How to select matte black ink on epson 3880 printer

#How to select matte black ink on epson 3880 printer drivers
#How to select matte black ink on epson 3880 printer driver
#How to select matte black ink on epson 3880 printer manual
#How to select matte black ink on epson 3880 printer software
#How to select matte black ink on epson 3880 printer Pc

You can change the default settings for the printer, which will cause all new print jobs to use those settings. Even though Bonjour is designed to accommodate IP address changes, if the printer is set up to acquire an IP address via DHCP, I would suggest considering a static IP address (remember that it must be in the same sub network as your Mac, unless your network contains a router will route between the addresses). In my own experience, the Epson printers are more consistently addressible if you use Bonjour than if you use straight TCP/IP.

#How to select matte black ink on epson 3880 printer drivers

Without knowing more about what has been specifically happening to you, my conjecture is that the problem is not the printer drivers themselves, but network addressibility of the Epson 3880. I can't think of any reason why a network failure should require you to re-install the printer drivers. How hard could that be? I doubt Epson is really trying to piss its customers off, but that does seem to be an unintended consequence of this printer's auto switching implementation.

#How to select matte black ink on epson 3880 printer software

You'd think Epson's software guys could add a small amount of code that gives a message saying 'Do you really want to switch inks?' along with an option to cancel. I have to wait that cycle out and then switch it back.

#How to select matte black ink on epson 3880 printer driver

The driver defaults to Premium Luster which in turn takes my 3880 off on a joy ride to switch from MK to PK black. In my case it stems from the driver's media setting not sticking for whatever reason, and it can occur even when I've invoked the 'use last settings' preset in the driver menu. In the six months that I've owned this printer, I've had at least a half dozen or more unintended ink switches. The 3880 raises the bar one notch for lost time and materials. One of my greatest sources of irritation in digital printing is printer dialogue box settings that don't stick after you've set them.

#How to select matte black ink on epson 3880 printer Pc

I'm glad I am on a stable Win7 PC these days!!! As I see it the OP has three possible solutions: 1) fix the network so that it doesn't fail 2) hardwire the printer into the Mac that he is working with on photo editing or 3) (and least expensive) print out a warning to check the software settings and tape it to his computer so he remembers to double check in case of a network failure. I presume that if the printer had to be deleted and reinstalled that one would lose these settings as LR would not recognize the newly installed printer (though I cannot be sure of this and don't want to test it on my machine). I know that LR preserves printer settings as presets when they are established. You are correct that the driver would reset the printer if the MK ink was pre-selected.

#How to select matte black ink on epson 3880 printer manual

The manual suggests doing the ink switch over via the control panel as I noted but if a fresh driver installation has to be done each time the network goes down (and this is a point I also don't understand as I have a general Epson printer on a home network and each PC has the driver information loaded so if the network did go down, one would not have to reinstall).

The basic problem is that the default in the driver software is the PK ink and one of the gloss papers (ultra premium luster but can't sure and I don't have LR open right now to check).

Is there any way to require user input/confirmation when the Epson 3880 switches from Matte to Photo-black (and back)? Quote from: KirbyKrieger on December 21, 2010, 07:36:55 pm Hi.

Easier, simpler solutions are of course welcome. After deleting a printer, this defaults to a Photo-black paper.) Aperture allows one to specify the print settings for a paper, but the paper settings are in the OS X dialog. Is there any way to put in something like an 'Are you sure you want to change from Matte to Photo-black?' warning? (I print from Aperture. I print using matte-black exclusively, but have used about 40% of a Photo-black cartridge (and wasted some expensive paper) just from mis-fires (the possibility that I am an idiot has occurred to me). This entails cussing and frustration, at which point I have twice now overlooked the change in the default ink specification and have for no reason sent what I intended to be a Matte-black job to the printer as Photo-black. My network keeps failing, and after each failure I have to delete and re-install the Epson printer (I'm on OS X).