Digital BW, The Print

Mark;

I own an 1800, and I'm with Steve Kale on this one: save your money 
and buy the 2400. I bought this one because I want that small 
droplet size to make digital internegs. So far I've owned or tested 
4 of them, and all of them have had so much banding in so many 
channels as to make them useless for neg printing, and barely 
acceptable for B&W or high quality color. I've also been through 4 
1280s and I wouldn't run pigments through one of those now if you 
paid me, they were too much trouble to keep clean and running well. 
If you can't afford the 2400 and must go used or refurbed, buy a 
refurbed 2200, that's a very solid machine built to higher standards 
than either of the above. And the MIS Pro version of the inks will 
give you bronzing-free color, and Black-only or with QTR 2k B&W at a 
reasonable entry price point.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Drury" 
<ideo@c...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm new to digital B&W and am looking to buy a 13" width printer.  
Since the 
> 1270/1280/1290 Epsons seems to be gone (except used, of course) 
I'm wondering if the 
> R1800 is the next best thing in 13".  Is there an advantage to 
either the 2200 or 2400 over 
> the R1800 for B&W?
> 
> Also, if I start with the R220 MIS CFS system, can I simply 
install these same carts in the 
> R1800 when I move up?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Mark
>