I'm not going to upgrade my Mac OS and if i buy a new PC he has XP disk's still.
I;ll get XP then i know my 2400 will work. Its working well, and i have no plans to buy another $1000 printer just because an OS has changed., Dave On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:49 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Cymen Vig wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:20 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:28:09PM -0800, Joseph McAllister wrote: >>>> >>>> I don't think anyone should support a company or an industry that >>>> demands you keep your wallet open to them on their whim at all times. >>> >>> Like, say, Apple? Or are all those OS upgrades (10.1/2/3/4/5/6) free? >>> >>> I'm firmly in the camp that says once you've got a system runnning, >>> don't mess with it (also know as "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"). >>> And I certainly don't want to pay them to break things for me. >> >> I strongly agree. It's a matter of priorities. Is printing important? >> Then the priority is keeping that working not getting the latest >> upgrade. I suspect part of the problem is that Apple wants to keep OS >> fixes/maintenance releases in sync with new user-land features to keep >> people upgrading. Yet while doing that, they also broke backwards >> support for the Epson driver. >> >> Who is really to blame? Apple for breaking the compatibility or Epson >> for failing to work. I wouldn't accept Apple's stance that "if I tell >> you about something ahead of time, it's okay to break things" as >> acceptable when they are going the "shiny new features upgrade now" >> route. The shiny new features are almost always user land programs -- >> not core OS (kernel, kernel API) changes. But it would appear you >> can't have those shiny features without also upgrading your core OS. >> Apple chose to do at least two things: bundle core OS changes with >> shiny new features and break backwards compatibility. >> >> I have no fish in the OS X kettle but I did just buy a refurbished >> Epson 3800. I could afford that but not a new Epson 3880. I'm still >> waiting for it to arrive but I see Epson does have Windows 7 >> compatible drivers available on their site. Future driver upgrades are >> a concern but I assume a lot of bugs have already been worked out with >> this driver and the 3800 so my concern was minor enough to go forward >> with the purchase. >> > > I hope you're right. But I should point out that Epson does have an R2400 > driver available on their site that is allegedly compatible with Mac OSX > 10.6. It just doesn't work in any of the advanced printing modes. Perhaps > they did a better job with Windows 7. > > Paul > > >> Cymen >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
