About two months ago my apartment experienced water damage due to remodeling going on to the unit above me. Nothing really serious happened, but I did find a constant dripping into my old inkjet printer and about .25 liters in the printer chasis.
The very next day I contacted the remodelers and they apologised. They said we can get a new printer and they would pay for it. I wasnt looking for something expensive, just something that was like my old printer and I found the Epson C90, which even had Mac drivers.
We uppacked the printer, attached it to the Airport router, ran a test print on XP and went to install it on the Macs and low and behold I find out that there is a printing error. I go online and find out a lot of people are having problems with networked ink jet printers and I give up - until I find someone who uses Linux and see how they solved it.
Well many Linux users use CUPS printer drivers, and it just so happens Apple owns CUPS and licenses it to the opensource community. I found the driver in the most recent release of Gutenprint and select the driver, and printing is now A-OK.
I can’t really blame Apple for this problem, but I do blame Epson. You would think a printer company would QA the drivers properly before releasing them.
3 responses so far ↓
hello // May 5, 2008 at 11:39
I also have a c90 printer . It’s printer quality is best but printing speed is bad and makes crazy big noize while printing and rather big noises at end of the print job .
regards .
James // May 8, 2008 at 16:15
Im happy with the printer quality, as for noise? I was reading an article a while back about how our electronics don’t make enough noise. I remember my ImageWriter II making such a racket, and sometimes I miss that!
Gambit // June 2, 2008 at 17:39
I agree with you, James. But after awhile its just not fun anymore..
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