Re: Mac OS X Leopard (Re: new problem)
Diana:
This might aid you. When a new OS is written, 3rd party functions of
soft/hardware take some time in catching up. A huge portion of
the Epson market is fine art such as we are into . . . particularly
with the Mac computers. An instance you might notice is that in
television and
in film the protagonist is virtually always seen operating a Mac
computer. So, Epson pays attention and on their web site, below, are
some Beta driers for the 3800 to work with Leopard.
They say:
The following Epson drivers are for use with Apple Macintosh OS 10.5
- 10.5.x. These drivers are offered for public beta testing only, so
Epson provides them "as is," without any warranty, support or
liability of any kind. Final release of these drivers is expected to
be Q1 of 2008.
These Epson Leopard drivers are all new. They are being designed to
take advantage of the latest technologies introduced with the Leopard
OS. One major feature is the 16-bit printing path. We are designing
the drivers to function so that if you are printing 16-bit files from
16-bit capable printing applications, the data remains untouched in
native 16-bit form as it arrives into the Epson printer driver for
color and screening processing.
Here is their web site:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supAdvice.jsp?
type=highlights¬eoid=101603
Best
Jack
On February2008, at 4:49 PM, Diana Bloomfield wrote:
Ryuji:
Thanks for the information (most of which, admittedly, is over my
head). ;)
Since I initially asked the question, I'll just say that Leopard
installed fine for me; that wasn't the problem I had. My problem
is, after installing Leopard on my desktop (iMac), my Epson 3800
printer isn't fully functional anymore. That's an Epson problem,
caused by something Apple did between 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5
(Leopard). My Epson driver worked perfectly well with 10.4; with
10.5 (Leopard), there are all sorts of problems.
Why Apple would make such changes, that the Epson driver no longer
works, is beyond me. The 3800 is not *completely* non-functional,
but I have to make all sorts of adjustments each time I try to
print anything. It prints, but for my purposes, it may as well
not. Epson has said they will have an updated driver by March,
which should clear up the issue--they say.. There are some other
weird problems, too-- I happen to use GIMP (not Photoshop), and
I've lost function there as well. Other minor issues occur, too,
like when I'm looking at text in Preview and attempt to copy
anything from that-- when I paste what I copied, it pastes
something entirely different-- just jumbled phrases from a totally
different section of the text.
I know this isn't connected with alt processes, except that I make
digital negatives for use in alt processes-- so maybe I can say
that, and it won't be completely off-topic. ;)
Mark had suggested that I keep Tiger installed on another computer
and have that computer connected to the 3800. I did do that, but
no sooner did that happen, than my hard-drive crashed on that
computer. I suspect that was just a coincidence-- bad timing and
bad luck.
Thanks for your input, though. I did have new hard drive
installed on the laptop, have Tiger installed on that, and have
connected it to the 3800. So far, so good.
Diana
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