Digital BW, The Print

Does anyone understand what triggers the ABW driver to return 
from "light" to it's default "darker" setting AFTER sending a print to 
the printer.

The circumstances which seem to trigger this irritating behaviour seem 
to involve using a saved custom setting and perhaps modifying it. I am 
not entirely sure what is happening but would like to warn others in 
case they come up against a similar mysterious glich in the driver 
software.

The way around it is to fill in all the relevant boxes one by one 
rather than call up this custom setting.

Pete.

Name and save your settings and then simply load them for each print - a 2
click exercise.  It's not a glitch.

> From: petexp2 <kafoozalem@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:53:38 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] R2400 : Mysterious default behavior of ABW driver
> 
> Does anyone understand what triggers the ABW driver to return
> from "light" to it's default "darker" setting AFTER sending a print to
> the printer.
> 
> The circumstances which seem to trigger this irritating behaviour seem
> to involve using a saved custom setting and perhaps modifying it. I am
> not entirely sure what is happening but would like to warn others in
> case they come up against a similar mysterious glich in the driver
> software.
> 
> The way around it is to fill in all the relevant boxes one by one
> rather than call up this custom setting.
> 
> Pete.
>

Pete-

I had completely forgotten this, but the original driver supplied 
with the 2400 was fine in this regard.  When I updated the driver 
from the Epson website, exactly the problem you describe started and 
I returned to the original driver from the CD.  I don't think Steve's 
suggestion will correct the glitch.  I posted this problem on the 
forum back in April or May.  Unfortunately I no longer have the 
driver on CD or installed on the computer and can't give you the 
driver numbers. 

Walt


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
>
> Name and save your settings and then simply load them for each 
print - a 2
> click exercise.  It's not a glitch.
> 
> 
> > From: petexp2 <kafoozalem@b...>
> > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:53:38 -0000
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [Digital BW] R2400 : Mysterious default behavior of ABW 
driver
> > 
> > Does anyone understand what triggers the ABW driver to return
> > from "light" to it's default "darker" setting AFTER sending a 
print to
> > the printer.
> > 
> > The circumstances which seem to trigger this irritating behaviour 
seem
> > to involve using a saved custom setting and perhaps modifying it. 
I am
> > not entirely sure what is happening but would like to warn others 
in

> > case they come up against a similar mysterious glich in the driver
> > software.
> > 
> > The way around it is to fill in all the relevant boxes one by one
> > rather than call up this custom setting.
> > 
> > Pete.
> >
>

What OS, is the printer directly connected to the one you are printing from,
what connection port on the printer?

I have exactly that happen occasionally on the 2200, and I don’t understand
it.  Printing over the network from WinXP, to a firewire connected 2200 on a
win2k box.
It only happens when messing with saved settings, as you said.

Best regards,
John Moody

-----Original Message-----
From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of petexp2
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:54 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] R2400 : Mysterious default behavior of ABW driver

Does anyone understand what triggers the ABW driver to return
from "light" to it's default "darker" setting AFTER sending a print to
the printer.

The circumstances which seem to trigger this irritating behaviour seem
to involve using a saved custom setting and perhaps modifying it. I am
not entirely sure what is happening but would like to warn others in
case they come up against a similar mysterious glich in the driver
software.

The way around it is to fill in all the relevant boxes one by one
rather than call up this custom setting.

Pete.





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Seems like I am not going mad after all (though I find it hard to 
consistently recreate the problem).
I am using Windows XP Home. The printer is one of two directly 
connected to PC. It uses USB 003 port. 
I am using the software supplied on CD in UK. I can't find a version 
number for it.

Pete.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Moody" 
<moodymz3@y...> wrote:
>
> What OS, is the printer directly connected to the one you are 
printing from,
> what connection port on the printer?
> 
> I have exactly that happen occasionally on the 2200, and I don't 
understand
> it.  Printing over the network from WinXP, to a firewire connected 
2200 on a
> win2k box.
> It only happens when messing with saved settings, as you said.
> 
> Best regards,
> John Moody
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of 
petexp2
> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:54 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] R2400 : Mysterious default behavior of ABW 
driver
> 
> Does anyone understand what triggers the ABW driver to return
> from "light" to it's default "darker" setting AFTER sending a print 
to
> the printer.
> 
> The circumstances which seem to trigger this irritating behaviour 
seem
> to involve using a saved custom setting and perhaps modifying it. I 
am

> not entirely sure what is happening but would like to warn others in
> case they come up against a similar mysterious glich in the driver
> software.
> 
> The way around it is to fill in all the relevant boxes one by one
> rather than call up this custom setting.
> 
> Pete.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Hello Pete,

>I am using the software supplied on CD in UK. I can't find a 
>version number for it.

I'm using the driver that came with the printer, and don't have the
problem.  It's version 5.51 (at the bottom of the "Maintenance" tab page).


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

Hi Clayton, Yep mine is version 5.51. Curious...

Pete

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" 
<cj@c...> wrote:
>
> Hello Pete,
> 
> >I am using the software supplied on CD in UK. I can't find a 
> >version number for it.
> 
> I'm using the driver that came with the printer, and don't have the
> problem.  It's version 5.51 (at the bottom of the "Maintenance" tab 
page).

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>