Ink usage
Here's a screen capture of the inks after the change over to Matte Black. What I should've also done is a screen capture just before swapping, next time. Main thing to note is the Matte black level.
It's probably worth comparing this to the screen capture of ink levels after the initial charge. Considering what I've printed they haven't gone down that much. I'll total everything I've printed tomorrow and add it to this post i.e. number of prints, sizes etc.
It looks like the 4800 has less of a thirst for light magenta than the 2100, nice.
Related, the Epson tech mentioned that ink usage per print data shown in the LFP utility should be taken with a grain of salt and definitely averaged over a number of prints due to the inaccuracy inherent in the process used to calculate usage.
I like how these 110ml carts are self-sealing! The Photo black is back in a plastic sleeve, stored in an old esky with my other inks.
posted by Pete Walsh @ 6:32 PM 7 comments
At 6:56 PM, Ted said...
Pete,
That seems like a lot of ink for a few days of printing. Do you have a rough figure of how many pages you have printed out? I would like to see how much of the ink was flushed during the change over or self-cleaning. Considering that was about half of $500 ink set, it seems quite expensive to run a 4800. I am mainly interested in R2400, but I suspect ink economy for it would be worse.
At 7:22 PM, Pete Walsh said...
Hi Ted,
I'll do a count and post that info tomorrow. I'm interested to see myself! But I have printed each day, and some days quite heavily - like today, the attic reaks of ink.
The ink charge after swapping black took me by surprise. Looking into that further, maybe I made a mistake but I was careful to follow the instructions.
Ink charge aside as it's an unknown ATM, say you were swapping blacks once a week for a matte or gloss print run, then changing back - the black ink 'wasted' over a year is significant $.
I think I'll probably settle for one black or the other, and maybe try to batch any prints using the other black once every couple of months. All of which makes choosing a new stock relatively quickly important - can't afford to make test prints for months on end.
At 7:39 PM, Pete Walsh said...
Also Ted it's probably worth comparing this screenshot to the screenshot taken after the first charge which dropped all the inks down to around 2/3. They're just under 1/2 now - that's not too bad.
I'll be throttling back on testing now so I'm hoping they will last for some time yet - at least until more are available :)
At 5:17 AM, Derek said...
Received my 4800 two days ago from Brisbane - despite a $600 freight bill was still considerably less than buying in NZ.
First B&W prints on PSPP excellent. Colour - the canned profiles heaps better than the 2100's. And fast in comparison, 3' 40" for an A4 at 1440.
FWIW GraphicsPlus could supply 220 ml cartridges but could not supply 110 ml.
At 6:19 AM, scott Graham said...
a reliable source tells me that a black change takes about 90 ml of ink,
only the black line is flushed, but the 4 lines on that side are evidently recharged
can't figure out why
Scott
At 9:36 AM, Pete Walsh said...
That is interesting Scott and seems to fit in with I saw. I should've checked out the ink level information befor and after. Looking forward to more info regarding the ink change.
At 9:38 AM, Pete Walsh said...
Wow Derek, that is a decent freight bill. Do you have to pay any kind of import duty on something like the 4800?
I agree about the profiles and the speed. I'll be keeping High Speed (Bi Directional) off from now on though - but it's still way fast enough.
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