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Re: speaking of printers...


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  • From: Paul Viapiano <viapiano@pacbell.net>
  • Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:43:43 -0800
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Christina...

Making a change to any new OS, be it cross platform, or even within the PC realm from XP to Windows 7, will always wreak havoc with the associated peripherals, until the drivers for them are all updated AND debugged. Unfortunately that's a fact of life in this world we live in, where we the end users are the unpaid beta testers.

Did you ever notice that the computer industry is only one of two businesses that call its customers "users"? The other is drug dealers...

But I digress...

Paul



----- Original Message ----- From: "Christina Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
To: "Alt List" <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:36 AM
Subject: speaking of printers...


Wow,
I had said to the list I was going all Mac. Well, my 2400 printer now doesn't work very well at all. Only some of the heads are firing it seems. I know it is not the printer, because it works normally on other computers, and it works fine if I use Ultra photo mode in Photoshop. I uninstalled the old driver and installed the downloaded new driver from the Epson site. Anyone have any advice on this or experience with similar inadequate printing? It wasn't only the firing of the sprayer thingies (technical term) that was the issue. I had to realign the heads as well. Many times. So caveat--if you are switching to the new Mac operating system be prepared for a lot of time spent with the peripheral drivers...

I also noticed that CS4 is a bit buggy with my 4990 scanner, too.

Didn't realize making the permanent switch to Mac would take so much time and dinkin' around. It has literally taken a week or more.
Chris