Epson Stylus Pro 7900 User Report page 9

Printer Drivers and MyEpson.com
The Drivers found on the x900 are very similar to those for the x880 printers. One nice change is that the
driver will now intelligently sync with Photoshop CS3/CS4. If color management is set to "Photoshop Manages
Colors" in Photoshop the driver will automatically disable printer color management, avoiding color manage-
lot of promise. The service allows for basic tasks such as checking the ink levels of a remote printer as well as
tracking jobs and print costs.
ment conflicts. The Mac driver now also supports 16
bit input when printing from OS X 10.5. This option
does give the driver more data from which to create
the screening; however, any real world advantage is
likely to be quite minimal.
From the printer utility you can also manually initiate
nozzle checks, head cleaning and alignment. A new
option now also allows users to create, manage, and
sync custom paper types with the printer.
The Epson driver is also where the Advance Black
and White mode is controlled. Because the Epson
black is not perceptually neutral it must be combined
with other inks to produce a neutral tone black and
white. The advance Black and White mode com-
bines special screening and a carefully controlled
mix of color inks to produce very good looking black
and white prints. There is also the option of custom
toning the prints to give them a warm or cool tone.
My EpsonPrinter.com (coming soon)
MyEpsonPrinter.com is a web-based service for
managing Epson printers. We've had a chance to
test the beta of this service and it looks like it holds a
While some of the functionality may be overkill for
small businesses with a single printer, it provides
administrators a number of tools to track and manage
a fleet of widely distributed printers across an entire
organization. Since the service is hosted web based,
there is some question about how it will work with cor-
porate intranets with tight security policies. MyEpson-
printer.com is under free public beta until March 2009.
It supports both the x880 and x900 series.