Do a comparison by the volume of ink in each cartridge and price from your suppliers (don't use the manufacturers recommended prices - there may be different discounts for the different ranges at different suppliers). Then you have other variables 1) the inksets are different, the printers being optimised for different users. The results won't be identical. If you like high gloss prints, the 3880 may not be a good choice. 2) they may not use the same amount of ink per print. 3) Do you do enough printing to recover the capital cost of the 3880. 4) How much is the ability to do A2 prints worth to you? just for information, from my supplier (UK) - note the 3880 cartridges aren't 7 times as expensive, and are cheaper per ml 3880 80ml cartridge £40 cost - 50p/ml 1900 11.4ml £8 70p/ml 2000 17ml £14 82p/ml 'recent' models that used the same ink as the 3880 3000 26ml £20 77p/ml 2400 13ml £12 92p/ml (old, but what I used to use) 2880 11.4ml £9 79p/ml On 03/12/2012 16:14, genenphotos wrote: > > Apologies for getting a little off topic. I have a question for Epson > 38XX users. A friend asserts that ink cartridges for his Epson 3800 > last far longer than the smaller ones used in R1900, R2000 printers. > Since the cartridges for the former cost about 7 times more, do they > last 7 times as long? Is there justification here for buying a 3800/3880? > > -Gene > http://genenphotos.com > > -- mike finley photography http://www.mikefinley.co.uk http://words.mikefinley.co.uk http://www.roguegenegallery.com/Mike_Finley-gallery.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Ink Usage -- off-topic
2012-12-03 by Mike Finley