Epson R1800 driver

Indeed, if you read through this forum, you will find there are currently hundreds of printers that do not work with Leopard. We can all empathize with you. Hang in there.

Personally, I had to replace my Lexmark printers with Epsons, (I DO have an intel mac) -- Lexmark has no immediate plans for any drivers for Leopard for their printers.

I reinstalled the drivers from the website on my G4 and they installed fine. May be worth a shot.

my r1800 works, but not well. it craps out prints at 3 times the speed and about 10% of the quality it should be printing at. frustrating to say the least.....

I have spoken to Epson Australia and they say Japan is working on drivers as we speak. I have also spoken to Adobe as Lightroom and P/S doesnt see all r1800 printer features in the print panel such as ability to turn off printer management , preview is all wrong and colors print out terrible.. Adobe also say that the epson drivers are no good and wait till the new ones are released. USA have posted r1800 OSX leopard drivers in epson usa site but I think they are rejigged old drivers posted as a fill in till the new drivers are posted. Ive tried them and they work in a very limited fashion

Rgds

Knackers from OZ

I am using the drivers from epson at present some of the functions dont work ie finest detail etc, some options are grayed out. I hope that Epson get the new drivers out soon.

good to hear it's getting worked on. it's a shame that printing is such an issue with Leopard. it makes me feel like they rushed it a bit...

I just wanted you to know that I am having exactly the same experience as you. Downloading the driver for the Intel Mac on Epson's web site does no good as you probably figured out already.

When do you suppose we will get an updated driver from Epson?

Arg... I just installed My R1800 to my Imac today, of course I have to print something... I went out and grabbed all the latest driver etc from Epson, and everything seemed to install fine, until it came time to actually use the printer. Most of the option are missing for paper, no way to select the Type of paper your printing on, no way to adjust any of the printer settings, and to top it off Epson's utility program crashes every-time I try to do anything.

Sigh. Guess Im in the same boat as the lot of you. Didn't even know it until after I screwed around and then searched the web for answers.

I have a dual 2gb G5 and an Epson Stylus Photo R1800 connected via firewire. I also thought the 10.5 Epson driver wouldn't work. I spoke with Epson tech support and was told that it would. I downloaded the driver and it seems to work fine. Before my computer was unable to recognize the printer in the printer and fax window, but after installing the driver it showed up. I also use a RIP software, PowerRIPX and it works with the printer as well. The description of the driver on Epson's website is somewhat ambiguous. I think that is the problem. It seems to indicate it is for Intel only. The driver I used is Printer Driver v3.0aAs.

Hi cg
What you're having is that the driver that appears by default is a Gutenprint, which is a generic driver, without all the options that you get with the Epson.
If you already installed the last Epson driver for 10.5.x, your next step is to open Print & Fax inside the System Preferences panel, select on the left side your R1800 (one click only) and below click on the "-" sign to remove the printer from the list.
After that, click on the "+" sign and add again the R1800.
On the bottom of the new window there's a button that says "Print Using", click on it and there should be 2 options of drivers for the R1800, one being the Epson and the other being the Gutenprint, select the Epson and everything should work fine again.

Good luck.

Pedro

Sorry, no Joy 😟

I have performed the steps exactly and yes, the printer does show up etc, but the printing is horrible. I have moved the printer over to a Windows XP computer until this is sorted out. Sad, cause it's now the only reason I have that XP system running.

One last thing.
When you click "Print" inside the application you're using, you should be able to select the profile for the media you're using, after that, when you click on "OK", another window opens.
On this window, you've to click on "Layout" in order to select ALL the printing actions, otherwise, you'll be printing in "Draft Mode".
Let me know if it worked for you.

Pedro

No, sorry no change. There also seems to be and issue with the tools part of the driver crashing. I'm just going to use the printer over on the XP computer I have for now and wait till a working driver is released.

I just downloaded the Epson Easy Print Driver for the Epson R1800, and it appears to have fixed the problem. I believe Epson just put it out on the website on 11/15. Good luck everyone.

Cant see these new drivers, can you point me to them?

Cheers