Editorial Review
A welcome addition to any photo studio or library archives, the Epson Stylus Photo R2400 printer delivers large, archival prints that stand the test of time and are worthy of gallery display.
Achieve greater print quality and image control with the Epson R2400 |
Three separate paper paths support matte, glossy, canvas, posterboard, thick artist papers, and roll paper |
Create Stunning Color and Black and White Prints with the Epson Stylus Photo R2400 The Epson Stylus Photo R2400 professional level ink set, the 8-color Epson UltraChrome K3 inks, includes three levels of black and sets a new standard in fine art photography and black and white prints.
With its expanded ink set, this printer ensures a wider color gamut and superior midtones, highlights, neutrals and shadow details making it ideal for professional quality prints. With its Black, Light Black and Light-Light Black inks, anyone can easily achieve amazing black and white prints.
Also, since these specail Epson inks are pigment-based, they deliver fade-resistant works of art that stay brilliant for up to 108 years in color and over 200 years in black and white.
Get Creative with Different Paper Types
The Epson Stylus Photo R2400 delivers studio quality results on virtually any artistic media. Three convenient paper paths support matte, glossy, canvas, roll, posterboard, and many artist papers, so it's easy to expand your creativity.
The Epson Stylus Photo R2400 accommodates paper up to 13-inches wide and can create panoramics up to 44 inches long. You can also print true BorderFree photos ideal for gallery exhibits.
With The Epson Stylus Photo R2400's powerful production speeds, the you can create brilliant displays, so you can move on to your next show-stopping exhibit more quickly.
What's in the Box
- Epson Stylus Photo R2400 ink jet printer
- One cyan ink cartridge (T059220)
- One magenta ink cartridge (T059320)
- One yellow ink cartridge (T059420)
- One light cyan ink cartridge (T059520)
- One light magenta ink cartridge (T059620)
- one photo black ink cartridge (T059120)
- One matte black ink cartridge (T059820)
- One light black ink cartridge (T059720)
- One light light black ink cartridge (T059920)
- Roll paper holder accessory
- IEEE/FireWire cable
- matte sheet support
- single sheet guide
- printer documentation
- CD-ROM containing printer drivers and software (Windows and Macintosh)
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Customer Reviews
Too bad it stopped working after 3 months 
2008-04-30
I have an $830 paperweight.
I have just spent 8 hours trying to get this thing to clear a head, and the reviews on the net say it's not going to happen.
Good luck!
Provides you a lot of control over printing - at a cost 
2008-04-11
I bought this printer to replace my Canon PRO9000. My primary motivation was the ink system - I wanted a pigment based ink system, I wanted multiple black inks for better B&W, I wanted to produce archival quality prints and the ability to print on a wider range of specialty papers than supported for the PRO9000. Finally, I wanted to keep my purchase cost around $700. This leaves the r2400, Canon PRO9500 and the HP B9180. It appeared to me there is a wider range of icc profiles for papers I am interested in for the Epson that isn t a rigourous, scientific census - just my opinon . I have owned HPs and Canons. I was open to trying Epsons to see if I like them as much as many others do.
My only rap on the delivery of the printer is that the box was pretty chewed up when it arrived via UPS though the machine was OK.
Set up was straightforward on my Mac OSX machine. My impression of doing so it s been a few weeks now was that I actually resorted to reading the manual at a couple of points - not something I typically need to do for a printer.
Overall I d say this printer is like driving a car with manual transmission where the rest of the field are automatics. This isn't a printer system you will configure once and click-print unless you intend to use one ink-set/paper combination for everything.
Following the analogy to a car, if your printing needs are mixed media, general printing with a 13x19 print a few times a year I don't think this is a good choice. You will be happier with nice "automatic".
On the other hand if you are familiar with the issues of color management as it applies to printing, you know what an icc profile is and have dozens of them, understand what the difference is between reflective vs. perceptual intent and calibrate your monitor every couple of weeks this printer offers you a lot of control over almost every aspect of your output. But you have to manage much of it.
Is the r2400 "better than" anybody else? There are other sites to delve into details of the quality issues (like Luminous Landscape). I put some of the prints I m getting from the r2400 next to prints of the same file from prior machines and the differences are generally subtle for color prints. The improvement in B&W is significant. As far as resolution and such goes at the desktop level you are far more likely to effect those aspects through your file handling and configuration settings than with the mechanical aspects of the printer.
There are downsides to this machine. The ink is very expensive and the r2400 chews it up pretty fast. I haven't done enough printing to put very hard numbers to that yet but it feels like I m paying about $0.45 per print in ink on an 8x10. I was warned about this by some experts prior to buying. In fact I was really encouraged to spend the extra dough and go for the 3800 for the larger ink tanks. For me it came down to allocation of resources. I need the money for other things and don't need to produce large volumes of prints. I am not, however, busting out as many large prints as I was on the PRO9000 because of the cost issue.
It is slow when you are producing highest quality prints. I don't think this would be a good solution for anyone needing a production printer.
To conclude I am not in love with this printer but it does what I ask of it and does it well. I have a lot of control over the output along with the responsibility to know what I have to do to achieve it. It's pricey to operate and delivers high quality prints.
A great printer 
2008-04-06
The printer printed right out of the box . It prints great in black and white and also color . It is very simple to use if you pay atention . I reminds me of my very old original Epson color printer . The menues are easy to follow . I mismatched some paper and still got great prints . The Ink capacity is small but comparable to most othe printers when printing 8 by 10's . larger prints of course use more . I plan on mostly printing 11 by 17's and the other sizes on occasion .
