Problems with Epson 2100 Printer Drivers

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Problem with Epson 2100

I have an Epson 2100 that printed without problems under OSX 10.2 until OSX 10.2.8. Recently, without any known reason, it stopped to print. The printing monitor showed that it started to process the document, but after a while it stopped. When I clic Start Jobs, it started to process the document again, and it stoped again, and so on. I reinstalled the drivers, but it didn't help. Later, I initialized the disk and installed Panther. At the beginning everything was ok, the printer was working. But now it have the same old problem. I already reinstalled the drivers from the Panther CD, and I also downloaded the drivers from the Epson website, but it's still not working. One detail: if I open the Printer Utilities and choose to clean or to align the printer heads, the printer works! Can anybody help me? I'm getting crazy, I need so much the printer for my job. Thank you!
 
Go to the Utility folder and run Disk Utility. Have it verify and repair permissions.
That should do the trick.
 
I think I need your advise again. Something strange is happening now. It's already the second time that the computer freezes, the monitor becomes darker and I see this message, over a black rectangle and in several languages: "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button. Is this similar to the old mac bomb system error message? Why is this happening? I never had a message like that before, I'm worried. Thank you for you help.
 
That is called a kernel panic. Have you installed new peripherals to your mac recently, or RAM etc, or installed new software?

Also, is it the second time in a short time, or was the other a long time ago?
 
After installing Panther I installed only the software I already used with Jaguar. And, when I started to have those problems with Epson Printer, I installed the drivers that I downloaded from Epson web site, but when I saw that they also didn't work I threw them away and installed the drivers from the second Panther disk. And I made that permissions' repair, advised by Cheryl. I had those kernel panic messages both yesterday. The first one I can't remember what I was doing, I think I was checking my e-mail, with Mail application. The second one I was opening, from the desktop, a PDF created by me in Photoshop, and Adobe Acrobat Reader was starting.
Kernel panic is a so scaring name, that I'm now also in panic!

I didn't install any new peripherals, I have the same old ones.
I have a PowerBook G4 (2.1), 667 MHz, with 512 MB memory. Attached to the USB I have a Wacom Tablet Intuos 2 and the keyboard. Attached to the Firewire I have a LaCie Pocket Drive 400 Mb/sec Speed. The Epson 2100 Printer is attached to the keyboard.
Before installing, I downloaded all the most recent drivers.
 
I think your problem is the printer attached to the keyboard. The keyboard does not get that much power from the USB to share - except with the mouse.

Get yourself a self powered USB hub. (it has its own power cord).Then the keyboard goes direct to the computer, the printer and the tablet goes to the hub and the hub goes to the computer.

In the meantime, unplug the printer from the keyboard. When you need it, unplug the tablet and plug in the printer.
 
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