Digital BW, The Print

In this respect I will come to Peter¹s defence.    If an improved dither can
be achieved by a modest change to a printer¹s driver (I have no idea whether
this is the case or not) then it would be nice to see Epson bring such an
advance to the very popular 21/2200.  Epson is lousy and worse yet sloppy
when it comes to its drivers.  For example, swapping black inks with a Mac
can still be a pain and requires a work around.  Another case, with the US
driver one can print BO to RC paper and the printer will use just the black
ink.  With the European 2100 driver it uses all the ink. Why?  Sloppiness,
lack of coordination, apathy?  When I asked Epson UK support why this was
the case they took 4 weeks to respond.  There response was in effect ³sorry
for the delay, if you still have a query please enquire again²!!

But in the end it is all economics.  We still all buy their printers even
though they come with sloppy software.  Would we still buy their printers if
they cost twice the competition but had good drivers?  BO, and for that
matter B&W, are minute segments of a huge market opportunity.  I suspect
Epson will continue to ignore these peripheral market segments so that they
do not lose focus on the broader goal.  But if dither algorithms were to
cause a competition gap in the colour segment then I suspect we would
quickly see an updated driver.  Unfortunately I doubt this will occur and
more likely the competition is still very much hardware driven.  And so
exists a market for small entrepreneurial companies and individuals to
develop solutions for these problems.  Thankfully for the B&W community, the
development digital B&W is a passion for a small number of individuals who
have spent and continue to spend enormous amounts of time making good B&W
available to us ­ and for very little in reward except free ink or token
payments.

Having said that, it would still be nice if Epson was a little less sloppy
in their driver production and made a concerted effort to bring any new
driver-driven enhancements developed alongside new printers to their current
family of printer models.  But whining amongst ourselves is hardly a
solution.  Whine to Epson and make it a very visible part of the purchase
decision.  


From: "Peter Nelson" <pnweb@...>

I don't see how coming out with a replacement for the 2200 addresses
my complaint that we will have to buy an expensive new printer just
to get 5 lines of source code.   Or were you implying that Epson
will issue a new driver for the 2200?
  





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