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I've had my R2400 from new. When it was out of warranty I fitted a Fotospeed Quill bulk ink system for their excellent Ultra 4K pigment inks, and by-passed the integral waste ink reservoir (pads hidden in the base of the printer) with two tubes leading to an external spare ink bottle. I have found the printer very reliable, cheap to run (with the Fotospeed ink), and great for printing on Baryta, Satin and Matte papers (I never use gloss for framed prints). The head cleaning does use a fair amount of ink and that would be costly using Epsons tiny cartridges, but is barely worth bothering about using bulk ink. As for any serious printing, you MUST be using a calibrated screen and you MUST use the correct printer profiles for the media you're printing onto and the ink you are printing with. If you get all of that right you won't be disappointed with the R2400. The printer is now telling me it needs a service, that's just Epson's built-in obsolescence, but by by-passing the waste system I can ignore that and it just keeps on printing. I've used Canon A3+ printers before and they're fine too, very little difference from Epson but I had terrible customer service the last time I used them. My R2400 has now printed many thousands of prints from 6"x4" to 19"x13" for resale in my studio and I've never had a problem with it. It has now largely been replaced by an Epson 3880 with Fotospeed refillable cartridges but remains a useful 2nd printer.Read full review
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I did have to spend nearly 2 weeks cleaning the print head! At first I tried just warm distilled water administered with a syringe and tube down where the ink cartidge goes. Water didn't work, but did loosen the dried ink. Then I tried isopropanol alcohol, that didn't work but did dissolve some more of the dried inks! Finally I used some distilled water and some blue liquid window cleaner and that cleaned the head. I had bought some cheap inks from Ink Colour.co.uk and after some research on the internet managed to get the colour quite good by adjusting the colour controls and not using Photoshop controls colours. However black and white photos were still coming out with a colour cast even using the Advanced B+W function. I then spent some more time researching other people's problems with this and now use Quad Tone RIP whick works really well. This is just a great printer, but does require some time to get set up right. I am going to try Think inks as they do get some positive comments from other users of this printer. I just cant afford the Epsom inks.Read full review
great for printin pictures, posters and flyers. have yet to try it on canvas as this is my next project
This is an impressive looking printer. It is well built and came well recommended from reviews on-line. I have two gripes with the printer, one is that the gloss prints are not good by any stretch. My second is that the printer just hammers through ink like there is no tomorrow. In desperation I bought a Lyson bulk ink system at over £300 with 8 X 125ml tanks of ink I also fitted a waste ink tank. This intervention has reduced the running costs but it is still much more expensive and the gloss print quality is not even close to that of my old Cannon. The amount of Ink the printer throws into the waste tank is just unbelievable,,,, at times I could cry watching it print with the price of decent ink as it spits it unrelentingly into the waste tank. My experience with Epson has been an expensive lesson in what not to buy. It back to Cannon for me!Read full review
I got the printer because I can use compatible inks in it. I only do this because all the printer producers charge abominably large amounts for their inks. You can buy their genuine ink by the litre in America for relative small amounts but they charge huge amounts for their cartridges and try their best to stop the compatible firms producing the items at a price which is reasonable. I understand about research and development costs but this is profiteering in my opinion. So I bought my R2400. So far I've been unable to see a manual about how to work the printer because Epson's downloads are protected by passwords. I haven't met this before even from Canon or HP who are equally keen to maximise their profits at the customer's expense. So I'm trying to use the R2400, as it came to me in the post, with its instructions I've so far been unable to read. And the printer has definitely got quirks! I've used Epson printers for nearly a decade but I've never met one yet that didn't list glossy paper in its menues of printer paper loaded in the machine. Also there are little menues telling me not to do this and not to do that, but the help screens are fairly hopeless at explaining why. I've only got this far, that is printing some basic images, (and rather poorly at that)because of my previous experience with Epson. So what conclusion? I don't at this moment know from my experience so far, whether this is a good printer or not. All the prints I've made, some on Epson papers, have shown strong light direction effects which makes them unusable. I know this can be minimised because I've seen beautiful results from the R2400 but I've no idea yet how best to achieve it. Mechanically the printer seems to work well and appears sturdy, not as sturdy by any means as my HP 9180, but good enough for the purpose of printing. It also sits well on the bench and is easy to connect and get into working condition, even without the instructions to do it. I know from past experience that Epson will not help me to maintain the printer. They will expect any maintenance to be done by their appointed engineers and I shall have to find out elsewhere how to change the inkpads, keep the ink flowing and deal with minor problems. The photographers around me who have Epson printers regularly change them rather than facing the problems thrown up by quite ordinary maintenance needs, like changing the pads, or indeed the print-heads. I imagine that this suits Epson and it will work as long as they keep ahead of the field. I notice though that 'Which' is tending to recommend other printers in the main so maybe Epson will be brought down a peg or two before too long. In the meantime I'm trying to make prints at a reasonable price and I bought this printer to help me get quality without too much pain. It's in the balance at the moment and I may finish up getting most of my prints from a professional printing establishment, which surprisingly is much cheaper than Epson or HP, without the pain of having to keep the things working!Read full review