Re: speaking of printers...
Thanks, Keith, for all the advice, It is photo black. It is the same print/file printed with a windows and a mac both, same printer, same everything except printer driver/platform. What happens with the Mac is that it prints...weird...like the printer driver is not making all nozzles fire. But no problem with this on the PC! But I will print a nozzle check on the Mac and PC at the same time and see if I am correct. When I print out the test pattern head alignment thing, it only prints a few spots. Again, I will do a side by side of PC and Mac and see if my surmise is correct--that it is not the nozzles but the driver. No problem with this printer ever until I printed with the new driver. The old driver of course is still on the PC. THAT'S also what I will do--print a nozzle check etc. from the printer itself. Can't wait to get home and do it. BTW it is not just an issue of PDN negs, but ALL docs I am printing are not working--Excel, Word, Images in Photoshop, PDFs--everything. It is the worst buggy issue I have ever seen in 22 years of computers. Unfortunately I got rid of my computer and all previous software. When I went whole hog Mac I gave the whole kit and caboodle away :( so there is no turning back. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Schreiber <keith@jkschreiber.com> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Re: speaking of printers... Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:20:06 -0700 >Hi Chris, > >A few comments, observations and questions: > >First, I looked at the images linked to in your other post. >The one on the left looks like what my 3800 would do >printing a text document on plain paper using Photo >black. The one on the right, using Matte black. Which >black do you have installed in the printer in question? I >understand that the 2400, unlike the 3800, requires >physically changing the cartridge to change black modes. > >By "sprayer thingies" I think you mean nozzles. Are you >saying that the same printer will produce good nozzle >checks when printed from your PC, but not from your Mac? >What happens if you run the nozzle check from the >printer's control panel rather than from either computer? > >I'm pretty sure head alignment and nozzle cleaning is >strictly a printer issue and is independent of platform, >though coincidence may seem to suggest otherwise. > >According to chatter on a few digital groups that I follow, >both Snow Leopard and CS4 have been quite buggy with >Epson (and other) printer drivers, especially with >regards to color management, so it seems wise to stay >with Leopard (or Tiger) and CS3 if possible, at least >until Apple, Adobe, and Epson learn to play well together. > >I agree with other suggestions regarding QTR for making >digital negs. Not that there is anything wrong with PDN >but it does rely on the Epson driver which seems to be >where the problems lie. The Mac version of QTR functions >as a separate printer driver, bypassing the Epson driver. > >Good luck solving your problem and I hope this helps at >least a little. > >Keith >www.jkschreiber.com > > > >On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Christina Anderson wrote: > >> 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 > |