First of all, the installation is incredibly simple. Just put the disk in and run the installer and away you go. And if you ever do need help while using EnPrint there is little question marks on each of the windows to pop up online Amiga Guide help files. Your going to need :
The first time I had ever plugged my Stylus II into my Amiga, I was rather disappointed. Most of the printer drivers for the Amiga are limited to 4096 colors, so the Epson's print quality was drastically reduced. Not only that but it printed very slow, and took upwards of 20 minutes just to print a picture. Just recently the owner of Comspec (Amiga dealer in Ontario) gave me a copy of EnPrint to try out, he said he had gotten rave reviews from Amiga users about it, so I figured it was worth a try. It solved both of my complaint's, not only does it use Epson's compression mode 2 (special data compression so less data is sent to the printer, in turn speeding it up quite a bit), it even prints out true color 24-bit images even if your software doesn't support 24-bit printing. It's got a larger selection of dithering options than even the Windows version (not a Windows version of EnPrint, but the actual Epson driver), and built in calibration settings for the best print outs. You can use spooling, for printing off more than one thing at once, but I wouldn't recommend it. The spooling feature needs 20 megs of free disk space, and it didn't seem to work on my A4000T. There's loads of options with this software, and just because there is so many settings don't think that it's confusing or impossible to set up. When you first install the software it's already set up to print off at the best quality, and to turn down quality simply use 360x360 or 180x180 DPI mode. I should also mention that there is 7 configuration slots for each printer, which means if you print out something in 'Final Writer' for example, using density setting 5, you're actually using EnPrint's slot 5. "So what's so special about that" you ask? It makes life a little easier, you could have 7 different 720x720 modes each with a special dithering option for different effect. Or have different color settings, or any combination of calibration settings instead of the usual progressive density modes. If you don't understand that, you will once you are using EnPrint.
What all of this means is that EnPrint v2.1 is the perfect choice for an Epson Stylus printer. You'll be so happy at the quality of the software, and the quality of your print outs you'll stay up all night printing off every picture on your harddrive (Well, maybe).
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