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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QuadToneRIP Seems to Interfere with Epson Printer

2008-10-03 by Catherine Sobredo

Thank you for the info.  Will try.

Catherine


--- On Thu, 10/2/08, donbga <dsbryant@...> wrote:

> From: donbga <dsbryant@...>
> Subject: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QuadToneRIP Seems to Interfere with Epson Printer
> To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:05 PM
> Roy,
> 
> >
> > Hi Catherine,
> > 
> > When you install the Epson driver for the 2200 it
> becomes fixed to 
> the type of
> > black ink you have in at the time.  So if you install
> when there's 
> MK ink you
> > won't see any papers that take PK ink -- even if
> you change the ink 
> back to PK.
> > 
> > There are two approaches to dealing with this.  1)
> whenever you 
> change the
> > black ink cart to the opposite type of black you must
> delete and re-
> install the
> > Epson driver.  
> 
> Whoa, wait a minute. Re-installing the Epson driver
> isn't necessary 
> with a PC. Simply swap the carts and power cycle the
> printer. You may 
> need to reboot the PC as well but that's all it takes
> to see the 
> proper media options.
> 
> I'm not sure how QTR reads the ink cart, but it seems
> if it doesn't 
> read the printer directly it must be looking at some
> internal setting 
> that the Epson driver sets. 
> 
> Anyway swaping MK/PK or PK/MK carts on the 2200 doesn't
> require a 
> driver re-install.
> 
> Don Bryant

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