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Epson printers & Mac OS X
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Join Date: Dec 1999
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Iowa City
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I just spent 90 minutes trying to figure out why an Epson COLOR 900 stopped printing from a G4 iMac running OS X 10.1.
I think the problem is that this machine needs to print from Classic and OS X. I have two different drivers installed for the same printer, one under Classic and one within OS X. Once you print from Classic, you have to go into the PrintMonitor, delete the printer, then add it again before you can go back and print from OS X.
There's got to be a better way. Am I doing something wrong?
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I keep the Bible in a pool of blood so that none of its words can affect me.
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion - Steven Weinberg.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: In a maze of twisty tunnels all alike
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One thing worth noting is that the order that you install Epson printer specific drivers on OS X is important.
I have a 900N (ethernet support) and a 1290. I installed the 900N driver and used the printer with no problems at all. I installed the 1290 driver and could print to the 1290. When I tried to print to the 900N the print center couldn't find it and all sorts of applications had problems with it. I reinstalled the 900N software and can now print to either printer.
It would appear that the 1290 software overwrote some of the stuff that the 900N driver needs to function 
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: London, UK
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I visited the epson url - no 1290 driver although someone else mentioned that they installed one.
Is it somewhere else or will the 1270 or 1280 drivers work for a 1290 printer?
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Sacramento, CA
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FWIW....
I find that when I switch from OS 9 to OS X, (or vice versa), I have to run the "Print Center" application (OS X) and start a que from that application.
The switching in operating systems seems to make the printer stop. Print Center will fix it. Kind of a pain, but it works.
On my laptop with OSX only ..... never any problems printing :-)
*go into the Applications/Utilities/Print Center
Rick
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion - Steven Weinberg.
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