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General printer support, where are my advanced options?
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TacoBallZ
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Nov 11, 2007, 11:53 PM
 
I'm running a Mac mini 1.42Ghz G4, 512MB ram, and OSX 10.4.10
My printer is a EPSON Stylus Photo R200.

OSX had a basic driver for this printer, and I could have sworn I downloaded the lastest driver from EPSON, but my problem is, everytime I print, the printer seems to print in fast "normal" mode.
All my prints are in crap quality, and I can't find anywhere to change the quality settings
(system prefs > print&fax > printing > Stylus Photo R200 driver 2.02)
Maybe I'm missing something, I'm new to printing on a Mac, is this more an OSX thing? or the Printer Drivers themselves?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
TacoBallZ  (op)
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Nov 12, 2007, 01:11 AM
 
Originally Posted by TacoBallZ View Post
I'm running a Mac mini 1.42Ghz G4, 512MB ram, and OSX 10.4.10
My printer is a EPSON Stylus Photo R200.

OSX had a basic driver for this printer, and I could have sworn I downloaded the lastest driver from EPSON, but my problem is, everytime I print, the printer seems to print in fast "normal" mode.
All my prints are in crap quality, and I can't find anywhere to change the quality settings
(system prefs > print&fax > printing > Stylus Photo R200 driver 2.02)
Maybe I'm missing something, I'm new to printing on a Mac, is this more an OSX thing? or the Printer Drivers themselves?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
GAH! Ok, nevermind, I found it. I downloaded the Guten Print drivers and then realized it was the button below Printer Presets on the print dialogue box. I didn't realize that there was a printer features option under the "copies and pages" pulldown list. It's still very confusing but anyways... Knowing is half the Battle!
     
   
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