Snow Leopard + Epson Stylus Pro 4000

Are you using a RIP with the Epson 4000? Which one?

According to Epson UK, you'll need to run your print application under Rosetta in 32-bit mode, as they've yet to release an updated driver for the Stylus Pro 4000 - http://www.epson.co.uk/Printers-and-All-In-Ones/Large-Format/Epson-Stylus-Pro-40 00/Drivers-Support?target=article&extn=.html&articleId=3561

Not sure if the above works as I'm using using Aperture 3, which doesn't have the option to open in Rosetta. So, what I've done is to partition a drive, install a version of Leopard (10.5) and use that as my operating system when I need to print. Under Snow Leopard, print management options are disabled in Aperture 3.

According to Epson tech, they are working on a print driver for the 4000, and that it will be released in the "Spring", whatever that means.

For some more info on this problem:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/solving.shtml
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/woes.shtml

Hope this helps...

Try starting Aperture 3 in 32 bit mode and you should find your print options a useable again

davsv1...

Didn't think I could, as 32-bit mode didn't show in Get Info... but after you mentioned it I found this thread - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2345407&tstart=0 and did a safe boot... lo and behold it appeared...thanks for pushing me into looking for an answer!... hope this means I don't have to use Leopard every time I want to print... thanks again...

According to Epson tech, they are working on a print driver for the 4000, and that it will be released in the "Spring", whatever that means.

Yay! Thanks for that info. I was beginning to think they weren't going to support it at all for general application access. For Snow Leopard, I installed the Leopard drivers so the OS could talk to the 4000, and then print everything through the ColorBurst RIP, which is about the only way that works at the moment.

Actually I have just fixed all my printing problems....I've gone back to Leopard and ap2. I'm very disappointed with the time I have wasted trying to get it all to work with SL and Ap3. Now it all works fine again. Fortunately I had kept a copy of my old system on a spare drive so it only took 1 hour to boot again from the decision to revert, will try Sl and Ap3 again in a few months.

Well, after a lot of wasted paper on SL and Ap3 in 32-bit mode, I'm back to using Ap3 with Leopard 10.5.8. Ap3 works fine for me with that set-up, as I can still access my library on the SL drive.

Just found this tonight @ Epson Europe... Driver 8.19, released on April 13th... haven't tried it, so can't vouch that it resolves the problems...

http://esupport.epson-europe.com/FileDetails.aspx?lng=en-IE&data=0ccCGROWIYMP8yg Gcx0rpKU002Fvr8e98xsdp1KWLNiMPM4U003D&id=326038

Tried the above driver from Epson Europe... printed via Snow Leopard 10.6.3 and Aperture 3 using the "more" option setting with a canned Epson profile... the color appears correct, but in landscape mode there is image cut-off on the right hand side, thus the full frame of the image is not realized... back to 10.5.8...

Finally got the above driver (8.19) to work in Ap3 by increasing the border size to 3/4" in the "standard" preset for letter size paper. I haven't tested it on other size papers, but it seems the problem lies within Aperture's "standard" preset, at least for letter size, as printing thru Preview has shown no problems.

We posted a driver for your printer on 6/16 (version 8.19). It is available at www.epson.com/support
Hope this helps,
Syd

Yahoo! Better late than not at all. 🙂