Damn Printers
I have not had a good relationship with color printers. Kinkos color printers mock me as they charge me what should be my mortgage payment for colors that don't match any semblance of the colors that I see on my screen. Every color printer I have ever personally owned has teased me with a handful of amazing prints only to print colors that they must invent in their digital little minds should I neglect the thing for a few weeks.
And now, NOW, the brand spanking new printer that I bought last year if ever I wanted to sell small runs of prints has decided not to talk to Photoshop. Oh, it'll talk to all the other applications including Preview, Safari, Word, Illustrator, Firefox, BBEdit. Hell, I'm sure if I knew how, I could print from a little terminal window. But Photoshop? The only program that I truly NEED to do anything? No, my printer will not talk with Photoshop.
For the most part, I am happy with my machine. It helps me make pretty pictures. But lately, it's been acting funny. It won't wake up after I make it sleep. If I'm running Photoshop, disk space magically disappears then reappears once I close it. If I keep a web browser open too much, it'll slow down everything. The pressure sensitivity will suddenly turn itself off in the middle of painting a background. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
Printers? Printers can go screw. No matter what I do, eventually, the printer will decide that it's better than me and make me grovel for it to print something that remotely resembles actual colors that my eyes can recognize. ARGH!
And now, NOW, the brand spanking new printer that I bought last year if ever I wanted to sell small runs of prints has decided not to talk to Photoshop. Oh, it'll talk to all the other applications including Preview, Safari, Word, Illustrator, Firefox, BBEdit. Hell, I'm sure if I knew how, I could print from a little terminal window. But Photoshop? The only program that I truly NEED to do anything? No, my printer will not talk with Photoshop.
For the most part, I am happy with my machine. It helps me make pretty pictures. But lately, it's been acting funny. It won't wake up after I make it sleep. If I'm running Photoshop, disk space magically disappears then reappears once I close it. If I keep a web browser open too much, it'll slow down everything. The pressure sensitivity will suddenly turn itself off in the middle of painting a background. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
Printers? Printers can go screw. No matter what I do, eventually, the printer will decide that it's better than me and make me grovel for it to print something that remotely resembles actual colors that my eyes can recognize. ARGH!