Epson R1800 driver

Finally New Driver available here:-

http://tech.epson.com.au/downloads/product.asp?sCategory=Inkjet&id=stylusphotor1 800&FileType=1&EmailAdd=&MetricIDReturned=1811401&platform=macosx

Are you referring to the Easy Print driver....or a different one?
I have the Easy Print driver installed already (for about a week....if it's the same one you are referencing!) and PS3 works fine now. However, I still have very poor results with Lightroom and I'm wondering if Adobe or Apple or Epson are going to address that.
Thanks for the update.

It is the official new osx10.5 driver. Totally different from easy print. Check and you will see.

Knackers

Its labelled "SPR1800_612EDFGIPSs.dmg"

Ive loaded it and its fine. Even has new layout under Lightroom with added features

Knackers_ wrote:
Its labelled "SPR1800_612EDFGIPSs.dmg"

Ive loaded it and its fine. Even has new layout under Lightroom with added features

I still cannot adjust Finest Detail, its greyed out, is that the same with yours?

Cheers

yes its the same. Mine is also grey'd out. From memory it was grey'd out on all the earlier drivers also. I have checked quality as I use it for high end photographic work and prints are fine.

Knackers,

Is a printer driver from Australia different from one that would be delivered to us in the states? It seems that Epson here is giving us an older printer driver from 2006 which presents my R1800 with all kinds of printing issues--color is off, there is banding in the prints, plus there is no selection in the print dialog box for remembering the type of paper. etc.

Thanks for any help,
Lindy

Only thing that I think could be different is maybe paper sizes which from memory USA a4 slightly different from Aus/UK but thats easily changed in settings. Cant see how any other things could change such as ICC profiles etc as most epson Paper and inks are iimported from America anyway. I have used USA drivers in the past as well as UK/ European et for my r1800 and on the whole havnt noticed any big difference. The aussie drivers are most probably from Epson Japan anyway as I doubt they would be writing their own here locally.

Knackers

I downloaded that one, removed the old printer added it back and it still has the 3.01 driver.

Hi, after lots of problems with my R1800 when I installed Leopard I'm now getting excellent prints again after installing Epson's '6.12 driver' which was released yesterday (3rd December) on their UK website. Prior to installing this I experienced all the problems described by many other users on the forum.
K.

Thanks K4KJR, I went to the UK site and installed the Epson '6.12 driver' , and it worked! No more suffering!

Hi kuchu, glad to hear your problems are over. As I said earlier, I've had a frustrating two weeks with my R1800 after installing Leopard but now, with this new driver, we are 'back to normal'.
Regards,
K.

I'm still watching to see if a US version of the driver comes out. That is, I see that there is a "fixed" driver available in Australia and in the UK that resolves the issues with Lightroom. However, not yet in the US.
Why is that?
Also, I have downloaded the Easy Print driver from the US page and it works fine with PS3. I wrote to Epson twice to ask about an update and all I've gotten was a canned response both times.
Any suggestions....I'm still not sure if it's "safe" to load a driver for the UK or Australia due to paper sizes, etc. Or am I being too careful?

Thx Knackers!

This Australian driver got me back up in running after a few hours of total panic while (trying) to print my xmas cards. What I did:

- system preferences > Printers > removed Epson R1800
- reset printing system (just in case)
- reboot (always helps)
- install SPR1800_612EDGIPSs from the Australian Epson site
- tested in Aperture and CS3
- Holy M of G the Epson dialogs are back! (make sure you use EPSON in place of Gutenberg)

Thanks again - hope the US drivers come out soon

Aramon wrote:
Thx Knackers!

This Australian driver got me back up in running after a few hours of total panic while (trying) to print my xmas cards. What I did:

- system preferences > Printers > removed Epson R1800
- reset printing system (just in case)
- reboot (always helps)
- install SPR1800_612EDGIPSs from the Australian Epson site
- tested in Aperture and CS3
- Holy M of G the Epson dialogs are back! (make sure you use EPSON in place of Gutenberg)

I use this driver in Aperture the only box that cannot be used in the V6.12 drivers seems to be the Color Matching box its all greyed out, and the Finest Detail box, is that the same with yours?

Cheers