Thanks Doug. Good info. I've never tried printing from another machine. My work laptop is locked, and I can't install drivers on it. But my prints from the R2400 were perfect for the first month I had it. It started printing badly from one print to the next last Saturday. Between prints I may have logged off and logged back on. I might also have opened the "Print with Preview" window. In general, the computer was acting a bit flakey, probably due to not enough space on the startup drive. I've since cleaned that up, and the computer is working well, but the problem persists. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Paul Stenquist wrote: > > By the way, I already tried reinstalling the Epson R2400 printer > > driver. However, I didn't remove the old one first, and my print > > settings were still as I had left them after installing the new driver. > > This caused me to wonder if I had actually succeeded in replacing the > > driver. Should I have deleted the old driver first? If so, where would > > I find it? I'm running OS3 on a G4 Mac. > > You might need to run the uninstall program, then delete the driver's > directory manually before reinstalling the driver. Companies have > gotten better about that sort of cleanup in their uninstall programs, > but there sometimes still are uninstallers that don't really get rid of > everything. > > I don't know where those print settings are stored on OS3, but under > Windows they'd likely be in the Registry, and likely would not be > deleted when you reinstall the driver. They might or might not get > deleted when you remove the driver, depending on how well Epson did > their job on both the installation program and the driver itself. > > That said, I have had situations in the past where I had to run the > "uninstall" sequence, then open up the file system finder/explorer and > delete the driver directory (often after rebooting because the driver is > still loaded). Under Windows, I've even had to manually go in and get > the driver's settings out of the Registry to sort a problem. > > Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the Macs, so I can't help > with where you might find the driver files or settings. On a Windows > machine the files are often in C:\Windows\System32 or C:\Windows\Drivers > or a subdir of them. The settings are typically in the Registry, but > exact locations can vary pretty widely. > > >> These prints are off as well, but in a different direction. > > Wow, that's freaky. You surely implied it, but I don't know if you said > it ... prior to this problem, was the R2400 making "matching" prints of > the same photo when you printed from the two different machines? > > >> Since these err in a different way, should I assume it's a > >> computer or software problem? Should I try reinstalling PhotoShop? > >> Could it still be a printer problem? Tough questions, I believe. > > At this point, I'm not sure any candidate has been completely > disqualified, except maybe the ink cartridges. :-) Maybe check the > printer's manual and see if there's a way to "reset to factory defaults" > all of its settings. If the printer allows it, it probably involves > turning it off, then turning it on while holding down some of the > buttons on the printer. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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