Thanks, Daniel, I have tried much of that. Will press on. Severin On 13/03/2012, at 12:21 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
> On 12/03/2012, at 4:51 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: > >> A short while back I upgraded from Photoshop CS3 to CS5.1 and I am having >> problems with printing to an Epson SP R2880. I am unable to access the >> "colour" setting for colour, greyscale etc no matter what paper or other >> settings are chosen. At first I believed this was a Lion problem but >> Graphic Converter has no such difficulties and everything is accessible as >> it should be in the print dialog. I must admit that having page setup and >> print settings combined in the one "Print Settings" heading in PS 5.1 was >> minorly off putting at first. I have worked through every setting and >> preference in Photoshop to no avail. The printer driver is the latest from >> Epson, Snow Leopard actually and Lion performs an update on the >> installation. Epson phone help has not been able to offer anything except >> that what I have should work. >> Is anyone else using this same combination Lion 7.3/CS5.1 Photoshop/SP R2880 >> who can comment? >> Severin Crisp > > Hi Severin > > Though I haven't come across that "exact" problem, I had a client with a > R2880 that did have some printing issues for various things. (and it was > actually running in 10.6.8 rather then Lion) > Unfortunately it wasn't something that was easily fixed via a couple of lines > of email., and infact took a bit of prodding and poking around various things > to fix them. > I wish I could offer some exact answers (or some exact fixing suggestions) > but it wasn't that simple. > > A few things to try (from my job notes for it) were to download and reinstall > the Epson driver. (Even as a stand alone download) > Try Epson ones first - <http://tech.epson.com.au/downloads/product.asp> > Then try Apple's ones - > <http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1398?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US> > There was also something about getting Page Setup (or similar) first to > ensure it was using the "correct" Epson drive. (ensure it's loading the Epson > driver and not the Epson Gutenprint driver). Set it there, and photoshop had > another set of settings to adjust printer selection as well. > > Once we played around with a few of the printer selections and printer > settings, we got it to mostly work a lot better then it did. (Though in the > end it still missed something.) > Sorry, I don't have Photoshop so can't' remember all of it straight from work > notes. > > But that would be were I'd start working through first. > You've got Photoshop fully updated (well bar the 5.5 version I'm guessing) > > Hope something there helps > > Kind regards > Daniel > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Macintosh** > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> ________________________________________________________ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au ________________________________________________________ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
