Digital BW, The Print

Today the UPS man delivered my new Epson 1280 printer.  Gotta remember to get 
that $100 rebate info off to Epson.  Now there has been alot of interest in 
using the Euro 1290 driver on the US spec 1280 printer.  Now before I install 
this printer...why should I, or not, install the 1290 driver.  

I already have a C80 that I want to share on my computer....what are the 
pitfalls or what should I look out for.  My first guess is to uninstall the 
C80 before installing the 1280 and kinda making it the default printer.  That 
should make the ink monitor work on the 1290 driver...there is a matching ink 
monitor app on the Epson UK site along with the 1290 driver so I am assuming 
they are a match.

I would appreciate any advice on the setting up of these two printers.

Jerry in Houston


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Hi Jerry,

I have a 1200 and an 860, both on USB, as well as a Canon S9000 on USB, all active at the same time. I set the Canon as default and choose either the 1200 or 860 depending if I want MIS color or MIS B&W when I print with either Pshop or Qimage. No problems of any kind having them all hooked up and ready to go.  My operating system is WINXP.

Roger

  -----Original Message-----
  From: glewis4457@... [mailto:glewis4457@...]
  Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 6:11 PM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] Epson 1280 using 1290 driver


  Today the UPS man delivered my new Epson 1280 printer.  Gotta remember to get 
  that $100 rebate info off to Epson.  Now there has been alot of interest in 
  using the Euro 1290 driver on the US spec 1280 printer.  Now before I install 
  this printer...why should I, or not, install the 1290 driver.  

  I already have a C80 that I want to share on my computer....what are the 
  pitfalls or what should I look out for.  My first guess is to uninstall the 
  C80 before installing the 1280 and kinda making it the default printer.  That 
  should make the ink monitor work on the 1290 driver...there is a matching ink 
  monitor app on the Epson UK site along with the 1290 driver so I am assuming 
  they are a match.

  I would appreciate any advice on the setting up of these two printers.

  Jerry in Houston


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I am on a mac running 9.1 and cannot get the 1290 driver to see my 
usb port at all. I am trying to fix the problem of posterization with 
the 1280. Anyone else have this problem?

Matt McKee

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A lot of people seem to have had that problem to some degree or 
other, and not only on the 1280. My solution was to scrap the VM 
inks and mix my own with black and clear base stock. It has taken a 
dozen or more cart refills and several weeks, but I finally have an 
inkset that doesn't posterize, doesn't 'dump' the shadow values, 
uses the Epson driver, needs only a light tweak curve to smooth out 
the tonal scale, (as in no workflow) and is essentially WYSIWYG. 
So far, I've only been able to test it on my 780 and 1280, and would 
like to test it on a few more 6-ink machines before deciding what to 
do with the formula. Unfortunately, I can't afford to spend time and 
money to ditribute a bunch of carts, so if anyone is interested in 
trying this,I will need at least a virgin empty color cart, postage 
round-trip, and preferrably a contribution towards the cost of the 
ink as well. Which by the way is considerably cheaper than bying it 
pre-mixed, an incidental bonus. I would be willing to first mail out 
a few 5x7 print samples (send stamps?) to those seriously interested 
in tesing this for me, if you need convincing that it works. Please 
contact me off-list, I'll take the first 5 people with a desktop six-
ink printer( meaning no gas-hog 7X-9x machines), though not more 
than two of them should be 1280s and I'd like at least one of the 
1280s to be running on a Mac.
 
I hope a few of you take me up on this, I think you'll find it 
worthwhile!

Steve K

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Matt M 
<matt1729@r...> wrote:
> I am on a mac running 9.1 and cannot get the 1290 driver to see my 
> usb port at all. I am trying to fix the problem of posterization 
with 

> the 1280. Anyone else have this problem?
> 
> Matt McKee
> 
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