Digital BW, The Print

I have seen the new Espon R280/R290 printer and I was wondering if
anyone had any experience with them yet? They are reportedly faster than
the R220/R230 which they replace and the OEM carts are high capacity and
not much dearer that the OEM R220 carts. Of course I would be
particularly interested if BO printing was possible...

 D r e w

I guess it is rather new. No problems. Back to finding a cheap R230!

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Drew Tait
<drewt8@...> wrote:

>
> I have seen the new Espon R280/R290 printer and I was wondering if
> anyone had any experience with them yet? They are reportedly faster than
> the R220/R230 which they replace and the OEM carts are high capacity and
> not much dearer that the OEM R220 carts. Of course I would be
> particularly interested if BO printing was possible...
> 
>  D r e w
>

drewt8t wrote:
> I guess it is rather new. No problems. Back to finding a cheap R230!
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Drew Tait
> <drewt8@...> wrote:
>> I have seen the new Espon R280/R290 printer and I was wondering if
>> anyone had any experience with them yet? They are reportedly faster than
>> the R220/R230 which they replace and the OEM carts are high capacity and
>> not much dearer that the OEM R220 carts. Of course I would be
>> particularly interested if BO printing was possible...


Hi Drew

I bought an R290 for printing on CDs and DVDs, which I have just set up 
and tested.

I have not used any of the other small desktop printers, so I can't 
compare with them.

I can report that the Windows driver does not offer a 'Black Only' 
option, just a 'Greyscale' option which produces a mono print with a 
magenta cast. I did a 2400 spi flatbed scan of the print, and it showed 
lots of dots of colour ink -- see a little sample here: 
http://www.marquis-kyle.com.au/images/R290.jpg

Peter Marquis-Kyle

Peter,

Thank you very much -- that is a great help. It confirms to me that
although it is faster and has cheaper ink thatn the R220/r230 it won't
do what I want: Black only printing :(

D r e w
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:58 +1000, Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote:
> http://www.marquis-kyle.com.au/images/R290.jpg

Actually it will do BO printing if you use QTR instead of the Epson  
driver.

On Nov 2, 2007, at 3:11 AM, Drew Tait wrote:

> Peter,
>
> Thank you very much -- that is a great help. It confirms to me that
> although it is faster and has cheaper ink thatn the R220/r230 it won't
> do what I want: Black only printing :(
>
> D r e w
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:58 +1000, Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote:
>> http://www.marquis-kyle.com.au/images/R290.jpg
>