[jyl]

So, I'm a big Mac fan, but one area I've always thought Mac OS is terrible at is . . . printing.

In my experience, there is frequently not the right driver for your printer, so you have to hunt around for some GIMP driver or whatever. (Had this on an Epson.)

If the printer has a special feature, like an auxiliary tray for photo print paper, it often doesn't work for Macs. (Had this on some H-P PhotoSmarts.)

I'm particularly complaining about iPhoto, which seems remarkably dumb when it comes to printing photos. You choose all the settings for 4x6 and it comes out as a little image filling one corner of the 4x6. It seems like the settings are additive, iPhoto scales the image down from full sheet to 4x6, then the Print app scales it down again from full to 4x6, and the result is a teeny little image. To get it to work, I have to pretend I'm printing a full 8x11 sheet in some settings, and correctly specify 4x6 in others. The rest of the OS and the iPhoto app has a 120 IQ, but in this respect they seem retarded.

Is this just my mistaken impression (maybe I'm the retard), or do other Mac users agree that printing isn't up to the intuitive, seamless, ease of the Mac experience?

P.S. Still on Tiger here.