New Drivers (finally) Resolve Mac OS X 10.6 Epson 2200 Printing Problems
Posted on 28 November 2009
A while back I posted about serious problems with the Epson 2200 printer when used with Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6.x “Snow Leopard” operating system. I won’t recount the whole story here (that’s what links are for!) but the short version is that Epson had not updated their drivers when Apple released the OS update, and then Epson failed to communicate with their customers or update the drivers in a timely fashion – leaving photographers who used several of their printers including the 2200 “high and dry.”
The good news is that Epson did release updated drivers during the past week. The updated driver appears to resolve the very serious printing problems that rendered the 2200 essentially unusable for several months.
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Thanks for your information, however when I go to the Epson 2200 driver web site, I find nothing new from the previous postings by Epson. When these drivers were downloaded and installed, I continued to have the same muddy green pictures. I had no problems prior to MAC 10.6.
I have been waiting a reply from Epson on the update with no word so far.
Again, thanks for your input.
Boy, Epson’s web site certainly doesn’t make this easy. If you go to the “Snow Leopard” pages there you won’t see anything for the 2200, or at least I didn’t when I just checked. However, if you bypass the “snow leopard” links (and the new pop-up warning if you run snow leopard) and navigate to ink jet printers and then select the 2200 from the popup list you’ll find that a new driver is available:
[+] Printer Driver v8.12
Macintosh OS X (v10.6 – 10.6.x)
epson13564.dmg – 10MB – posted on 11/25/09
Mr Mitchell would you mind explaining how to load this new driver. I have a mac and a 2200 that only prints with leopard if I choose printer control for color management. I have downloaded the 13564 but have no idea of how to incorporate it into the program. Thanks a million!
Ozzie Regueira
Hi, Ozzie:
Not sure I can fully resolve this for you remotely, but here are a few thoughts. First, to install the upgraded driver you just need to download the software from the Epson web site (which I presume that you have already done) and then double-click the installer to run it. From here the installation process is pretty automatic.
If you are printing from Photoshop, the broad outlines are that you first need to go to Printer Setup and select your printer and the right paper size and orientation. Then choose Print. Have Photoshop manage colors, and make other appropriate settings in this box. Then click the print button to see the second print dialog. Here you may have to again select your printer and choose your paper and some other parameters. In this dialog be sure to select the option that does NOT have the Epson printer software manage colors – turn printer color management off.
Dan
With the latest 10.6.3 updates and EPSONs driver updates (rev 8.23) I still have issues using off the shelf ICC profiles (EPSON and ILFORD to name two sources). Workflow using Photoshop (CS4) performs color management:
With legacy ICC profiles and the latest drivers (downloaded in May 2010) from Epson (epson13564.dmg) and then a larger download from Apple (EPSONPrinterDrivers2.3.1.dmg), I have the following issues:
– Print a test patch (say 8.5 x 11 image scaled 25% in the CS4 print menu) and print it in lower quarter of the page.
– you would expect the printer to scroll the paper to said patch and NOT print a fine mist all over the page, but it does not work as expected. My older icc profiles Epson dated 2003 and Ilford ICC profiles dated 2004, 2008 have the same issue.
- Thus color management is incorrect for the new driver and old profiles
- I updated my print profiler (Datacolor) to Spyder3Print, and developed new custom profile.
- The NEW profile works as expected, printer will scroll to the test patch and print a color corrected image. Not perfect, but now better than the Ilford factory profiles after some tuning.
(I reran the old driver and old profiles under 10.5.8 and things work as we expect, so my printer hardware is OK)
There is still something amuck with 10.6.3 and EPSON drivers – a custom profile or a 3rd party RIP may be required to work around this this.
CAUTION: I had to use CS4 to print the test color patches for the printer profiling to disable color management: Spyder3Print reverted to the preferred printer ICC profile when printing the test patch!