Re: Apple/Epson driver failure.
Re: Apple/Epson driver failure.
- Subject: Re: Apple/Epson driver failure.
- From: edmund ronald <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:49:37 +0200
Most members of this list using Macs are now reduced to using various
workarounds. Some other members of this list will give you topic by
topic advice, but I would recommend that you regress one of your
machines to install disks, download Epson drivers and Photoshop
updates, and use it as a stable printing machine exclusively. This is
what I do - I have a machine which has profiling and printing
production software installed, and which I try not to tamper with.
If you can set up a working configuration you can then use CCC to
clone the boot partition to a spare $80 hard disk. If one day the
computer fails, you can go to the used market and just get another
machine of the same generation which can boot with the same disk.
Although Apple is to blame for creating this mess, the issues with
unstable software updates are a general problem with computer
companies (see the Prius debacle - does Toyota really want those
issues?) and fortunately in your case you can take the usual steps to
protect your system and data. Cloning a car's passengers is harder.
Edmund
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:12 PM, J. Craig Sweat <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am a working commercial photographer using a calibrated workflow
> (spectrophotometer monitor calibrations, custom output profiles). With a
> recent Mac OS 10.5.8 (main workstation) and 10.6.21 (laptop) security update
> installation, my profiles will no longer hook up to my files as I print. At
> least it looks that way. I am having this problem an Epson 7600 (photoblack
> pigment ink) and with an old 1270. (I also use a more current Epson 7800
> (matte black pigment ink) which I haven't tested yet). I get very dark
> contrasty, perhaps a "preserve color numbers" looking print output
> regardless of the profile applied. If I move the file to a OS 10.4 machine
> it all works fine, just as it always has. Epson is not likely to upgrade
> these drivers but this seems like an OS change that may have obsoleted the
> drivers somehow. I have researched online and duplicated the profiles to
> another folder, to no avail. Soft proofing assigning these same profiles
> shows the same flawed result. In querying Apple support, others have
> apparently had this problem but I have not discovered a reason much less a
> solution. I know they are old printers but they work beautifully for me and
> I would rather not take them to the landfill for more than practical
> reasons. Any Ideas?
>
> J. Craig Sweat
> 1026 S. Perry
> Spokane, WA 99202
> 509-534-8020
> jcsp.net
>
>
> 
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