Epson 2200 paper selections

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epsonchallenged
Mar 5, 2006
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With two Epson 2200s installed on two separate USB ports on WinXP, the paper selections in the drivers are different. One only has four choices: plain, EM, Velvet Fine Art and Watercolor. The other has three more: Premium Luster, Semigloss and Glossy. Both printers are Version
5.5. Why are the paper selections different and how to fix it? BTW, is
5.5 the newest driver version?

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Bill Hilton
Mar 5, 2006
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With two Epson 2200s installed … the paper selections in the drivers are different. One only has four choices: plain, EM, Velvet Fine Art and Watercolor. The other has three
more: Premium Luster, Semigloss and Glossy … Why are
the paper selections different

There are two flavors of black ink which share one interchangeable cart slot — the "matte black" ink gives you richer deeper blacks on fine art and matte paper but won’t dry properly on glossy paper, so that’s what you have installed in the printer with four choices, the driver won’t let you print this on glossy papers. The "photo black" ink will print on all types of papers and that’s what you have in the one listing seven paper choices … this black will work on matte paper but the blacks aren’t as black as with the ‘matte black’ ink.

… and how to fix it?

Just swap the photo black and matte black carts if you have one printer, it will purge the black automatically … with two printers you don’t have to even swap though, unless you want to print glossy/semi-gloss/luster on both.

Bill
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epsonchallenged
Mar 7, 2006
Thanks. Never thought about the ink cartridge is the culprit.

How can I find out exactly which driver version is installed?

Bill Hilton wrote:
writes …

With two Epson 2200s installed … the paper selections in the drivers are different. One only has four choices: plain, EM, Velvet Fine Art and Watercolor. The other has three
more: Premium Luster, Semigloss and Glossy … Why are
the paper selections different

There are two flavors of black ink which share one interchangeable cart slot — the "matte black" ink gives you richer deeper blacks on fine art and matte paper but won’t dry properly on glossy paper, so that’s what you have installed in the printer with four choices, the driver won’t let you print this on glossy papers. The "photo black" ink will print on all types of papers and that’s what you have in the one listing seven paper choices … this black will work on matte paper but the blacks aren’t as black as with the ‘matte black’ ink.
… and how to fix it?

Just swap the photo black and matte black carts if you have one printer, it will purge the black automatically … with two printers you don’t have to even swap though, unless you want to print glossy/semi-gloss/luster on both.

Bill
BH
Bill Hilton
Mar 7, 2006
Thanks. Never thought about the ink cartridge is the culprit.

You are not the first to be confused by this 🙂

How can I find out exactly which driver version is installed?

From Photoshop open the properties box and click on ‘maintenance’ and
in the lower left it shows the version # … or from the Control Panel in XP for the 2200 click on Printers – Properties – Version Information
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epsonchallenged
Mar 7, 2006
Bill Hilton wrote:
Thanks. Never thought about the ink cartridge is the culprit.

You are not the first to be confused by this 🙂

How can I find out exactly which driver version is installed?

From Photoshop open the properties box and click on ‘maintenance’ and
in the lower left it shows the version # … or from the Control Panel in XP for the 2200 click on Printers – Properties – Version Information

That’s what I did, and the Version is 5.5. But at the Epson site, there is a Version 5.5bS. When unzipping it, there is a message mentioning "driver Disk v5.5bS Driver v5.50". After installing it, the Version remains 5.5. There seems to be two version numbers and I can only see one. Hence the question.

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