Epson Photo Stylus 1280

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I just had to do a complete reinstall and I don't recall where I got the updated driver to support borderless and roll-paper printing in OSX. Any ideas? The epson site doesn't seem to have it.
 
You didn't say which version of MacOS X you completely reinstalled. Apple includes a fairly complete set of drivers for Epson printers available at the release of the OS. My installation is complete as of 2005 April 5. If you didn't install your Epson drivers, do so.
 
I am aware of the mutliple drivers that come with the OS, but it's not the one I need. It's basically a package that includes 5-6 different printere descriptions. 'epson 1280 sheet feeder', epson 1280 borderless', epson 1280 roll-paper', epson 1280 borderless roll-paper', etc.
I'm running 10.4.6.
 
this printer was purchased when OSX was brand new, so the driver it came with was only for classic. you'd think the update would be a free download frmo the epson site, but that's not the case. it may even be an adobe driver of some kind that i found. i know that's what i had to do for the encad novajet at work.
 
mspain77 said:
this printer was purchased when OSX was brand new, so the driver it came with was only for classic. you'd think the update would be a free download frmo the epson site, but that's not the case. it may even be an adobe driver of some kind that i found. i know that's what i had to do for the encad novajet at work.
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You are all over the map here. MacOS X 10.4 ships with MacOS X drivers for your printer. There is no need to look to Epson's website for a driver when it is either on your computer or your MacOS X 10.4 distribution disk. Apple supports only Apple printers in Classic. Prior to MacOS X, it never provided Epson drivers. Adobe supports only PostScript printers through a MacOS 9 PostScript driver. Adobe's driver is an alternative to the familiar Apple driver. Some vendors--most notably, HP--wrote their PPD's to be a better fit to Adobe's driver than to Apple's. (HP PPD's work fine with Apple's driver, however.)

From left field you bring in the Encad Novajet. This is a family of wide-format RIPs from a Kodak subsidiary.

Suffice it to say, your last post included a lot of mutually exclusive information. Before your next post, you need to sit down and figure out which printer you have, how is it connected to your computer, and how you intend to use it. For instance, did you use an Encad Novajet RIP to drive your Epson 1280?
 
If you read the last more closely, it only refers to the encad because another gentlemen from these forums pointed me in the right direction with an Adobe driver that SAID it only worked with OS8 but he told me to ignore that and he was right. It works seamlessly with OS9 and provied all the options for the different widths of roll paper that the encad can accomodate.
I know about the drivers provided by OSX 10.4, but I still don't have the printers that I mentioned in the last post. I know that's out there because I had it before. Nothing else that has been recommended up to now does what I'm looking for.
 
Sorry to butt in here...
mspain77 - is it possible that noone has told you that the way to install the multiple Epson drivers you want is to click More Printers in the Add printer dialog, then select Epson USB, then select "Format for:" All?
 
that's a good suggestion, but in this case these printers are not found in my Printer Setup Utility. I still need to locate them outside and download them.
 
How many times do we have to tell you? There is absolutely positively zero doubt that you have the driver for your printer. Epson print drivers, and specifically the driver for your 1280, came preinstalled on your computer and the System Restore disk for your computer, or the distribution disk for MacOS X 10.4, or both. If the driver does not show up in Printer Setup Utility, then you have to reinstall it from the MacOS X 10.4 or System Restore disk.
 
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