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barney ntd · Jul 15, 2002, 02:34 PM

Official driver available from Epson: I'm downloading it now. YES!

Barney.

mpmchugh · Jul 15, 2002, 03:26 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by barney ntd:
Official driver available from Epson: I'm downloading it now. YES!<hr /></blockquote>Do you have a URL? I don't see it anywhere on Epson's site. On their Mac OS X page, it's still listed as a 3rd Quarter 2002 ETA...

Thanks,

-mpm

barney ntd · Jul 15, 2002, 05:07 PM

I got it from the Epson UK site: go to
<a href="http://www.epson.co.uk/cgi-bin/epson-uk/driveruk.pl" target="_blank">http://www.epson.co.uk/cgi-bin/epson-uk/driveruk.pl</a>
and select it from the menu!

Barney

mpmchugh · Jul 15, 2002, 07:16 PM

Thanks!

-mpm

The Jackalope · Jul 16, 2002, 12:14 AM

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! !

I NO LONGER HAVE A BOAT ANCHOR! I NO LONGER HAVE A BOAT ANCHOR!! GOOOOOOOOD BYE OS9!!!!!!

pirloui · Jul 16, 2002, 11:12 AM

It works!!!
And that's -so- cool :-)

::maroma:: · Jul 16, 2002, 01:10 PM

WOW! I never thought this day would come! I'm at work, so I'm not sure if it even works for me yet, but just having it posted is amazing to me! I had all but written off my 1200 as a novelty of Classic days, but no more!

Wee!!

pcp_ip · Jul 16, 2002, 03:25 PM

god bless you for pointing this out. finally I can print again!

Richyfp · Jul 16, 2002, 05:15 PM

Oh my god, oh my god!!!! :Throws small party for self and SC 1200:

This is great, incredible, fantastic news! And I just bought a shiny new digital camera!!

The question remains... will it work with Jaguar?

mrchin · Jul 16, 2002, 09:03 PM

Hallelujah! I downoaded it last night. And it works. Goodbye 1440 dpi for even the quickest test print. Now I just need some more ink. I'm low.

neps · Jul 16, 2002, 09:17 PM

saaaaaweeeeeet! works as it should and its beeeeeeeeeaaaaaaautiful.

[email protected] · Jul 17, 2002, 12:15 AM

WOW!

i just bought an ethernet-based laserwiter with 420,000 prints on it for x printing (weeks ago), and now and i can go ahead and plug the 1200 back in and do color! whoopie!

as soon as the dvd finishes burning, and the install finishes optimizing, i'm giving it a whirl (at least the laserwriter is cheaper to run and does very fast black and white prints over the network).

[edit - rtypos]

[ 07-17-2002, 12:32 AM: Message edited by: [email protected] ]

[email protected] · Jul 17, 2002, 02:09 AM

OK, it has finally sunk in - this is the biggest thing that has happened for me in os x fulfillment of overly expensive printing-like oversize paper-taking product support - i can print all sizes and colors now without any corporate executive ever saying they were supporting it or not or and then i get to use it.

like they finally support my $500 printer.

MacAttack · Jul 17, 2002, 02:22 AM

Now the next step is for Epson to update their drivers to support borderless printing. I bought an Epson Stylus Photo 780 a few months back, and it works fairly well except for the fact that their OS X driver does not have the same functionality as their OS 9 driver.

Most notably, in OS X it is currently not possible to print "border-free" photos, one of the main reasons I bought the printer to supplement my laser printer. I have to print via Classic to print borderless photos...major inconvenience.

Of course, Epson blames Apple and says that the OS doesn't support that, but I don't know, I think that's a crock. Hopefully Jaguar with CUPS will fix all that.

Anyone with some insight? Will Epson release updated drivers to correct these current deficiencies?

neps · Aug 7, 2002, 11:28 PM

has anyone who installed the UK driver installed the American one? It was just release a couple of days ago, and I was wondering the best method for installing the American version. Also have you noticed any differences, positive or negative between the two.