Epson Printing with Tiger 10.4.11

BDAqua, thanks for your kind and generous response.

1.) "Since it's a Dual Boot, can you use the OS9 drivers?"

Beats me... I print from Photoshop 7. I can't remember if the program runs under OS 9; nor do I know if running Photoshop under Tiger would let me select an OS 9 printer driver, in lieu of a Tiger driver.

2.) "Does this old OSX driver work?"

It's the same one I had installed under Panther (and the one Epson is still offering), but it doesn't show up at print time.

3.) "Custom installs in Mac OS X 10.4... "

Not sure if this is the ticket -- I surmise the installation of Tiger installs the GIMP drivers, in precedence to the Epson (1.2Ba) driver -- or at least somehow the Tiger print routine won't invoke the old Epson Driver (which I never uninstalled).

4.) " ...I wouldn't be surprised that you could use a later Epson Driver and/or habd edit the PPD to the correct dimensions."

Wow. I assume such editing would exceed my skills (and I'm not familiar with the term "habd"). Are there instructions, somewhere?

5.) "If it uses 4 inks perhaps the Epson WorkForce 1100 Wide-format Printer driver would work?"

A creative thought. I've never looked into the structure of PPDs (or drivers), and have been assuming that either a.) the literal printer name would govern invocation of the code, or b.) Epson might have told me if another set of drivers and utilities might work, or c.) if they abandoned updating their 1160 software for Tiger and PowerPC, they well might have thrown the rest of their printers overboard, as well. I'll try to look into this...

Why can't life be simple, the way it used to be... *:=)

After a series of e-mail love letters back and forth between myself and the company, today I asked Customer Relations for the address of the CEO in Japan, so I could ship my boat anchor back to him, personally.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks, BDAqua.

I'm afraid I don't know much about these matters... Is it true, then that:

1.) a PPD file is a text file (that can be opened, edited, and then saved as a TXT file with an application like TextEdit-- with the extension PPD)?

2.) the PPD file does not contain a literal within it naming the printer model (but the file's name, solely, identifies it to the printing software)?

3.) a person would still have to have some version of Epson's printer driver software that works under Tiger (such as the Workflow 1100 you mentioned) in order to use the PPDs and ColorSync / ICC Profiles?

Cheers -- N.

Embarrassing, but true -- I tried printing again using the GIMP drivers that come with the Tiger (10.4.11) package, and found them to work now, when I make the correct selections.

This means appropriately choosing settings in all of these: Page Setup, Print With Preview, and then in the Printer Features menu of the Print dialogue. When these are right, the documents print without error.

I'm reluctant, then, to install the GutenPrint package that I downloaded, just because I need more simplicity in my life, but I'll keep them archived until there's a compelling reason to apply them (such as, for example, when and if I need to use SourceForge's Terminal printer utility for head alignment, or to check ink levels, or to perform a nozzle check).

Many thanks to you BDAqua, for your indefatigable efforts on my behalf... !