QTR-Quadtone RIP

I had purchased the Quad Tone rip on line and installed the driver for
my epson 2200. The printer manual tells me to delete the driver and
reinstall when changing to or or from matte black ink. I deleted the
quad tone driver in the printer utility and now can't find it anywhere
on my computer to reinstall. Do I have to purchase it all over again?

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "rgiase" <rgiase@...> wrote:
>
> I had purchased the Quad Tone rip on line and installed the driver for
> my epson 2200. The printer manual tells me to delete the driver and
> reinstall when changing to or or from matte black ink. I deleted the
> quad tone driver in the printer utility and now can't find it anywhere
> on my computer to reinstall. Do I have to purchase it all over again?

You don't delete the quadtone driver, you delete the Epson 2200
driver. This has nothing to do with QTR, it's just the way Macs work.
But there is a slightly easier variation on this method.

The easier way is to load a photo black cart, turn the printer off,
wait a few seconds, turn it on, and install an Epson 2200, naming it
something like "2200PK".

Now load a matte black cart into your printer, turn it off, wait a few
seconds, and install another Epson 2200, naming it something like
"2200MK".

Do not delete anything, the goal is to have two printers installed
(even though they're actually the same printer). You just print to
2200PK whenever you have a photo black cart loaded, and to 2200MK
whenever you have a matte black cart loaded.

(yup, because the Mac is the friendliest computer in the whole warm
and fuzzy world).

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, joachim oppenheimer <joachim2@...>
wrote:
>
> I am no expert, but I believe that you misunderstood, but it's
remedial. For
> the Epson 2200, I believe the directions call for replacing the
black ink
> cartridge from photo black to matte black ink. There should be no
need to
> remove the driver. If that's what you did, and you do not have QTR
on your
> computer any longer, download it and you're back in business. There
should
> be no additional charge to you. I'm not much above Newbe status, but I
> believe my advice is correct. Joachim

Joachim, despite your "newb" status, it sounds like you're using some
sort of a computer, probably a PC running running Windows. Computers
tend to behave in a very logical and predictable manner. If you change
an ink cartridge, the printer driver is expected to understand this.
If you want to eject a CD or DVD, you press a button labeled "eject",
etc...

rgiase doesn't have an actual "computer", he has something called a
"Mac". That's sort of a caricature of a computer. I'm sure you've seen
Dali's painting "Persistence of Memory", with the watches melting. A
Mac is sort of like that. When you change inks on a 2200 on a Mac, the
printer driver doesn't understand that a change has been made, so you
have to delete the printer driver that you installed with the old type
of ink, and install a new one to understand the new type of ink.

There's a way around this, by installing the printer twice, that I
describer to rgiase. It's easier, but it makes even less sense than
dumping CDs in the garbage can or installing new printer drivers
whenever you change ink types.