LOVE IT! 2008-03-12
I take several Photography classes at my local College and this is the printer we use. It produces great images and is pretty easy to use. The cost was always prohibitive until now, I bought this item yesterday for a song and there is also a hundred dollar rebate at the Epson website through 3/30/08 for this item.
Fabulous Printer 2008-03-07
I have used a number of printers over the years and had pretty good luck with most of them whether Epson Canon or HP. But when I got got the R2400 I was blown away. The richness and detail I was able to get from my prints was staggering. I've been using the matt black and matt papers with a great deal of success. The fact that you have to swap out ink cartridges to use glossy papers is a drag plus you end up losing ink in the change over. I use a 1280 for glossies. It's not the printer this is but its a workable compromise for the time being. I found it worked perfectly running OSX Tiger as long as I used a direct cable (rather than through a hub). It works fine with Leopard except the printer utility to check ink level etc doesn't work in Leopard. So tracking ink levels is more guess work than science. Hoping for an update from epson or apple. That aside the results from printing from photoshop, lightroom or iPhoto have been gallery worthy.
Epson R2400 2008-03-02
A welcome addition to any photo studio or library archives, the Epson Stylus Photo R2400 printer delivers large, archival prints that stand the test of time and are worthy of gallery display.
Achieve greater print quality and image control with the Epson R2400 |
Three separate paper paths support matte, glossy, canvas, posterboard, thick artist papers, and roll paper |
Create Stunning Color and Black and White Prints with the Epson Stylus Photo R2400 The Epson Stylus Photo R2400 professional level ink set, the 8-color Epson UltraChrome K3 inks, includes three levels of black and sets a new standard in fine art photography and black and white prints.
With its expanded ink set, this printer ensures a wider color gamut and superior midtones, highlights, neutrals and shadow details making it ideal for professional quality prints. With its Black, Light Black and Light-Light Black inks, anyone can easily achieve amazing black and white prints.
Also, since these specail Epson inks are pigment-based, they deliver fade-resistant works of art that stay brilliant for up to 108 years in color and over 200 years in black and white.
Get Creative with Different Paper Types
The Epson Stylus Photo R2400 delivers studio quality results on virtually any artistic media. Three convenient paper paths support matte, glossy, canvas, roll, posterboard, and many artist papers, so it's easy to expand your creativity.
The Epson Stylus Photo R2400 accommodates paper up to 13-inches wide and can create panoramics up to 44 inches long. You can also print true BorderFree photos ideal for gallery exhibits.
With The Epson Stylus Photo R2400's powerful production speeds, the you can create brilliant displays, so you can move on to your next show-stopping exhibit more quickly.
What's in the Box
- Epson Stylus Photo R2400 ink jet printer
- One cyan ink cartridge (T059220)
- One magenta ink cartridge (T059320)
- One yellow ink cartridge (T059420)
- One light cyan ink cartridge (T059520)
- One light magenta ink cartridge (T059620)
- one photo black ink cartridge (T059120)
- One matte black ink cartridge (T059820)
- One light black ink cartridge (T059720)
- One light light black ink cartridge (T059920)
- Roll paper holder accessory
- IEEE/FireWire cable
- matte sheet support
- single sheet guide
- printer documentation
- CD-ROM containing printer drivers and software (Windows and Macintosh)
Epson R2400 right out of the box 2008-02-14
As a long time Epson user, I am quite pleased with the R2400 so far. Just recently finishing some work on the 1280 (which the R2400 replaces) I am very glad that the new printer produced very well-matched results right out of the box.
The printer arrived in good physical condition and has worked properly from the start. No problems loading the inks and initializing the cartridges. There were no problems loading the drivers or the special profiles. The test page happened as it should on the first try.
At this point there have only been about 25 pictures run through the R2400 and the impact on the ink supply seems reasonable. None have reached the half way mark. For the initial tests I started out using glossy and lustre papers but switched to matte to see how the ink cartridge swap out went. My worries about that proved unfounded: so far so good.
The system is PC running Intel core duo with 4gb RAM. My message to prospective buyers is not to fear...the R2400 operates as advertised. I look forward to many satisfying images from this one and am glad to have the K3 inkset rather than the pigment inks used in the 1280 (the main reason to change.)
amazing prints 2008-01-18
This printer is simply amazing. Assuming you have paper profiles, accurate monitor calibration and know how to set up photoshop's printer dialogue, you will have faultless prints. Truly impressive. And the Advanced b/w settings make for wonderful black and white prints. If the print speed were a bit better, and the cost to print was more reasonable, I'd give the R2400 5 stars. If your output warrants it, for an almost immediately better cost/print go for the 3800.
Expensive doorstop 2008-01-05
Probably a great printer, but who knew that the latest print drivers don't work with OS 10.5? I sure wish I would have known before I bought this worthless junk.
Great Epson printer 2008-01-01
I've owned two other Epson printers and I like this one the best so far. It was truly plug and play with no problems. The color photos were beautiful - much better callibration than the R800. I haven't tried printing black & white photos yet but looking forward to that.
Only wish the ink price were less expensive ($100+ for a full set)and that Epson would have a recycle program. I emailed them to ask why they didn't but haven't heard back yet.
