Digital BW, The Print

Hello Sam,
Thank you very much for the references to the Mac Epson and MacInTouch. I was not 
aware of them. I look forward to learning from them.
I was able to figure out the print driver. All the utility is there, I think, the interface is just 
vastly different and perhaps a little less convenient, but not bad. The settings for paper, 
gamma, BO vs color, etc. are accessed through the regular "print" selection in the drop 
down menu and then selecting the "copies and pages" option for a variety of settings to 
use for printing that cover the same things one encounters in the Epson driver on the PC. 

We had been using a G5 desktop as our main computer. As our house is very small we 
were also considering changing to a macbook pro in '07 given its putative performance for 
its size. 5 weeks ago our G5 went in for service, fortunately covered under Apple Care. In 
the mean time we had to use an old PC laptop to get by, thus the printing (barely) using 
the PC platform. Apple was unable to fix our G5 and replaced it with a MacPro desktop. A 
nice ending, but it took them 5 weeks to get to that point, which was frustrating. So we 
are now on the Intel Mac platform ahead of schedule and on a desktop, not a laptop as 
planned. I can't comment on the performance of Aperture and Photoshop CS2 on the 
MacBook Pro. I can say that I'm very happy with how they have run on the new Mac Pro 
desktop for the last 24 hours...
-Harlan
 --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sam McCandless <samcc@...> 
wrote:
>
> On Dec 8, 2006, at 8:56 PM, hhchapman4104 wrote:
> 
> > I've been successfully using the Epson driver on a PC to produce  
> > nice BW prints with the R220
> > and UTR2 inks. Thank you, forum!
> 
> Congratulations, Harlan.
> 
> 
> > Have just switched to an Intel Macintosh and am not able to access  
> > the Epson driver to
> > control printing after downloading the appropriate Intel Mac driver  
> > from the Epson website.
> > Advice on how to control printing on the new Mac would be appreciated.
> > Thank you,
> > -Harlan
> 
> I haven't upgraded to an Intel Mac yet, Harlan (because I've been  
> waiting for a MacBook Pro I think might do as a desktop replacement  
> for me), so I haven't any advice about how to do it. But since you've  
> just switched, I thought you might not yet know about some of the  
> specifically-Mac online resources which might help.
> 
> For example, there's a nice small MacEpsonList, also at YahooGroups,  
> and your 220 question should make a good introduction to it. In  
> particular, I'll look forward to seeing Denver Dan's response to it.
> 
> The MacInTouch.com web site is a more general resource which includes  
> topical Reader Reports, in this case "Printing" with an Epson subset.  
> I skim at least the first screenful of MacInTouch daily (and use its  
> Amazon link to partially pay for its free service).
> 
> If MacInTouch is our daily "newspaper", TidBITS is our weekly  
> magazine, but it's more than that, and you can get it free off of  
> tidbits.com or have it e-mailed to you free each Tuesday morning. But  
> it's not so oriented to specific problems. So until the Mac users  
> with a 220 on this list pipe up, I'd ask on the MacEpsonList and on  
> MacInTouch.com's reader report on printing with Epsons.
> 
> Good luck; in a few months, I hope to be asking you MacIntel questions.
> --
> Sam
>