Digital BW, The Print

On my Mac, also still under 9.1, I have two 1160s, also one for B&W 
and one for color, but only one (not re-named) driver. So I just turn 
on the printer I want (otherwise I leave them covered, and turned off 
so the heads will be parked on the pads and not dry out). Having 
turned on the one I want to use, I try to do a nozzle check, and 
change the USB port selection in the Chooser if the nozzle check 
doesn't work (I don't leave paper in the printers).

This is less trouble than it sounds like because when I first turn 
the computer on each day, I Nozzle-Check and do a Clean if necessary 
(rarely), on each printer, doing the B&W first and therefore leaving 
the Chooser, by default, on the color port for the rest of the day 
unless I print some B&W. If the humidity were very low where I live, 
I would do the same thing each day before shutting the computer down 
overnight. And I would do it anyway if I didn't get perfect 
Nozzle-Check prints almost every day, both with MIS VM Sepia-Neutral 
and with Gen4 color (with VM black swapped in for Gen4 K).

Sam McCandless                 samcc@...


>I am on a mac running OS 9.1. Margaret said she thought it shouldn't
>be a problem, I just need to go to the chooser and tell the driver
>which usb port to print to. I will have to give it a try when the
>printer gets here but I was kind of hoping that I could name the
>driver epson 1280 bw and epson 1280 color, or something like that.
>
>It may be that it was never meant to be set up like this and I will
>have to change my work flow to accomodate.
>
>What do other people do with a duel printer set up if they are twin printers?
>
>Matt