Re: Epson: Nice hardware, yucky printer drivers - enough already !
Re: Epson: Nice hardware, yucky printer drivers - enough already !
- Subject: Re: Epson: Nice hardware, yucky printer drivers - enough already !
- From: MARK SEGAL <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:43:38 -0700 (PDT)
Most of these problems are specific to the Mac O/S. I've been using Epson professinal printers for years on Windows operating systems and apart from the print centering issue in the first release of CS3 (which was an Adobe problem fixed with 10.0.1) I have had no issues, starting from Windows 98 (2nd edition) and the Epson 4000, through Windows XP SP2 and the Epson 4800 and 3800. The Epson driver U.I. for Windows is compact and easy to use. Settings stick to where one put them, and the prints come out as expected (with appropriate colour management). With CS3 10.0.1 the interface between the PS Print Module and the Epson driver is orderly, well-behaved and pretty seamless. There was no need to change drivers with an ink switch on the 4800, and with the 3800 swithcing between PK and MK is almost a non-issue. I have no personal experience using a 9600 on a Windows O/S, but I have not seen or heard of the kind of complaints with Windows which Edmund
and before him others have raised concerning this printer (or the 7600) in the O/S X environment. I don't intend to start a Mac vs. PC thing here - that's absolutely not the intention, but it is an observation that in this particular instance the O/S has much to do with the issues. I can't understand why between Apple and Epson for so many years these problems have not been resolved - they sure know about them, but there we are.
Mark
----- Original Message ----
From: edmund ronald <email@hidden>
To: Dana Rasmussen <email@hidden>
Cc: Colorsync <email@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 6:07:39 AM
Subject: Re: Epson: Nice hardware, yucky printer drivers - enough already !
A facile remark, but not quite appropriate.
I have a 2400, and can't say that usability is any better - settings
are equally convoluted and buggy, ***colorsync interaction equally
buggy***.
Oh, and yes, it doesn't do PK/MK switching without a reinstall of the drivers.
Robert has emailed me, he thinks that the stability issues
-half-finished prints- have also been reported with Gutenprint on
Leopard with the 9600, indicating that the base OS may be at fault
here.
I think it's time the inkjet driver model got cleaned up a bit -
everyone has an inkjet these days. And the whole profile business is
not going to go very far if users cannot figure out how to get the
same amount of ink on paper when using sheet or roll feed, or from two
different OS versions.
Edmund
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Dana Rasmussen <email@hidden> wrote:
>> RECOMMENDATION: Epson should realize that their hardware is only as
>> good as the drivers. Which need to be reworked for usability and
>> functionality.
>>
>> Edmund
> Which they have done.
> What they have not done is updated drivers on printers 2 generations old
> which I suppose you might argue they should.
> Dana Rasmussen
> Seattle
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