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: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:51:43 -0400
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:46:44 +0200
From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
I'm a big fan too of letting the user override any setting.
But give her sane defaults to start with :)
Agreed. Was that a general comment, or are there specific defaults in
Gutenprint that you believe should be changed (let's get all that out
on the table while 5.2 is in beta; I don't want to change defaults
after 5.2 final release!)
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Robert Krawitz <email@hidden> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:29:46 -0700
> From: "Roy Harrington" <email@hidden>
> 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".
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Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
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--Eric Crampton
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