Epson Print Drivers

[iGuy]

Since upgrading to Panter, my Epson 777i printer will not work.  It says driver is not installed.  I went to Epson's website and it states the 777i drivers are on Apple's OS X disk.  Which OS X disk I don't know.  Is there a driver available that will make my printer work with Panther?

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support...s¬eoid=17764

Ryan

[Bruce_F]

Ryan,

Your best bet is to get Gimp-Print.

I posted the link to Source Forge, but I think that Apple has it listed in its software download section.

[pendragon]

iGuy, I think, though am uncertain, that the print drivers are on Disk 3. But I do not know if you can access and download them directly or that you must do a custom install. In either case that should be fairly easy. Of course when someone else is doing the work, all things are fairly easy.

Harv

[iGuy]

Thanks to both of you for your advice.  I first tried Harv's advice and popped in Panther's Disk three and there it was.  Epson's print drivers.  Installed, logged out and back in.  Works like it should.  

Thanks for helping me get back on track.  

Ryan

[marie]

Okay guys, reading this post presents and interesting question to me. When I received my PB I immediately upgraded to Panther, however, it never asked me for disk three. Was is suppost to? Mind you I am somewhat of a mac "greenhorn" but I just wondered if I missed something? Go easy on me...LOL
Thanks!

[pendragon]

Marie, As a guess...

When you upgraded, you did an Easy Install rather than an Archive & Install. Thus, the installer only upgraded things you needed for Panther. Since printer drivers (for Panther) were not needed (you already had them), Disk 3 was not called upon.

Aside from that, I haven't a clue.

Harv

[marie]

Thanks I was a bit afraid I may have done something incorrectly....thought I better swallow the pride and ask.....

[FLASH1296]

Here is the solution for your problem:

the drivers are on CD #3     Just use the nifty shareware appl'   PACIFIST      http://www.charlessoft.com/     to  extract and install just that component

[swhitset]

Flash...

The above posts show that he already installed them from disc 3.  Also,  you don't need Pacifist because all of the drivers are accessible without it.

[krissel]

Just thought I'd put in a plug for GIMP-PRINT.

Now that I'm on cable I was able to download the update to X.2.8 for my PB.
Been playing with it for a couple days now and wanted to try printing from X to my Epson 1520 which has no X drivers.

Downloaded Gimp-Print this aft, installed and voilá, I can now print directly to my wide format printer via USB/Parallel cable. Pretty cool. Only problem was after several print jobs it kept losing the connection so I had to unplug/replug the USB cable but that's OK with me. Now I know when I do finally get a new G5 someday I can still use my big printer.