[MACEP] Epson Printer and OSX

[Mary Hochberg]

That issue had several other very useful tips. I subscribe to both 
Tech Tails and Kibbles & Bytes from Small Dog and find them very 
useful. Thanks again for recommending them, Richard!


>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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