Re: [WinMac] Re: Printing from Windows to AppleShare? - LPR


Romeyn Prescott(prescor[at]potsdam.edu)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:33:15 -0500


>> Be careful with the LPR software in NT: I had a bad experience with it
>>this week printing to an Epson Color Stylus 3000 printer via ethernet. I
>>even tried a no-no: "Nailing" the IP address of the printer NIC in a LAN
>>served with a DHCP server. This was disappointing for me: An NT4/SP4
>>service failing to even partially work.
>>
>> [See, I'm an "equal opportunity" protagonist... I'll blast M$ as
>>well as
>>Apple, when either is deserving!]
>
>I have a feeling that blasting M$ is inappropriate in this situation.
>Blast Epson who can't seem to make software that works with a printer or
>a printer that works with any software.
>
>This series of printers is fairly notorious for difficult printing. I
>understand the PC software is usually worse than the Mac, but I have used
>the Mac and it is pretty bad. I have a Stylus 600, but the troubles go
>all the way through the series.
>

We recently got a Color 3000. It took me over an hour on the phone with
Epson Tech Support to resolve the problem. In the end, *I* figured it our
and had to explain it to THEM!!! It would have been so much easier if they
had a REAL display instead of cryptic blinking LEDs...

...ROMeyn

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