SL won't print from Epson Stylus Color 740

My Epson Stylus Color 740 won’t print from SL.

OK it’s an old printer, but it’s still fine for text – what’s more I still have some cartridges. Epson say that don’t support it any more. But is there a work-around for this problem?

Thanks

M

According to Epson support, drivers for the Epson Stylus 740 are preinstalled in OS X Leopard. What operating system are you using?

Regards.

chscag said:

According to Epson support, drivers for the Epson Stylus 740 are preinstalled in OS X Leopard. What operating system are you using?

Regards.

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Hey chscag, I can see that you missed it, so the OP's using SL.
Regards, Kane

Epson Stylus Color 740 with OS 10.6.2

Thanks for the replies.

I have OS 10.6.2 on an MPB and am not altogether surprised that that the old printer didn't work at once because I believe that Apple dumped a lot of drivers from SL.

But I was rather hoping to find a solution because I mainly use text and the 740 is fine with Tiger on my iBook.

M

It's not that apple dumped drivers, it's that printer vendors haven't updates drivers.

Found a thread on Apple Support Forums where a user got the Epson Stylus 740 working in 10.6.2 with the GutenPrint drivers.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2256938&tstart=1

That's interesting ... VMT. The printer is not where I am now but I'll try later and report back.

M

Epson Stylus Color 740 with OS 10.6.2

Hurrah for this forum!

I've downloaded the Gutenprint driver and my Epson 740 now works with 10.6.2. As I say in the original post, the old clunker is not brilliant for colour quality, but it still does a fine job with black text ... and that's what I mainly use.

Thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction.

M