good profile, good rag paper and epson genuine ink... and you can have very nice prints !
By the way, i've read somewere that the ink employed in the 9600 is supposed to be more archival than the current line... true ?
One of the problems with the second-source inks is that many are not archival.
I print little and use only original ink; i I were a business maybe I would not be so picky about making my customers prints last.
I do my own profiles, as I am a color consultant; in fact I mostly use my own software suite for my own prints on the theory that one should eat one's own cooking.
The 2100/9600 inks seem quite permanent to me. In some ways they look better than the next generation; however B&W prints need to be done in a different way with the old printers and inks, and are very easy to do with the new ones. The toughest tones to render with the old generation are flesh and hair shadows.
Edmund