Howard:
Don't have a Mac but have seen this problem on my Windows machine.
The Windows solution is to uninstall the printer, install the
drivers, and then install the printer and tell the OS that the new
printer it finds belongs to the new drivers just installed.
The problem arises when the printer in not in the OS's inventory of
printers it knows about and it forces an assumption onto the user. I
think the Epson 1290 / 1280 is an older printer and there may not be
a printer driver available from Epson that exactly fits your version
of the OS. In the Windows world you'd need a driver for that printer
written for the Windows 2000 OS which Epson claims is close enough to
work with Windows XP.
Don't know in the Mac world what the equivalent steps are.
Cheers,
James
At 06:32 PM 9/28/2007 +0100, you wrote:
Has ANY member of this forum set up this arrangement?
I have been "given" an i-MAC with OS 10.4 to teach Photoshop CS3
I have tried to install an Epson 1290 printer.
The OS recognised the printer and set up a BASIC printer driver.
However...
there appears NO way in which I can load any sort of advanced driver
so that I can select color controls off, glossy paper, dpi etc.
When I click on page setup - printer setup in the CS3 print routine,
all I can do is select the paper size....
I've got printer drivers from Epson UK but they don't do anything else either.
The US site allowed me to download drivers for the 1280 which is
identical but I bet they won't talk to each other!
So I thought, let's try a Canon i6500. Downloaded the MAC drivers etc.
Same problem. I only get the very basic stuff. I cannot select
paper, resolutio, set colour controls to neutral etc.
Any thoughts out these on the forum?
Both printers work perfectly in Windows XP....
Howard
James Schenken
