Struggling with new Epson allinone

[Alex]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Leo Noordhuizen
<leo.noordhuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Recentluy I bought a Epson Stylus Office BX525WD All-in-One printer/scanner
> as a replacement of my separate printer (Canon) and scanner (HP).
> I chose Epson because I had read comments that the support for Epson is
> better as that fro Canon printers. The Canon worked 'ok' but under Linux
> lacked a number of features available in the printer.
> Sadly the struggle seems not to be over.
> Printerdriver software was automatically loaded and seemed to be great;
> software to use the scanner I had to grab in 3 parts from the Epson website,
> guessing what software I would need, but at last it works.
> The problem however is that the printer seems to insist on printing EVERY
> simple print in the highest resolution, resulting in slow speed and wasted
> precious ink.
> On top of that the duplex function to print double-sided (one of my
> requirements) doesnt work either. (To be expected if the damn printer thinsk
> its printing a photo)
> I look forward hearing any suggestions.
> Thanks in advance ,
> Leo Noordhuizen - Eindhoven

As far as I know (I may be incorrect), the highest-quality setting on
most printers uses no more ink than Normal, it just prints much
slower.