Thanks for posting this, Paul. I haven't upgraded to Snow Leopard yet and looks like I'm going to wait it out for now.
-Brendan ----- Original Message ---- > From: paul stenquist <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, November 1, 2009 7:07:16 PM > Subject: Re: My Last Epson Printer? > > > On Nov 1, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM, P N Stenquist wrote: > >> The driver for the 4800 is just as ancient as that for the 2400. Epson has > >> clearly dropped the ball on snow leopard. > >> Back to 10.5 for me. > >> Paul > > > > The difference is I expect an updated driver at some point for the 4800. > > It should be ready now. But Epson is notoriously late with driver upgrades. I > suspect that the 4800 driver and the 2400 driver are virtually identical, as > they're similar printers. I think it there's a new driver for the 4800, there > will be one for the 2400 as well. However, Epson contends that their current > drivers will work with either printer and snow leopard. From what I've read > on > the web, neither the 4800 nor the 2400 driver that's currently available is > fully functional. From my own testing, I know the driver for the 2400 > doesn't > allow printing with PhotoShop in control. > > I suppose I'm more annoyed than I should be. I can easily go back to 10.5. > But > after many hours on the phone with Epson techs, I've come to the conclusion > that > their support is seriously lacking. > Paul > > > > Note I've had similar issues, Epson dropped support for the 2400's > > Firewire port on Vista (and Win7), which was a real PITA since I > > prefer using Firewire when possible. > > > > --M. Adam Maas > > http://www.mawz.ca > > Explorations of the City Around Us. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow > the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
