Re: Apple/Epson driver failure.
Re: Apple/Epson driver failure.
- Subject: Re: Apple/Epson driver failure.
- From: Ray Maxwell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:25:23 -0700
Hi Craig,
You are a victim of Apple updating such that your old printer drivers no
longer work. Epson has no plan to update these drivers. In short,
there is no solution that I have been able to find.
I print with an Epson 4000. I share my image hard drive storage over
the network with my old Mac Pro Dual G4 500. I do all of my printing
through my old computer using CS3.
It is interesting to compare the support of two companies:
1. I paid thousands of dollars for my Epson 4000 and Epson will not
support current drivers for my printer.
2. I paid $50 for my copy of the Quad Tone RIP which I use for printing
Black and White work only. The author saw fit to give me a free update
to the RIP so that it works just fine with Snow Leopard.
From this you can conclude that small companies give good support and
care about their customers. Big companies are arrogant and don't give a
darn about their customers. They want to force you to buy a new
printer. Guest how many more printers I am going to buy from EPSON.
Ray Maxwell
Host of "Maxwell's House" on the TWIT.TV network
J. Craig Sweat 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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