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Z3100 and OS X Lion
« on: July 21, 2011, 11:45:47 am »

Admittedly I'm a keen but cautious adopter. Before I take the plunge on upgrading I'd wanted to ask if any Z3100 users have upgraded and worked with the latest edition of OS X?

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Re: Z3100 and OS X Lion
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2011, 05:05:41 pm »

I'm interested in the Z3100 drivers, as well as APS.  Given the track record of both HP and X-Rite with their software updates, I'm going to be rather surprised if APS works with Lion.
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Re: Z3100 and OS X Lion
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2011, 08:27:07 pm »

I Just installed Lion on a partition and printed from Photoshop CS4 using the same driver as I had installed before (4.3) with no problems.

The first time I printed I got an error that I had to first install a printer, but I've seen this before and just printed again and it worked exactly like under Snow Leopard. I compared it against a print I'd made under snow leopard and the colors seemed to match perfectly.

I had to update my paper preset list from the HP utility before my presets would show, but I've had to do this occasionally before as well.

I haven't tried HP APS yet, but so far so good with printing, at least from CS4.

I just noticed that the printer status window seems to update throughout the entire print. in Snow Leopard it seemed to stop about 12% and never show any more. It just updated four or five times through the entire print.
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Re: Z3100 and OS X Lion
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2011, 07:11:42 am »

Thanks guys, this and in the comments in other threads about the printing pipeline most being optimised in the 10.5/10.6 upgrades makes me happier with the potential upgrade. Photoshop cs5 seems stable enough too so fingers crossed things will be okay.
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Re: Z3100 and OS X Lion
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2011, 11:26:07 am »

I haven't tried HP APS yet, but so far so good with printing, at least from CS4.

Just a warning that the HP-APS registration is a PowerPC application, so if you are reinstalling or clean installing 10.7 you will NOT be able to move out of the demo mode.

The solution to this is to back up your registration key and put it into your Lion installation.

The file registration.key is located in your /Library/Preferences/HP-APS

Just tried a monitor calibration and it seems to work fine.
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Re: Z3100 and OS X Lion
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2011, 12:23:38 pm »

So the APS application is fine, but X-Rite was too lazy to update five year old code when they wrote the registration portion, so it requires Rosetta?  Lame, but I guess better than finding out that the whole thing is DOA.  If I understand you correctly, the key itself is software agnostic and can be copied, and it is only the part that generates the key that doesn't work, right?  I remember the key registration being flakey from the beginning, so no surprise.
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Re: Z3100 and OS X Lion
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2011, 03:27:54 pm »

So the APS application is fine, but X-Rite was too lazy to update five year old code when they wrote the registration portion, so it requires Rosetta?  Lame, but I guess better than finding out that the whole thing is DOA.  If I understand you correctly, the key itself is software agnostic and can be copied, and it is only the part that generates the key that doesn't work, right?  I remember the key registration being flakey from the beginning, so no surprise.

Yes, the application is universal, but the registration code looks like it is PowerPC only. So if the application needs to be registered it will fail under 10.7.

The only way to get around it is to have a previously generated registration.key file, which is linked to the serial number of the eye one device. Otherwise the application seems to run fine.
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Re: Z3100 and OS X Lion
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2011, 03:22:30 pm »

I've been trying to get my printer to work in Lion, it goes through the process, and everything looks like a go, but then nothing prints out, and lcd panel on the printer, just keeps spooling, it gets to about 11% and than just sits there.
Now a few things of interest. Luckily or not, I just got a new Macpro a few days prior to release of Lion. So since I installed everything clean on the new machine, I decided to update to Lion, and give it a go. Until last night, my first try at printing, I had no issues.

So if anyone has advice let me know, I'm going to use my time Machine backup, and install 10.6 back to one of the drives that is empty, and see if it will print from there.
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Re: Z3100 and OS X Lion
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2011, 10:28:32 pm »

I just wanted to update everyone, I changed my connection from USB, to ethernet, just on a whim, and everything is working perfectly now, in LION. Not sure what that changed, but I'm going with it.
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Re: Z3100 and OS X Lion
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2011, 03:03:49 am »

I would be cautious too, about the saving of profiles from APS. The ownership of files has changed in Lion on the home folder so it may be a problem for some to save out files there without changing ownership>
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Re: Z3100 and OS X Lion
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2011, 02:47:16 am »

Curiously enough, APS was not working for me after updating from 10.66 many months ago when I tried to profile the printer, but is now working perfectly with Lion.  I did move to a new computer, which may have made the biggest difference, but I upgraded by migrating from a Time Machine disk.  The registration key transferred fine, but there were a couple of files that for some reason did not migrate (HPServicesInterface and HPPml).  The lack of these files caused crashes, but I read through the crash report and diagnosed what I needed to manually transfer from Time Machine, and now all is well.

I have noticed that my custom ICC profiles for both printer and monitors are now being placed in my user>Library>Colorsync folder instead of the root Library>Colorsync folder, but Photoshop CS5 and the rest of the system is able to see them all the same, so there doesn't seem to be a downside.
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