On Monday, June 13, 2005, at 05:46 AM, Beverly Woods wrote:
I wrote:
Also I have an
older printer (Epson 740) and the OS X drivers will not allow me to
print
with black ink even on a B & W document (very annoying), so I
sometimes run
Classic so I can print things in black ink, rather than using up my
color
carts to print in black.
and Chas wrote:
As the owner of an Epson 740 (finally retired after five years of
faithful service and only one major clog in favour of an Epson R200),
I assure you that I could print B&W documents (I did little else
with it, honestly) using at least 10.2 and up if not farther back.
In OS X there is usually a little checkbox in the print dialog
somewhere that says "print text in black" for when the document is
color but the text needs to be pure black. And of course if the
program allows you to print grayscale/B&W (most sophisticated print
programs do), of course the Epson would honour this.
Chas, I have been all through every dialog and option, and in my
installation there appears to be no way to choose black ink for the
740 with the OS X drivers. It will happily print grayscale documents,
but it does so by using the color ink to make black and gray (as I
confirmed one day when I was running low on a color and the grayscale
came out blue).
If anyone can tell me exactly where in what option or dialog one can
choose black ink for the 740 with the X drivers, I will be very happy.
Beverly
On my Epson 785EPX, the "Print Settings" dialog box when you go to
print something contains a choice for "Ink: x color x black". This is
in OSX. The driver from Epson will determine what parameters you can
set and adjust. Not all printers may have this option, but that's
where it probably would be. This is the page where you select what
paper to use, quality setting, Epson natural color, etc.
Epson never made a driver for my earlier 700 Photo printer for OSX
<turkeys>. I've found the driver not very well engineered for the 785.
Color matching is grossly off and there are no good instructions on
what variables do precisely what. And I have lots of problems with
clogging. I think my next ink-jet will be a Canon.
/grumble mode off
Hope this helps.
- Peter Schaff
PM: 1GHz DP/1 GB/80GBx2/10.2.8
iMac: 600MHz/768MB/40GB/10.2.8
PB: 3400C/9.1
Brother HL-1870N laser, Epson 785EPX, Epson 2450 scanner
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