EPSON Stylus Photo R320 work around

I checked what is available while printing a web page from my browser.
Under print settings, I can select automatic or advanced. Under advanced, I can select Economy, Normal or Photo. Other options are greyed out. All the options concerning the types of media seem present and selectable.

Under Color Management, I can choose Gamma 1.5, 1.8 or 2.2. Three active buttons are Color Controls, Color Sync or Off. Modes available are Epson Vivid or Epson Standard.

Advanced setting seem partially disabled or at least not fully slectable. In Epson Vivid mode, I can only see brightness with a slide next to a box with a "0" inside. If I slide the brightness control, the numbers in the box go up or down. If I choose Epson Standard, a bunch of other boxes with "0" in them appear, but no slides next to them. If I tab into the boxes and enter numbers, slides appear. BUt there is no label to tell me what advanced setting is being changed.

Is that what you found?

PrintSettings, ColorManagement, PrintOption and ExtensionSetting all have a strike line trough them. The Statement "The bundle "Each of the above" could not be loaded because it doesn't contain a version for the current architecture."

I guess I have done something wrong here in trying to restore them. Maybe I need to start over. Any suggestions?

That means there are not SnowLeopard driver for your printer, yet, and the Leopard driver for your printer is not 64-bit. The current solution is to launch the application in 32-bit mode (in Finder, find the regarding application, choose "File" -> "Show Info" menu item, then check the "Open in 32 bit mode" checkbox, then relaunch the application) and then bring up the Print sheet again. Then, pay attention to driver update when you run Software Update, and check the release note about whether the SnowLeopard version of your printer driver is there.

I was only checking these settings in Safari. If I use Photoshop or Firefox the settings are all available! That is great news for me. I am currently printing to a DVD with My Epson R320 for the first time since installing Snow Leopard! I am using Discus and all my options are there! Guess Safari will only allow 64- bit print drivers? Thanks for the reply.

Any suggestions for those of us who have a new computer and never had an older Leopard folder to go back to? Here is what I've done so far:

1) Downloaded the correct 10.6 driver and common update files from Epson for my printer (Stylus Photo 320).
2) Installed the driver first, then the common update files.
3) Rebooted.
4) Added the printer in the Apple printer preference pane.

Here's where it gets all screwy. SL automatically choosed the Gutenprint driver every time. There are two other drivers in there (via the "Other" section): Epson Stylus Photo 300 Series, and Epson Stylus Photo New 300 Series. If I choose either of the two that are not Gutenprint, I cannot print at all as I get errors. The only way I can get this thing to print is by using the Gutenprint drivers.

I deleted the /Library/Printers/EPSON folder and reinstalled everything again with the same results. I removed the /Library/InstalledPrinters.plist, reinstalled everything again with the same results.

Any thoughts on how to get this to work? Why does SL insist on the Gutenprint driver when I have the "factory" drivers installed?

my solution was "gutenprint-uninstaller-1.2.6.dmg" from the project's homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files

with this uninstaller you can remove any Gutenprint drivers "installed by Apple". there's also a newer version of the Gutenprint drivers available on the same page (gutenprint-5.2.4.dmg, with the uninstaller in it), if your Epson driver doesn't work.

my old Epson printer and printer/scanner (SP 1290 + CX5200) work like a charm with "factory" drivers (v3.09, 2007) and with Leopard's Epson drivers, without "common update".

What do you mean by "reinstalled everything"? If you remove the entire SL printers folder, why put it back, since that's what's causing the problem? Download an older driver for your printer from the Epson web site (http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid= 47541&prodoid=47915738&infoType=Downloads&platform=Macintosh) and try using that instead.

When I say reinstall everything, I mean the official Epson drivers.

I would love to use any factory driver. The problem is that no matter what I do, none of the OEM drivers will show up in the Add Printer utility - only Gutenprint.

When you reinstall the Epson drivers, are you reinstalling the most recent ones, or going back to an older vintage?

If you know of a way to transfer 800 mb (and can explain it simply), I'd be happy to send my old /Library/Printers folder your way.

»my old Epson printer and printer/scanner (SP 1290 + CX5200) work like a charm«

Should have tested a little bit more... In 64bit-applications I see those "strike-through menus" too. So I installed Epson's "common updater" to find out it only installs an annoying background process to tell me when to buy ink. Thank you, Epson, for your Snow Leopard common updater from 2008.

Just downloaded the Epson 2.1 update from Apple. Used software update to get it. Both my Epson printers are now working great. The R320 and the C120. These are not Gutenprint drivers so all the options are present. Feel better knowing I have Snow Leopard supported drivers now.