Peter, the problem of the driver not being sticky, from experience with the Epson 4800 on a friend's Mac, may well be an OSX issue, not an Epson driver issue; because, on PCs using Windows the driver settings are sticky. Since the Epson driver is similar between all these printers, I would suspect the same applies to the combination of 3800 and Mac. It was hoped that Epson and Apple would cohere on resolving this problem long ago, but perhaps this hasn't happened.