 

 - For another, you can switch between the photo and matte black
automatically - you have to wait a few minutes - and without using much ink.


 - For a third, every time you turn the printer on and off it does a minor
head clean, only a little ink is used, and in the desert that means many
many fewer power cleans.

 - For a fourth, I think the prints are better, but I am not really an
expert

 - And I do like printing bigger than 13x19.

 

And no, it is not much bigger than the 2400, just a few inches. In my small
office that matters!

 

My major complaint is that the driver won't let me override the manual paper
feed required for the VFA and USFA media settings - I use 3rd party papers
and need those media settings for the surface, but sometimes the paper is
thin enough to sheet feed.

 

Good luck!

 

  - susan

 

 



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.