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If this is MacOS X @ it's best...
Authored by: pruski on Aug 19, '01 12:44:03PM

My God!

If I have to believe Epson (and Apple): printer support will be greatly improved in version 10.1... Well, according to me it is not going to improve. A lot of printers out there are unsupported and once again it is shown that a lot of low-end, "South American" and "European"-models are excluded of the driver upgrade...

I cannot imagine it's very hard to make those drivers. Certainly when you have the resources of how the hardware is setup!

In Europe Epson sells it's 580-series low-end printer. I don't have seen a driver for that printer and in some way I don't even expect support for this printer in the near future...

A lot of disapointed students :-)... ... ...

This is my first and last Epson printer I've ever bought, that's for sure. I bought this printer 5 months ago... With a MacOS 9 driver in the BOX!!!!!!!!!!

It's a bit strange to tell the public that: nobody forces you to upgrade your system to MacOS X when Apple and almost every developer is making the transition to MacOS X... Making .PDF files and printing them from MacOS 9 is absurd!

If this printer would be over 36 months, well... Okay, maybe... Somehow this printer could wait for an upgrade of the drivers... But I read about a lot of printers that are almost BRAND-NEW (just like this 580) and are not supported!

Maybe it's an idea to collect those complaints and to deliver them (in a printed form) to Epson's HQ...

I want my printer to be supported. Selling it could be an option, but it is stupid in my opinion. That's the same thing like Hewlett Packard, Canon or Lexmark would tell Windows customers that they have to by a new printer because they have no plans to support their 3 month old printer in Windows XP! ! ! ! !

If _WE_ Apple users buy this crap, it's our own fault that we do not have the same HW support Windows users have... I've worked as a 2nd line support agent and believe me: Windows users are almost always a pain in the A!@# while Apple users are more relaxed. This attitude does not realy help US Apple MacOS X users to get Epson to release those drivers for almost all their printers...

(Gee, this realy helps: I already feel better now :-). This posting are sort of therapeutical...)



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