New Drivers (finally) Resolve Mac OS X 10.6 Epson 2200 Printing Problems
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.
G Dan Mitchell :: Nov.28.2009
Equipment, News, Software
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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