[Leica] Printer ink discontinued

[Christopher Crawford]

The 2200 was my first good printer. Bought it 20 years ago and wore it out making prints for exhibition and sale. I replaced it with an r2400, which I also wore out. By then, I was selling a lot more 16x20 prints, so I got a P800. That's the predecessor to the P900 that Jayanand and Brian recommended. My P800 is wonderful; the P900 should be at least as good. If you don't mind the higher price for the 17" printer, it is worth the money.

One nice thing about Epson's 17" printers is that the waste tank is user-changeable. Costs about $40 for a new one. When the waste tank on my 2200 filled the first time, it cost me $160 to have it replaced by an Epson Authorized Service Center (we actually had one in Fort Wayne back then!). When it happened the second time, I replaced the printer. The later printers are really a lot better than the 2200; the prints have a lot less metamerism (meaning they don't change in appearance as much under different light sources) and if you do B&W prints, the later models have the Advanced B&W mode that makes gorgeous neutral or toned B&W prints that are vastly superior to those that the 2200 made (and the 2200 wasn't bad for B&W, just the newer inks are far better still).

I have a tutorial on using the B&W mode on the P800 that should work identically on the P900 if you buy one (and you should).

https://youtu.be/kxkpJEzn8YM


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On 9/13/22, 11:12 AM, "LUG on behalf of George Lottermoser via LUG" <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    
    Re: obsolescence: 
    The 7 inks for my Epson Stylus Photo 2200 printer have been "Discontinued." This after I just moved it in; cleaned it along with the jets; made all necessary alignment adjustments; pulled 3 near perfect prints; it told me it needed "light magenta;" so I went looking… only to find… dis appointment and dis continued 
    
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