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: Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:49:56 -0400
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:43:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: MARK SEGAL <email@hidden>
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
It isn't necessarily the OS per se -- it could be that the driver code
base is different. Certainly the matte vs. photo black issue almost
has to be a driver issue, not an OS issue.
--
Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail email@hidden
Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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