Hubby is a freelance photographer.
Hubby has the best digital SLR, the best everything, including what we thought was one of the best photo printers out there, the Epson Stylus R1800. Best until we upgraded to Mac Leopard that is.
Sure, we can blame Apple and Leopard for practically EVERYTHING not working on our computers, but for the most part, all we had to do was go up to the manufacturer's website and download the latest upgrades or newest drivers and everything worked... EXCEPT the Epson Stylus R1800.
Ok, so we go up to the Epson site to download the latest drivers. Oh, they aren't there. They have new drivers for the Mac-Intels, but not for the PowerPC computers. Isn't that just grand! We didn't realize that this was a big deal until hubby had a photo shoot and had to print out proof sheets and got what looked like scrambled eggs run over by a car 600 or 700 times. Oh, we need the new drivers, BUT THERE AREN'T ANY. Why? I don't know. You would think that Epson would offer drivers for the Mac-Intel AND the PowerPC, but NOOOOOO.
That's what I love about the technology biz. Everyone just assumes that you go out weekly and buy the latest computers. Heaven forbid you would actually use a computer for say, oh, more than a year. Everyone must have the latest computers and the latest software, and the latest everything. We are, after all, just literally pooping out money to go blow on the latest technology aren't we? Why on earth would we waste our time developing a driver for a TWO year old computer? Who on earth would use such an antiquated old thing, its all of TWO years old.
HP, on the other hand, is actually working with Mac and will be delivering updated drivers through the Mac updates. That's nice, that's really nice. EXCEPT I DON'T HAVE AN HP PRINTER!!!
After blowing over $500 on an Epson high end photo printer, I'm waiting for my next bowel movement so I can afford to toss that Epson piece of crap on the curb and go buy a nice $700 HP photo printer.
And people wonder why the cost of photographs are so high. Gee, next time someone asks, I'll hand them a slip of paper with the Epson CEO's e-mail address on it and say "ask this moron".
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Just downloaded the new printer driver (6.5) for my EPSON R800 printer that had been working fine. Well...the new driver detects that you are using a non-genuine EPSON cartridge and freaks out! Stops from you from cleaning heads, adjusting nozzles, etc. Nice. A-holes.
if you actually have the epson ceomoron's netmail, as we called it when we were inventing it, address it would be nice if you posted it here so it'd show up when googing epson ceo. or if my having to enter my gmail name below makes it available to you, perhaps you'd be so kind as to send it to me.
thanks and cheers, map
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