Epson Stylus Photo 750 driver ?

[Twobtold]

Hi --
Have the above printer connected to W2K machine via parallel port and also
connected to a XP machine via USB port.
On the W2K machine I'm able to print at 1440 dpi. On the XP machine I'm
only able to print 'fine' which is not as fine as the 1440 setting on the W2K
machine.
I have not been able to find a USB driver for the 750+XP on the Epson site,
am using the driver which comes with windows XP.
Is there any driver that I can use that will give me the 1440 dpi option
on XP?
TIA

 

[Gregg E.]

(e-mail address removed) (Twobtold) wrote in

Hi --
Have the above printer connected to W2K machine via parallel port
and also
connected to a XP machine via USB port.
On the W2K machine I'm able to print at 1440 dpi. On the XP
machine I'm
only able to print 'fine' which is not as fine as the 1440 setting on
the W2K machine.
I have not been able to find a USB driver for the 750+XP on the
Epson site,
am using the driver which comes with windows XP.
Is there any driver that I can use that will give me the 1440 dpi
option
on XP?
TIA

Printer manufacturers have continued in the "grand tradition" of
supplying Windows printer drivers only to Microsoft for versions
of Windows released after the printer is discontinued. Included
in this tradition is a reduction in supported features with each
new version of windows.

Their favorite things to "zap" are n-up printing, poster printing,
highest resolution settings, and for laser printers they like to
eliminate error diffusion for graphics so whatever you print in
"color" or anything that isn't text, looks like a bad newspaper
photo.

It's a not so subtle "push" to get you to buy new printers with
each new version of Windows. Sometimes the companies will even
cut features on drivers they provide. Xerox did that with their
line of inkjets with the Windows 2000 drivers. Fer instance the
DocuPrint M750 is supposed to be a 1200 DPI printer yet the highest
it can be set in Windows 2000 is 600DPI. Xerox's reply to complaints
was essentially "We no longer make or sell inkjet printers, we're
not going to fix the driver or the firmware. So nyah-nyah! Go away!"

Xerox never made any inkjet printers anyway. They bought the parts
from Sharp, designed new housings and had Sharp insert Xerox
in the firmware in place of Sharp. Oh, and the printhead reliability
is lousy, especially the color one. It likes to have one color
just quit printing.

Buy a Canon instead! I tried to get my mother to spend the tiny
little amount more for the Canon at Staples, but noooo, she had
to buy that @$@%#%@ Xerox M750.

 

[leon]

Hi --
Have the above printer connected to W2K machine via parallel port and also
connected to a XP machine via USB port.
On the W2K machine I'm able to print at 1440 dpi. On the XP machine I'm
only able to print 'fine' which is not as fine as the 1440 setting on the W2K
machine.
I have not been able to find a USB driver for the 750+XP on the Epson site,
am using the driver which comes with windows XP.
Is there any driver that I can use that will give me the 1440 dpi option
on XP?
TIA

You need to update driver via printer properties and use epson win 2000
driver, ignore the usual popups telling you that it is not signed etc. it
will work just fine as i have been using 750 with winxp in this manner.
Incidentally, just bought the epson r200 and what a difference, so quiet and
so much better quality at less than half the price i paid for 750, 750 now
relegated.

 

[Twobtold]

From: "leon" (e-mail address removed)

<[email protected]>

You need to update driver via printer properties and use epson win 2000
driver, ignore the usual popups telling you that it is not signed etc. it
will work just fine as i have been using 750 with winxp in this manner.
Incidentally, just bought the epson r200 and what a difference, so quiet and
so much better quality at less than half the price i paid for 750, 750 now
relegated.

Thanks for the info. I've been thinking about getting another photo printer.
But I was going to steer clear of Epson because of all the printhead problems.
Last clog took 3 days to clean.

 

[leon]

Thanks for the info. I've been thinking about getting another photo printer.
But I was going to steer clear of Epson because of all the printhead problems.
Last clog took 3 days to clean.

Never had that problem and i've used the 750 since it was first available,
always used epson inks and used it at least once a week,
power off when not in use.