Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Lloyd O'Daniel" <lodaniel@b...> 
wrote:
>But the free driver is probably
> better than nothing.

Well Ink does hit the paper... It's certainly not hitting as good as it could or 
should. Want to see just what the driver really does? Send a file out using "No 
Color Adjustment." That's how all the Epson profiles are based (on that driver 
behavior). It's god awful. I sometimes wonder if some color scientist tested the 
method in which the most ink would be wasted in order to drive the printer in 
this fashion. 

 
> The bottom line is that Epson saw fit to release the 2100 with all the
> advertised features and software of the original Japanese model. Then,
> they released the 2200 as a crippled, stripped-down version of that
> printer. 

That's totally extreme. It prints just like any other 2200 printer in the world. You 
didn't get a kludgy piece of software with it. The 2200 I have prints prints just 
as well as any other 2200. It's better with a good ICC profile and MUCH better 
with the ColorByte RIP. 


>And, it's the only one I can get. I resent that. Epson doesn't
> owe me anything, but I don't have to buy the printer. I wouldn't have
> bought my Camry had Toyota decided to offer AC and automatic
> transmission only outside North America. If Epson's goal is to maximize
> sales rather than alienate the most affluent portion of their customer
> base (the US and Canada), then they should realize what a big PR fiasco
> this is and try to rectify it. It's called Customer Relations.

So let's put GB behind us since it's just more of the same junk software from 
Japan and get Epson to supply us a product that makes the printers print 
better, faster and more productively. The more people demand GB, the more 
Japan justifies it's need to continue to spend time and money making bad 
software. I suspect that what it cost to develop GB, Epson could have 
purchased ColorByte! 

  
> Beta testing and feature sets should be done before the product is
> marketed anywhere. It seems to me that Epson either deprived us of
> useful features, or foisted junk on the rest of the world. 

The latter!