Struggling with new Epson allinone

Tony Pursell ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
Thu Jun 23 23:30:23 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 18:01 -0500, Alex wrote:
> 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.
> 

Head over to this page

http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-BX525WD_Series

to see if you have the best driver.







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