Hi Robert, We need to make sure you haven't had a printer failure first. You may want to boot into OS 9, install the printer drivers and confirm that your printer is working. If it fails here, your printer may have gone belly up assuming your printer cable is OK.
If it works in OS 9, you have a firm basis to troubleshoot your problems in OS X. You seem to have tried almost everything. I would refrain from quickly reinstalling the Epson drivers as that support for the 1280 is installed with Jaguar by default. If you have a problem in the future, deleting your printer from Print Center is usually the appropriate step to take. Try running Print Center Repair and see if that does any good. Check back and let us know. http://www.versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/kind=1&db=mac&id=14641/ pcr202.dmg.sit (you may even choose to do this first!) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 859 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021226/7ad85cc5/attachment.bin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.tiff Type: image/tiff Size: 7322 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021226/7ad85cc5/attachment.tiff -------------- next part -------------- Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 01:16 AM, Robert M. Klein wrote: > OK, folks, here?s a good one. ?I am running 10.2.3 on a G4. ?I have an > Epson Stylus Photo 1280. ?I had been printing for about a week since I > installed 10.2.3 (through Software Update) with no problems at all. > ?No other system changes were made. > > All of the sudden, I can?t print. ?I was trying to print some photos > in iPhoto when it happened. > > At first, the printer made some noise as if it were going to start > printing, then I got an error message that the print que had stopped. > ?I did all of the obvious things, every combination of turning the > printer on and off, rebooting the computer, checking Print Center to > restart the que, etc., checking the cables; and the printer is > operational because I made it print out the test page and it was > perfect, with all colors, etc. ?I fiddled around with the Epson > Printer Utility. ?The printer came up but when I tried to test > anything it said that there was a connection error, to check cables, > turn the printer off and on, etc. ?I went to the Epson support site > and downloaded the latest driver 1.2bA and installed it. ?Nothing > changed except now the Print Center won?t find the printer at all, > either under USB or Epson USB. ?The Epson Printer Utility doesn?t find > the printer at all now, either. ?The print dialogue box under a > regular program shows ?no printer selected?. ?I have tried to print > from a variety of programs with no change. > > I searched the Knowledge Base and Discussion Groups at the Apple site. > I saw one suggestion to run Disk Utility to repair permissions, which > I did. There were a number of permissions corrected, according to the > little report box. ?I rebooted. ?Same thing. ?I searched > VersionTracker, but the same driver that Epson posted is there. > ?Should I reinstall the printer driver after permissions have been > corrected? ?Do I have to reinstall 10.2? > > Any thoughts or suggestion will be most appreciated. > > Thanks, > Robert > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2110 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021226/7ad85cc5/attachment-0001.bin
