Epson Stylus R2400 Photo Printer

On a good day, this printer can produce brilliant prints with excellent image quality.

On a bad day, plan to spend HOURS and LOTS of ink dealing with clogged heads, paper feed problems, and driver issues.

Image quality is 5 stars, reliability is 1 star.

I bought this printer in late 2007. The original printer printed too darkly. Epson sent a "rebuilt" printer which didn't turn on. I send the rebuilt printer back in May.Epson promised they would send another replacement as soon as the received the "rebuilt" printer. By mid June, Epson made me send the FEDEX tracking receipt to prove I send the "rebuilt" printer. Epson found that they had indeed received the "rebuilt" printer.
They send me a new printer at the end of June. At which point I send them the original printer which printed too darkly.
My credit card was charge $900.99 by Epson on August 03, 2008. Epson claimed they had no record of receiving the printer. I just had to send them the tracking receipt for both returns. they are claiming AGAIN to have no record of the printer I sent back in MAY!!!
Epson has the worst customer service that I have ever encountered!!!!

This printer has pretty great color and makes very nice black and whites. But having to swap matte/glossy into the same slot in the print head is a ridiculous waste of time, energy, not to mention ink, as it has to run several cleaning routines across every single color in order to prime just that one head.

And that's this printer's major problem. I run quite a few pages through it, but unless I print a few every single week, it gums up and then needs dozens of cleaning routines to get it back to ship shape. This wastes hundreds of dollars worth of ink every year. It's ridiculous that this thing can't stay unclogged better than that. I ran the drain tubes to a jar so I can quantify just how much ink it's wasting, and I empty that 125ml jar when it's full at least 3x per year. I run about 250 ml of ink of each color per year, so there's your math: 2000 ml of ink per year, 375ml of ink wasted via cleaning routines, for an astounding 18.8% waste.

Also, the printer is a few years old, but the build has never been good. Cheap plastic, poorly joined. Nowadays, panels flop open on their own (bad latches and the print head's own motion is violent enough to pop them) which causes mechanical problems and interference with the print head.

I love the images, but I will never get another Epson inkjet again. Canon, here we come.

I have used this printer for high res photos and cannot tell the difference bwtn those from my photo processing lab. It's a bit costly to print vs to have lab processed, but if you need a print at midnight or for 7 am, you've got 24 access to a lab at your fingertips. Also, I have had other Epson printers and my biggest complaint is having to clean the heads weekly. I have gone weeks without using this printer and don't need to clean anything- it prints just as well after sitting turned off a few weeks! Big improvement from the other Epsons I've had (but now I use a Canon for my non-pro printing). Highly recommended, even though I think by now it's been upgraded to a newer model.

This is a fantastic printer! The image quality is fantastic and the archival inks are great. I was worried when I saw how little the ink cartridges were, but I have printed some large projects and haven't had to replace them yet. I have owned this since Feb or March of 2008.
Make sure you have a sturdy table or surface to put this on so it doesn't shake or move while printing.
I researched several wide format printers, and after speaking with some friends and others in the print industry, Epson was recommended overall more than any other brand, and this printer was in the top running for wide format printers- with the exception of the professional models. I would recommend this to anyone.