I, I have a Mac (G4 dual) and a P4 - both have 512 Mbyte, both more than 100 GB room (I still run out of space). Yes, the Mac has a place it spools for the printer - it is buried under the Drive 1/OS/system/god knows what/etc. IT isn't the problem. I also have a p2000 printer. I ran into problems printing from my Mac as long as I had OS 9.1 The problems were varied, and after offering to demonstrate cranial rectal inversion on someone at Epson, I was finally kicked up to someone who knew something. Basically, he had me turn off everything, but especially, I had to turn off background printing - Epson's drivers wouldn't work in the background, meaning that I couldn't edit and print at the same time. Since the P4 and the Mac are networked, I took to transferring the printing to the P4 which is happy to print in the background as it merrily does data modeling. I moved the process back when I got Mac OS 10.?, and it has been fine since then. Of course, Epson blames Mac, and from what I know of OS's, I think they are right, especially since they are able to get along with Windows. I suspect that there is no true background for Mac 9,1. While my experience was with background printing, I would suggest that there are other things that may be creating problems, and I would ask Epson if they even expect the 2200 driver to work with a Mac OS less than 10.2, or so. BTW perseverance used to work with Epson's customer service...
Good luck, -- Brad The scientists, not the philosophers, now address most effectively the great questions of existence, the mind, and the meaning of the human condition. Edward O. Wilson --The Philosophers' Magazine, Autumn 1999 >>> What do you mean by "read the manual"? [:~[:~[:~]] > > Just being cute in an attempt to keep things on the light side while > informing you that I am a male. > > There is no printer spooler folder on a Mac. > > There has to be one, although it may not be called that. If there is not > one, where are the files that are sent to the printer stored while they are > being feed to the printer and after they have been processed by the printer > driver? If there is no spooler and the file is sent directly from the > program to the printer or from the printer driver to the printer, the > printer will chock on the overrun because the hardware buffer in the printer > itself is relatively small and can only hold a limited amount of data before > it chocks and crashes. > > Ok, it sounds as if you have a single drive with one partition. Since you > have said that you have run a defragmenting program on that drive and 18 GB > of free and available hard drive storage space, it seems as though lack of > free and unfragmented space is not the problem. Now that I am sure that we > are using the same language and talking about the same thing I have to admit > that I am at a loss for solutions and you may have to speak with someone > familiar with Macs. Have you called Epson about the problem? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> on 7/11/04 4:41 PM, Laurie Solomon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> If you read the manual closely, you will find that SHE is a HE. :-) >>> >>> First, how many physical hard drives do you have (1, 2, 3, ...); and >>> if you only have one or two physical hard drives, how many partiions >>> is each broken down into and what size are they? >>> >>> Second, how large is the partition that contains your OS; and how >>> much of the space in that partition is empty or free? >>> >>> Third, locate the folder that contains the printer spooler files and >>> see if there are any temporary files in that folder; if so delete >>> them since they are probably orphaned temporary files of old files >>> that were sent to the printer and are not now needed. >>> >>> Report back with the information concerning 1 and 2; and let us >>> oknow if you located the OS's printer spooler folder and if it had >>> any temporary files in it. >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Laurie, >> >> What do you mean by "read the manual"? [:~[:~[:~]]] >> >> There is no printer spooler folder on a Mac. >> >> I don't have multiple hard drives or partitions...unless those >> partitions are kept blissfully hidden away by the Mac OS. >> >> I'm now going to try to print something of the same size etc without >> using the new profiles. >> >> Merci, >> >> Berry >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- >> Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe >> filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) >> in the message title or body >> >> >> --- >> Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >> Version: 6.0.718 / Virus Database: 474 - Release Date: 7/9/04 > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.718 / Virus Database: 474 - Release Date: 7/9/04 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe > filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or > body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body