On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:55 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
My Mac has no problem with cartridge swaps. It's a simple mattter. Quite PhotoShop if it's running. Open the printer utility, trash the old printer selection. Install the cartridge. Choose add in the printer utility and reselect the printer. When you reopen photoshop, the driver will recognize the new ink. Perhaps it's a problem with other software, by with OSX 10.3.x and PSCS, the ink swap routine is painless.
I don't call that painless. Painless is pressing the button, swapping the cartridge and the darn thing just working. Like it does in Windows, apparently.
Have you tried leaving the matte cartridge in the printer when you shut your system down? If you want to print matte again the next day you have to swap the cartridges then swap them back. Two ink recharge/cleaning cycles just to get back to where you started. Printer ink is about the most valuable liquid that money can buy...
Do you know how much frustration it caused me when I first got my printer, to find this bug that isn't documented by Epson? To make things even worse, the driver gives NO feedback as to why it's not printing. Epson NZ's support said they don't know anything about the Mac platform, so they wouldn't help (I thought they might have at least relayed my query to Australia or USA or somewhere). I only found the workaround by searching the net. Quite frankly I expected better for this level of hardware.
Sorry for the vent, it just brings back bad memories...
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
