Digital BW, The Print

Hello Jack,

>just now I received a statement of an Epson employee:
>The German printer driver for the R2400 offers printing in the
>"Grayscale-Mode" with the three Blacks K, LK and LLK,
>so its real BO with three K-Inks without tone or hue.

I just downloaded and installed the latest European driver 6.5c dated
April '07 for Vista/XP/W2K.  It does indeed have a Grayscale check box
and I just ran a print.  

Sorry to say, it is _not_ K-Only.  It is a very blueish cold tone (on
EEM), and under a 6x loupe I can see loads of either C or LC dots,
plus a small amount of either M or LM and some Y.  This is just a
dumbed down arbitrary grayscale tone for (I guess) people who don't
want to fiddle with ABW settings.  As I said before, when you print
using K-Only you get an ugly sickish yellow green tone.

OF COURSE, in Epson's infinite wisdom, installing a new driver erased
all my custom settings and user defined paper sizes...SIGH.  You'd
think Epson would be intelligent enough to know that people actually
use their custom settings and store these in a separate folder so that
updating a driver wouldn't erase them.  But I guess that's too much to
ask. 

To add insult to injury, it now has a very large and in-your-face
bright white printing popup dialog that is obnoxious compared to the
small gray discreet one in the original driver.

To add Co$t to the injury and insult, the new driver triggered a full
blown cleaning cycle.   GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

I am now going to try and restore back to the original driver.  What a
royal pain.

IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT!

Regards,
Clayton


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