[MACEP] Epson Printer and OSX

[radams at lane.k12.or.us]

I haven't used it, but I noticed this article that came out in the TechTails
newsletter from Small Dog Computers (below).  GIMP is a UNIX method and this
week's Download Dispatch has "The GIMP" which is one of many free graphics
programs using the GIMP interface.

Richard Adams
Pleasant Hill School District



Printer Support in OS X
by Troy at smalldog.com

Several customers have upgraded to OS X 10.4 in the past couple of
weeks only to discover that their printers are no longer supported.
One gentleman had a Canon i70. It worked great in OS 10.2.8 but when
he bought a new computer he could not get his printer to work. He
went to Canon to look for a driver but there was none listed for the
Mac. I suggested that he take a look at the Apple site to see what
printers were supported and he did. He found this page, which
answered some of his questions:

http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/printing/

When he checked out the following article, which was supposed to have
links for the manufacturers' websites for printer support, it was a
little sparse. =)

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1118.html

In the end he was going to try to get it working by either calling
Apple and seeing what they had to say by or trying Gimp-Print.

The Gimp-Print driver is a print driver (or printer software)
provided in Mac OS X to support older printers. You should choose the
Gimp-Print driver only if there is no driver available for the
printer you're using.

We were able to find the Drivers page for OS X which has recently
been revamped (the entire OS X Download section has been updated and
is easier to use). Canon drivers is one of the top 10 downloads from
this page.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/



> We have an Epson Stylus Color 850n printer that isn't compatible with
> OSX.  I've read about work arounds to get them to print using GIMP.  I'm
> not familiar with this program but did look through the website.  Anyone
> out there have experience with it and can offer some tips on setting it
> up on iMacs running OSX 10.3.9?
>
> Michele McCracken
> Stephenson Elementary School
> Portland Public Schools
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