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 05:21:08 -0700 (PDT)
You can go back and forth and forth and back about whether it's a driver issue or an O/S issue, but just recall - Epson writes the drivers for both operating systems. If they got it right for one but it doesn't work for the other you would have to assume that they are either incompetent to write drivers for a Mac O/S (hard to believe) or there is something about how the O/S works which gives them real problems. This is most likely an issue which requires collaboration between them to fix. It's not an out-dated problem either. I've seen the non-stickiness of certain settings persist through current models and O/S versions being used in a studio here. This set-up, however, uses an 11880, where ink switching is a thing of the past, and the machine cleans itself as needed. I'm anxiously looking forward to this technology being replicated in the next generation of smaller Epson professional machines. To be frank, the need to replace any software or firmware
as a result of ink-switching is something I've never heard of before. I'd be inclined to agree that particular item is a driver issue, but sounds as if something got corrupted.
Mark
----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
To: MARK SEGAL <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden; email@hidden; email@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 7:49:56 AM
Subject: Re: Epson: Nice hardware, yucky printer drivers - enough already !
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>
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--Eric Crampton
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