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November 12th, 2007, 08:33 AM
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| Installing EPSON Color 3000 PPD on 10.5 Leopard Have just upgraded from Tiger to Leopard, but I can no longer access the print driver for our EPSON Stylus Color 3000 using the Epson StylusRIP. I can see the RIP server ok and it has installed as a printer. However neither of the two PPDs it finds (Gutenprint v5.1.3 and Gimp-Print v5.0.0-beta2) work...I think these are the native drivers rather than Postscript! I have a copy of the PPD from the 10.4 installation (EPSON StylusCOLOR3000 v3010.106) but cannot install it. Regardless of where I put it when I try and select it with Driver>Other, it is always greyed out even though all the other PPDs are ok. Have even tried compressing it into a .gz file but it is still greyed out. The only difference I can see is the file permissions, all the other .gz files have a Read&write permission for both "System" and "Admin", whereas my driver doesn't. However I can find no way to assign these users to my PPD file. This of course may be completely irrevelant. In fact if I copy my PPD to the desktop plus some of the other gz files from Library>Printers>PPDs>Contents>Resources, they lose the System and Admion users, yet I can still select those drivers but not mine! Any ideas much appreciated! Tennant  |
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November 14th, 2007, 10:01 AM
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| Have created a temporary workaround...have brought an old Mac back into service with Tiger 10.4 running on it that hapilly lets me install the correct PPD. I then share that printer on the network and all the 10.5 machines can print via the 10.4 mac to the rip server to the SC3000. Not exactly an elegant solution, and not very energy efficient having another Mac switched on all day just to spool the ocassional print file. If anyone has suggestions for the correct solution, they'll be much appreciated. Tennant |
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#3
November 14th, 2007, 12:43 PM
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| Have you called Epson? Not a free call, but they do know what they're talking about.
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November 22nd, 2007, 08:53 AM
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November 22nd, 2007, 10:51 AM
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| Despite both Epson and Apple's technical support saying that there is no solution under OS X 10.5, I have got it working! The problem was that the Mac version of the PPD file contains some illegal characters (as confirmed using the PPD checker at www.cups.org). The solution therefore was to use the Windows NT version of the PPD file from the EPSON StylusRip CD...Leopard happily accepts this and everything is now printing perfectly (when I saw perfectly, I mean the same as 10.4...there are still positioning issues with InDesign CS3, but that's another story!) Tennant |
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February 13th, 2008, 11:43 PM
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| okay, but how do you install the driver from a .exe file? I am having the same problem. So I figured I would give it a shot. I don't have the CD so I downloaded the NT version form Epson' web site. But how do I extract the PPD from a .exe file? |
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February 14th, 2008, 03:42 AM
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February 14th, 2008, 09:15 AM
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| Would you be so kind as to email me that text file? Otherwise, I am thinking of either reverting to Tiger or buying an old mac just to print from. I really don't have the money for that. Thanks. jfrazier33@mac.om |
