Hi Severin, Are you using the Epson Print Plug-In v1.18? CS5.1 is supported from version 1.18 (Mac OS X).
<http://www.epson.co.uk/Store/Printers-and-All-in-Ones/Epson-Stylus-Photo-R2880/Drivers-Support?target=article&extn=.html&articleId=3994#toc8> Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 13/03/2012, at 1:57 PM, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > 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> -- 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>
