The addition of light-light black (which used the second main black ink slot) was the reason for dropping the ability to have both matte and glossy black simultaneously. But then after a very brief market life these were replaced by the 4800, 78 which require the user to switch black inks when alternating between glossy and matte papers, at a cost of more than $75 each time in wasted ink.
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For example, the Stylus Pro 4000(and its larger siblings) allowed both matte and glossy black inks to be loaded simultaneously. While Epson is to be commended for almost single-handedly inventing the fine-art photo printer market, it has stumbled badly from time to time. But in 2006 that landscape changed, and both Canon with its iPF 5000and now HP with the Pro B9180are challenging Epson’s hegemony. Through several generations of printers, from consumer models to high end commercial versions, Epson has almost had the pigment ink market to itself for a number of years. But none can match the 80 – 200 year ratings of pigment inks on quality paper. Nevertheless, dye based inks have continued to improve, and when used with some specialty papers offer archival ratings of 30 – 70 years. Prints made using pigment based inks even rival silver gelatin based prints, ( unless selenium or gold toned and archivally processed). These actually exceed that of any colour reproduction process yet seen. Pigment inks offer a level of permanence not seen from printers which use dye-based inks. It was a flawed product, but it paved the way for subsequent generations of Epson pigment ink printers, currently culminating in the R2400, Stylus Pro 4800, 78, all of which use Epson’s K3third generation pigment ink set. This was the first affordable printer to use pigment-based inks. The photo-quality inkjet printer marketplace went though a revolution in the year 2000 when Epson brought out the Stylus 2000P.
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