Digital BW, The Print

I have a 2200.  It needed a new pump, and since then has been 
excellent.  I don't have a 2400 or a 2880.  My evidence is anecdotal 
and secondhand, but it might be useful.

1.  My friend Peggy has had both.  She loves the prints from the 2400, 
but finds a a little cheesier and less reliable than the 2200.

2.  When I had the 2200 fixed, by a place that specializes in Epson 
repair, I spoke for quite a while with the tech mgr about the relative 
mechanical merits of the various models.  He felt that the 2400 was 
mechanically inferior to the 2200.  He thought that the 3800 was 
excellent mechanically, and that one wanting to upgrade from the 2200 
should consider going straight to the 3800  (this was not sales talk - 
he knew I wasn't in the market right then).  As someone pointed out, 
the cost difference isn't as great as it appears, because a lot more 
ink comes with the 3800.


On Jul 25, 2008, at 11:22 PM, Clayton Jones wrote:

> Hello Richard,
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>> I've been wondering how the newer Epsons such as the 2400 or the 2880
>> compare with the old ones like the 2100 for reliability.
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> My own experience favors the newer.  I had a 2200 for almost exactly
> two years.  One month from the expiration of the 2-year replacement
> warranty the paper feed mechanism began serious and noisy
> malfunctioning.  It clearly had worn out.  I swapped it for a 2400 in
> August, 2005, so I'm now approaching three years with it.  My
> experience with it has been fantastic.
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> Besides being a dream to use (ABW) and producing beautiful prints with
> it's three K inks, it has never had a banding problem, has never
> needed a head alignment, and has had only a few relatively minor
> clogs, always after being idle for long periods (2-3 weeks).  My only
> real complaint is sometimes it gets persnickity in feeding paper and
> tries my patience.  But not always, it comes and goes...maybe it's the
> phase of the moon.
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> I've also found the ABW settings to be somewhat of a moving target.
> The tone often shifts a bit along the green/magenta scale when a new
> cart is installed - differences in ink batches I suppose.  It's more
> of an annoyance than a handicap and I've learned to live with it.  A
> couple of small test prints tell me how much to adjust the horizontal
> value and I'm back in business.
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> Anyway, it has by far been the best printer I've ever had (four in a
> 6 year period).  All of it's use has been with the Epson inks.  It
> has made countless prints, most of them letter size or smaller, and my
> ink costs have averaged about $20/month.  I sell prints, so it has
> more than paid it's way.
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> Before the 2400, printing was mostly a frustrating struggle.  With the
> 2400 it's been pretty much printing Nirvana.
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> Regards,
> Clayton
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> Info on black and white digital printing at
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> I-Trak 2.1   http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm
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