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Epson inkjet not printing

I came across another photographer today with an Epson Stylus Photo R2400 that wouldn’t print from Leopard. I suspect that this problem could afflict any Epson printer installation. Continue reading

Epson printer driver problem: R2400

A client has bought a really grand Epson Stylus Photo R2400 for his top notch photography business. Putting aside my jealousy for a moment I tried to install the necessary driver and software from the CD.

But we find that:

1) The CD that came with his new printer is not just incompatible with Tiger/Leopard, it doesn’t work on Intel macs!

2) We only find this out on the… Continue reading

Leopard can't print to a shared printer

OS X Leopard still seems to have trouble finding printers that are shared on the network from macs running earlier versions of OS X.

Potentially you could waste an enormous amount of time getting this to work. But if you know that the printer should be found by the printer browser, especially if it was working before without Leopard, or other macs simply see the printer, try the following in Terminal:

cupsctl… Continue reading