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OS9.1 & printer trouble
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Jan 27, 2001, 05:06 PM
 
Can anyone help? Since I installed 9.1 onto my graphite iMac 400, the printer, an Epson 760, will not print. When I go to print something the window comes up, I click print, the window says now spooling document.......and then nothing happens. I checked the epson website to see if there was a new driver for 9.1 but there doesn't seem to be. Anybody got any ideas?
     
WDL
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Jan 27, 2001, 05:21 PM
 
There was something on the MacFixit home page in the last two days to the effect that
Epson does not support 9.1. Not comment as to whether they're going to.

WDL
     
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Jan 27, 2001, 06:00 PM
 
Works fine on my 9.1
Have you got your printer selected in Chooser? It may have come unselected...
Reset its settings and stuff.
BTW, I'm using background printing... are you?
Mine is the 740 though, not 760...

Cipher13
     
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Jan 29, 2001, 07:25 AM
 
Just a thought but it might be worthwhile re-selecting the folder that the Epson software uses to spool files to.

This is how I did it on one of our systems:
From finder, chose Print Desktop
Click on the Tools icon (the spanner/driver just along from the print button)
Click configuration
About half way down there should be a section called Temporary Spool Folder - click select
On our systems, the path is Mac HD\System Folder\Extensions\Epson Folder\Spool Folder5
There should be a button that says something like 'Select spool folder' - click it the OK all the way back out to the original print box.

I had a problem with an Epson that stopped printing, not quite the same as yours (hadn't been updated to 9.1) but this fixed it.

HTH
Steve

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Jan 29, 2001, 07:59 AM
 
Same as Cipher, my Epson 740 works fine with MacOS 9.1. I use to switch on the printer after the computer's booting AND NOT before. Thus even when upgrading from my current OS 9.04 (not a clean one).

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