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 20:03:16 -0400
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:29:46 -0700
From: "Roy Harrington" <email@hidden>
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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.
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.
That makes more sense. Gutenprint allows you to use either ink set
with any kind of paper -- if you want to print matte black ink to
glossy paper, it won't stand in your way. I guess that's *my*
philosophy yielding yet another outcome; I'm not a big fan of software
not letting you do something "for your own good".
--
Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
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Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail email@hidden
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"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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