Re: Panther drivers for Epson 2200-No color correction?
Re: Panther drivers for Epson 2200-No color correction?
- Subject: Re: Panther drivers for Epson 2200-No color correction?
- From: Chris Franson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:17:33 -0500
On Dec 18, 2003, at 21:46, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
You shouldn't really even need to uninstall Gimp-Print, since it's
just a CUPS driver. I don't know what will happen if you try to
uninstall it from Panther, since it's installed with the core OS.
Robert,
First, thanks for the reply.
While it shouldn't be necessary to uninstall Gimp-print, in practice,
it seems to keep reinstalling a Gimp-print driven printer when a USB
Epson is attached (I personally saw this on 10.3.1, but have not tested
in 10.3.2). For people who have been using Epson printers for a fairly
long time, having an entirely new set of controls for the same old
printer is confusing and makes support of same difficult. Furthermore,
Gimp-print as shipped with Panther simply fails to work as expected
when printing to the 7600/9600 printers, causing errors or simply
failing to print at all.
It is possible to omit Gimp-print on installation of Panther by doing a
custom install and not checking the option for Gimp-print, so I can't
see that removing it is going to cause problems. My experience
indicates that this is correct, but I have not done what I would
consider extensive testing.
2) "No color correction" is somewhat of an oxymoron with inkjet
printers. If you use literally no color correction, the results
will be much too dark and you'll soak the paper.
True, but selecting that option in the Epson driver is necessary if
predictable color from the Epson inkjets is needed.
Don't get me wrong, I like the fact that Gimp-print is available;
however, I'm not certain if including it in a default OS installation
really solves more problems than it creates. In fact, Apple itself says
to use it only if no other driver is available. (KB article #135017)
Robert, an OT question you may be able to answer: does Panther have
Ghostscript-like capability in it for non-Postscript printers?
Sometimes it seems to, other times it doesn't.
Chris
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