Digital BW, The Print

Clayton,
Yes the Mac driver is different. Well, superficially it is, but maddeningly
the ³page setup² which involves paper orientation, scaling is separate from
everything else. And if that¹s not confusing enough, the color management is
in yet another set of dialogue boxes (print with preview) separate from
(finally) the Œprint¹ series of Epson dialog boxes that have the controls
you will be familiar with i.e. ABW, ink density, etc...

The steps usually are:
1. Print with preview: where you can tag your image with profiles, let ps
handle color management...from here you can click a button to go to page
setup or go ahead and print.
2. page setup makes sure your images stay within the paper sizes (and where
you can select where the printer will have its paper fed)
3. print: abw mode, layout, ink config. Other various sundry options

And they seem to make adjustments in reference to each other despite seeming
independent from one another. Hence, when I change to manual roll to access
vfa, going back to the first set and changing resets all your saved configs.


On 10/17/06 11:26 AM, "Clayton Jones" <cj@...> wrote:

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> Hello Frank,
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>> >Would LOVE to be able to do that. But unless I¹m overlooking
>> >something, I can¹t go back to page setup (I¹m on a Mac BTW and
>> >reside in the U.S.) to switch back to sheet feeder.
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>> >So once I¹ve selected manual roll to access VFA, even if I save my
>> >config. Settings, once I go back to it, it resets by default...
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> Hmmm...I'm wondering if the Mac driver is different.  The phrase "go
> back to page setup" has no meaning for me.  First, I have nothing
> called "Page Setup".  All of the settings we've mentioned for me are
> on a tab page called "Main".  Second, since it's all done on that page
> there is nothing to "go back" to.  Please look at these screen shots
> and see if it's different from your driver:
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> 1) This shows the Properties window when it first opens: Sheet, Plain
> paper, Normal, Color Controls
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> http://www.cjcom.net/files/2400-1.gif
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> 2) This shows the paper list, with VFA not grayed out, highlighted
> for selection
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> http://www.cjcom.net/files/2400-2.gif
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> 3) This show the warning box when VFA is selected.  Choose Ignore and
> Sheet remains.  Chooks OK and it switches to Manual Roll, but you can
> then switch it back to sheet:
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> http://www.cjcom.net/files/2400-3.gif
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> There is no "going back" to anything, it's all on the same tab page.
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> 4) This is after the rest of the settings are done: Best Photo, ABW
> mode (with Settings button showing)
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> http://www.cjcom.net/files/2400-4.gif
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> 5) The Settings button opens the ABW window.  Here the Tone is set to
> Light, all sliders at 0, and the ABW H/V spinners are set to some
> desired values.
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> http://www.cjcom.net/files/2400-5.gif
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> At this point it's ready to be saved as a custom setting.
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> Is the Mac driver different?
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> Regards,
> Clayton
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> Info on black and white digital printing at
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
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