I have unplugged and re-plugged the wall plug and the USB cables to no avail. When I turn on the printer all the lights flash, which makes me wonder if it needs to be reset somehow. Thank you to those who are helping me solve the mystery of the disappearing Epson Stylus Color 740. So if you are looking to replace this printer it would be safer to do so after Lion is released when people can comment and vendors will be able to post their supporting drivers. But one thing to note is that if there is no Universal Binary printer driver available for a printer (there is only a PPC driver) then it cannot be installed on Lion as support for PPC apps and drivers has been dropped. And anyone that says it will work has either broken their agreement or is just guessing. Anyone that does know the answer is not allowed to comment due to non disclosure agreements with Apple. If you open Finder and navigate to HD > Library > Printers you should see an Epson folder and your original Epson drivers (not the Gutenprint drivers) will be present here.Īs for your original question about a new printer supporting Leopard and Lion, at this stage it is not possible to tell. Hitting the minus button in Print & Fax does not delete the printer driver, just the print queue. With the 740 listed you can select it and then click OK and then click Add to complete the queue creation. So you can scroll through or type 740 in the search window to filter the list of available printers. You should also see a number of Gutenprint drivers in this list, assuming you did run the installer after downloading (in fact there is a number of Gutenprint drivers that are included with Leopard by default so you should have a decent list here). This will present a window that lets you search for the printer. So with the printer connected to the Mac and when selecting to add the printer, you should be able to change the Print Using menu to 'Select a driver to use'. The message you are getting "No supported Epson printers found" will be a result of the printer setup utility looking for an Epson driver rather than the Gutenprint driver. I could buy a new printer.but then I wonder if it will work with 10.5.8 AND with a new upgrade I'm contemplating to Lion.Ģ) If a new printer will be able to work with 10.5.8 and with Lion? It's the same situation as in paragraph 1. So, I d/l'd 10/5/8 again, and hoped that with the new d/l, the printer driver would be there and everything would work. I went online to Epson to d/l a printer driver, and they tell me there isn't a separate d/l for that I must go to apple and get it from the OS d/l. Actually, hitting the plus sign doesn't result in my printer showing up in a list, so at this point, I just unplug and replug the USB cable for the printer, and try to print again, and it works by using the "default" printer. In the past, I have solved this by opening Sys.Preferences, going to Print & Fax, selecting my Epson printer, hitting the minus sign to delete it and then hitting the plus sign to add it in again. Now, when I try to print, all the lights on the printer flash, and I get a message saying there is a problem with the connections. I have 10.5.8 and am using an Epson Stylus Color.
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