Digital BW, The Print

Three days with my second hand/ mint condition Epson 2400 and still can't printout a simple good b&W photo..Thus I have paid 60euros for two(!!) Light Magenta, 1 Cyan, 1 Photo Black and goes on.
Suddenly two cartridges with approx. 25% ink have gone in one single A4 B&W print. All the print attempts done with A4 175gr Canon mat paper.  
What I'm doing wrong ??

Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:11 pm (PDT) . Posted by:"dmet2006" dmet2006


 2400 printer --
Suddenly two cartridges with approx. 25% ink have gone in one single A4 B&W print. All the print attempts done with A4 175gr Canon mat paper. 
What I'm doing wrong ??


Well, I can't answer your question but can say that of all the epson printers I've owned 
(5 or 6 of them), the 2400 has never clogged, and believe it or not prints with perfect nozzle
tests even after a three month shut down. If only their other printers behaved like that!

Clearly your printer has a serious problem, and from what you wrote you're not doing anything wrong.
However, it sounds as if your "second hand / mint condition  Epson 2400"  is not so " mint", after all.
Perhaps you could get your money back.
Good Luck

C





  




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Thanks for the reply Clayton..
It never clogged (till know) but the b&W prints are coming dull and midtoned with no the sparking contrast of the silver prints I used to print by myself in my darkroom.
Aha! the remained cartridges are chinese refilled and not Epson!!
I have to go with an absolutely new set of ink to see what will happenned.
I'm -one week - new in digital printing.. 




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Clayton Price <clay@...> wrote:

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> Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:11 pm (PDT) . Posted by:"dmet2006" dmet2006
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>  2400 printer --
> Suddenly two cartridges with approx. 25% ink have gone in one single A4 B&W print. All the print attempts done with A4 175gr Canon mat paper. 
> What I'm doing wrong ??
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> Well, I can't answer your question but can say that of all the epson printers I've owned 
> (5 or 6 of them), the 2400 has never clogged, and believe it or not prints with perfect nozzle
> tests even after a three month shut down. If only their other printers behaved like that!
> 
> Clearly your printer has a serious problem, and from what you wrote you're not doing anything wrong.
> However, it sounds as if your "second hand / mint condition  Epson 2400"  is not so " mint", after all.
> Perhaps you could get your money back.
> Good Luck
> 
> C
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