Customer Reviews
The Epson R2400 lives up to it's billing
I have been very pleased with the R2400. It prints absolutely great photos in color and in b/w. The details really stand out. The only negative is the waste of ink when you change out the glossy black for the matt black catridges.
Wonderful Prints
I have always used Epson printers, I am a professional photographer and i am very happy with its over all performance. Afew little faults, but things i can live with. (swaping out inks) For consistent quality i would recomend colour managemant. i.e. icc profiles for the papers and moniter calaberation regularly.
Great B&W prints on Epson velvet
I bought an Epson R2400 from Amazon a week before Christmas during a brief sale for a total of $749.00, including 3 day shipping. The outer and product box were a little beat up, but the printer was intact. It works well.
I loaded the Matte ink and have dedicated the printer to producing B&W images on matte papers from scanned 4x5 B&W (and larger) negatives--for the time being. Results are very good. It won't turn a badly taken, developed and scanned negative into a great picture, but if one is using a negative able to produce a good B&W print the old chemical way, the printer will give you very pleasing inkjet print results.
I haven't run it through very many of all possible functions. I will just comment on some of the refinements of the R2400 over the Epson 2200 (which I also have and intend to keep, as it works reliably and so well for color reproduction of original art work). The R2400 has a tighter dpi pattern--the resolution has grown from the 2200's 2880 dpi to 5760 dpi (in one direction--it remains 1440 for both printers in the other direction).
Anyone familar with old silver-based papers knows that inspection of a photographic print with a lupe can show astounding detail even as the image vanishes into the silver grain pattern--something inkjet reproduction cannot duplicate. However, using an 8x power lupe, I simply cannot see any obvious inkjet dots in large, finished B&W prints on 13x19 Epson velvet paper printed with the R2400. Also, the degree of fuzziness of the image on velvet paper at 8 power is only slightly more than in the digital image seen on my Apple Cinema display. It seems the paper resolution has increased dramatically over results from the Epson 2200 (where 8x inspection of prints shows the image demolished in noticable dots). So, the R2400 produces prints that appear wonderfully sharp with the naked eye.
Another surprise is that my 20" Apple Cinema's LSD image provides a near dead-on means of determining the appearance of the print on velvet paper. For printing color on my Epson 2200, it is necessary to use a CRT monitor and still make guesses based on experience. The Epson R2400's functions all work on Apple OSX 10.3 using a G5 2.5 gHZ Powermac.
The R2400's paper loading is more sophisticated than on the Epson 2200. Heavier Epson papers can be loaded into a second steeply tilted single paper loader--not needing be fed in straight and level as in the 2200. Other brands of heavy matte papers must be fed straight in, but through the front. In all cases, whether using the single sheet loader or the front end loading, the printer eventually grabs the paper and positions it prior to printing.
Nice printer. Gives me reason now to start loading my old cut film holders again and hauling big camera's around without the need of launching whole hog into a chemical darkroom other than what is necessary to just develop film.
