Digital BW, The Print

Chris,

I agree it is very good.  However reserve your final
judgement for a day or two when you have to replace
ink carts as fast as you can buy them.  My ink
purchases are usually $, no I won't burst your bubble
on New Years Day.  Enjoy.
Gil
--- "Christopher L. Johnston" <chris@...>
wrote:

> Although I have had my new 2400 for a few weeks now
> I have had little chance
> to do much with it.  What I did find interesting is
> that out of the box it
> did a better job in B & W then color operator error
> not the printer, I was
> used to a work flow with my 2200 and was confused to
> begin with, with the
> 2400.  Today I started to experiment with
> Hahnemuhle's 320gm photo rag and
> Epson's ultra smooth fine art papers; my mind has
> been well and truly blown.
> Although I can see that the fine tuning process will
> take a fair bit of ink
> and paper the prospect of improving on my first
> efforts is making me shake.
> There have been some postings by newcomers in the
> last few weeks and I guess
> that this is directed to them more then the
> veterans. The 2400 is simply the
> best printer I have ever had, period. Maybe a 2200
> with a RIP and an inkjet
> would be a better B&W printer but it wouldn't also
> do a great job on color
> which I have now managed to get the 2400 to do. Nor
> with the 2200/RIP/Inkset
> be essentially idiot proof.  So if you are new at
> this and are looking to
> get a grown up printer at a budget price the 2400
> smokes.
> 
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> Christopher L. Johnston
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> Johnston-Namibia c.c.
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> PO Box 354
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> Omaruru Namibia
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> chris@...
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Gil Draperhttp://www.pbase.com/gildra