Digital BW, The Print

Paul, Martin,

as you know, on a Mac it seems to be impossible to use the 
1290 with its original Epson Mac-driver for printing  MIS VM 
Hexatone inks with Paul´s curves. It results in extrem 
posterisation.

I tried the 1280 Mac-driver  from Epson, but it didn´t run my 1290, 
same thing with the 1270 driver.

Now there was this guy on the piezo list, who reported to run his 
1290 with the 1280 driver. I suppose he should be on a PC.
So I switched the machines (Mac-->PC) and downloaded the 
1280 PC driver for WIN ME. During the install-procedure an error 
message showed up (Setup didn´t find the 1280 printer to be 
connected)  - can be ignored, the Epson 1280 Win ME driver 
runs the 1290 printer though.
First results with Paul´s  neutral curve are much much better 
than wit the 1290 driver (seems the drivers differ substantly)
 
BTW I didn´t download the print monitor for the 1280, what is 
recommended heavily by Epson... and surprise surprise:
the driver doesn´t recognize that I´m printing with third party inks 
and CIS:  no cartridge- or nk error message at all.
Does this mean the chip is controlled by the print monitor and is 
ignored if the monitor isn´t installed ?????????????????????

Bernd





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> Bernd,
> 
> You are not alone. The Piezo 1280 driver doesn't quite work 
with the 
> 1280 under Windows 2000 either. Only prints about 98% of the 
image. I 
> posted to Bill Bergh and hopefully these are minor bugs that 
can be 
> resolved quickly. There are also issues with this driver and the 
> NoMoreCarts CIS with the chipped cartridges.
> 
> Martin
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., " Ruhrfoto/Bernd L." 
> <ruhrfoto@y...> wrote:
> > There was a post on the Piezo list yesterday, suggesting to 
run 
> > the 1290 with the 1280 driver downloaded from Epson.com.
> > That doesn´t work for me on a Mac. 
> > Anybody out there with some experiences ??
> > 
> > Thanks. 
> > Bernd