> Not about being happy or otherwise. Just telling, in too much detail, I
> suppose, why your unpleasant experience with an application specific
> plug-in for an expensive photo printer may not be relevant to my
> purchasing decision for a $90, general purpose inkjet, which needs only
> an OS level driver. If I were looking to replace the Epson R1800, your
> words would weigh a lot more with me.
Well, OK>
> If it is a plug-in for PS, have you tried copying it to the appropriate
> folder for the later PS version and seeing if it works? PS just looks
> into the add-on/plug-in folders when it starts and loads what it finds
> there. I don't recall anything about plug-in incompatibilities in
> general from CS2 to CS4. Certainly I'm using some from before that, at
> least as old as PS7, in CS4 without trouble. When I install a new
> version of PS, I copy all the old plug-ins and such into the new
> folders. None have failed so far.
Doesn't work.>
> Might it simply be that the HP installer doesn't recognize the later PS
> names, so doesn't think it can put the plug-in in the correct place, and
> gives up?
Don't know
> Were I in your shoes, and the above doesn't work, I'd try color
> profiling my printer and papers and using that approach to matching
> prints to screen. That's probably what the HP plug-in did anyway, in
> effect, apply profiles they did in their labs. There are probably
> profiles out on the HP site or elsewhere on the web for the 9180 and
> papers commonly used with it.
Yup, that's what I do, but at greater effort and expense>
> MS dropped the application launch toobar that came with Office '97
> several versions ago that I first used in Win 95 or 98. I'm still using
> it on Win7, even though MS support would say it isn't supported or
> compatible. I can't drag and drop on the toolbar anymore, but can drag
> and drop into the correct sub-directory.
>
>> Perhaps you own stock in HP?
>>
>
> Nah. If the best match of price, operating cost and desired features
> were a printer from a different maker, that's what I would buy.
>
OK!
Bill Pearce
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