Re: speaking of printers...

[Paul Viapiano <viapiano@pacbell.net>]

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