The Epson R2400 did indeed output some pretty impressive prints for about a year, until I updated to Mac OSX.6--Snow Leopard (I checked w/Epson to make sure a compatible printer driver would be available before I installed Snow Leopard).
As is typical with higher-end printers, good prints are dependent upon selecting, in the print dialog box, the specific paper to which you are printing. Epson's updated Snow Leopard printer driver knocks out this capability, instead displaying a list of discontinued Epson papers for the user to guess about. The quality suffers, noticeably--comparing identical images printed before and after the updated driver with images is striking.
Also striking: it took 5 hours spread out over 2 days with Epson Tech Support trying multiple fixes, being told it something wrong with my computer, being told I was imagining that it was ever any other way, etc., before a tech checked, at my request, using the latest driver and the previous one on both operating systems and saw the problem on his own screen and admitted there was a problem with the driver. I was told I'm out of luck--the R2400 is no longer manufactured, and there are no planned driver updates.
I paid $800 for printer I could use for less than 2 years. The output now is about the same quality as a $100 all-in-one. Epson is not committed to ensuring that its recent products remain compatible with current operating systems.
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More Detail For Epson Stylus Photo R2400 Ink Jet Printer C11C603011
- Nine Epson UltraChrome K3 Inks for Stunning Black and White or Color Prints
- Fade-resistant Black and White Prints last up to 200 years
- Three levels of black -light-black,light-light black, and black inks.
- Prints and 11x14 matte photo in as fast as 2 minutes 6 seconds
- Borderfree 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, 8x11.5, 12x12, 11x14,13x19 photos
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