Quote Originally Posted by j.drake
This isn't surprising to me. Brother took its sweet time releasing WinXP drivers, and gave very patchy support to the idea of adapting Win2K drivers for XP
Brother wasn't the only one, if that is any comfort to you. What is bugging me is that they can get away with this attitude.

"We said it would work. You bought the device. If it doesn't work it's your problem.". "OK, to stop the flood of emails and phone-calls that disturb our lunch we have a fix. Our parrot just finished translating it from Japanese into English. Here it is. Now it is your problem again." "And oh do you want to recieve updates on future product-releases? Have a nice day"

Slightly related: a Dutch consumer-organisation did a test of several inkjet-printers recently. All inkjets display a warning if the cartridge is nearly empty. On most printers you can ignore that message and print a few more pages. Not on Epson printers. The techies discovered a chip that simply disables printing after that warning. They then bypassed that chip and discovered that you could get another 10 to 15 percent more pages from a cartridge.

An Espson spokesperson said it was not true. A day later they said it was to protect the printnozzels. Another day later they issued a statement that they were talking with the consumer-organisation and were "declining any further comment'

If your Dutch is up to par, let me know and I'll post the link. The testreport is not available in English.

Regards,

- - Edwin