My papers include velvet fine art, presentation matte, double sided
matte and ultra premium luster, so I do have to switch from matte
black to photo black from time to time. It's not onerous, but the
purge cycle can cause another almost empty cartridge to fail. On rare
occasions, you might get two in a row -- one color empties out when
purging after the switch to a new black and another empties when
purging after switching out the first color cartridge that drained.
That can be a pisser.
But that said, I love the K3 inkset and the grayscale capability.
After a number of years with the R2400, I couldn't go the other way.
Paul
On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
The R1800-R1900 pair are better suited to color printing on glossy
surface papers as they have a gloss optimizer ink. The inkset is
related to the K3 inkset in that it is pigment based and uses
similar colors, but it doesn't have as much in the grayscale inks
department.
The R2400-R2880 pair (and all the higher end R3800, R4800, etc) are
more proficient at printing B&W work as they have the K3 inkset,
which essentially has a full quadtone set built in and extra bits in
the driver for more B&W printing control if you choose to print
outside of a color managed print workflow (fine for B&W work).
The autoswitching feature means that the head has a spare slot for
the two black inks and can switch between them without having to do
a a full purge cycle, which consumes some ink from all cartridges.
How much it saves I can only conjecture about. I hardly ever switch
to Photo Black as I print almost exclusively on matte surface
papers, so it makes little difference to my printing costs.
Godfrey
On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
I see that R2400 got replaced by R2880, and I see that Christine
has been very happy with it.
Does anybody have R1900?
What is the difference from R2880?
I see that they are using different types of inks, but I am not
sure which one is better. If I understand corectly, R1900
is using one of the UltraChrome (High Gloss?) ink, -
I am not sure if it is somehow related to the inks used in 3800
(UltraChrome K3)
Also, I see that R1900 features
# Auto-switching Photo and Matte Black Ink
- the feature that 3800 also has.
I see that Godfrey had mentioned that every time you switch toner
manually you loose 5-6% of ink.
Is this the case with the auto-switching?
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