On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> My R2400 is pretty darn old. Not sure when I bought it, but I'd guess about >> 5 years ago. I estimate I've made a couple thousand prints. >> >> Now, according to the Epson tech, it has a hardware failure of some sort. It >> started spitting ink now and then and ruining prints. Now it won't work at >> all. The two red lights just flash. >> >> Epson will give me an owner loyalty price on a new 2880 of about $480 after >> rebate. Is it worth taking the R2400 in for service??? The bench fee for a >> diagnosis is $60. I have no idea what the repair might cost. But if I decide >> against it, I'm out the $60. > > It's probably time to upgrade. I think you bought yours shortly after > I bought mine, which was October 2005. Mine's still going well, > sometimes getting a little funky on the feed but otherwise reliable. > I've made 4500+ prints with it. When it's time is up, I'll move to the > R3880 or a refurb R3800 as the R2880 has smaller ink tanks than the > R2400 and is more costly to run. (I'd like to go with the industrial > strength R4xxx series, but that's going to cost a substantial bit > more.) > > -- > Godfrey
Godfey, with your print numbers, I'd strongly recommend doing a cost comparison on the 3800 and 4880. When I did the math, between the 4800 and 2400 at list, the 4800 payed for itself around 300 prints in ink costs alone. The 3800's better than the 2xx0 series in ink costs (80ml carts rather than $15-ish 12ml carts), but 220ml ink carts for ~$100 each vs just under $70 for 80ml 3800 carts (the smaller 110ml carts for the 48x0 are around $75). These are all at Canadian retail pricing, but the ratio's will be similar even for discounted ink. At 900+ prints a year I suspect the 4880 will quickly pay for itself. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
