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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