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: "Roy Harrington" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:29:46 -0700
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Dana Rasmussen <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 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
> I am not sure this is true.
> In Windows something is seeing the printer has changed subtly. Still the
> same printer, but not the same printer. In Mac with the Epson driver that
> does not happen with-out reloading the driver. I do not use GP so I am not
> sure how you deal with that.
> I cannot think of another set of printers that duplicate what is going on
> here. Which might be the reason Apple has not felt the need to address the
> issue.
> Dana Rasmussen
> Seattle
>
It's really a combination of philosophies in both the OS and the
driver. In the OS,
Mac makes a bigger distinction between Page Setup and Print -- print selections
are one or the other, not both. On PC's you can do many Print
selections in Page Setup.
Epson chose to put MK/PK ink selection and paper feed issues in Page Setup and
the "easiest" way for MK/PK was a different driver name. The advantage was
that only papers appropriate for the ink installed would be shown in
the Print dialogs.
For the Pro printers ink change is rare so it was probably OK but for
the 2200/R2400
ink changes are easy so the driver change is a hassle. BTW, its easy
to just create
2 printer names one for MK and one for PK and just leave them there.
It not a great situation. At least for the 3800 they've changed the
idea -- selecting
a paper initiates an ink change if needed.
Roy
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