Luminous Landscape Forum

Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: tkimages on December 05, 2010, 03:02:03 pm

Title: Epson 2880 with iMac not working.
Post by: tkimages on December 05, 2010, 03:02:03 pm

Hi All,

Sorry to bother you all but I've just bought an iMac and moved over from PC.  All seems to be going well but I can't get the printer dialogue box for the Epson 2880 when trying to print through CS4.  The CS4 dialogue box appears but when I choose page set up I get a generic dialogue box that only allows me to choose paper size!  Internet research suggests that this a common problem and I should not use the Apple drivers, I should use the specific Epson Snow Leopard driver.  I have uninstalled the Apple drivers (after removing the printer) and installed the Epson drivers but when I try to add the printer it wants to install new drivers.  If I say no, it will not let me add the printer!  Catch 22.

How can I add the printer without installing the Apple drivers?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Title: Re: Epson 2880 with iMac not working.
Post by: tkimages on December 06, 2010, 06:14:30 pm

Problem sorted.  Apparently in OSX 10.6.5 one has to 'print' then you get access to the dialogue box to choose paper type, colour settings etc.  Quite unlike Windows.