My printer utilities are not showing up!!

pfflampfflam
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I want to use my print utilities and they won't show up!



I am using Panter on an Epson Stylwriter 740



any ideas why the utilies remain greyed out no matter what I do?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 10
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    any ideas?
  • Reply 2 of 10
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    Is this a problem that only I have?



    anybody else running an Epson fine on Panther?



    it prints but I can't clean the printer heads or test the ink amounts or align the printer heads . . . please help .



    at least respond negatively if you look at this thread please . . . .
  • Reply 3 of 10
    709709 Posts: 2,016member
    Can't you just launch the EpsonPU App? I'm running a C84 and a...(damn, I forget the other model)...both fine in Panther.



    What program are you printing out of that you can't see the PU?
  • Reply 4 of 10
    matveimatvei Posts: 193member
    Do you click on printers in the system preference panel, then configure, then utilities, while the 740 is selected down below?
  • Reply 5 of 10
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    I have done both of these:



    I have even opened the Epson Software from the Library/printers folder

    as well as go through System Preferences . . .



    perhaps I need to download a new version of the printer software?!?!?!



    I'l try it . .
  • Reply 6 of 10
    jambojambo Posts: 3,036member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by pfflam



    at least respond negatively if you look at this thread please . . . .



    Don't post three times in a row.
  • Reply 7 of 10
    matveimatvei Posts: 193member
    I didn't download any additional software...



    Repair permissions?



    Mat
  • Reply 8 of 10
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Matvei

    I didn't download any additional software...



    Repair permissions?



    Mat



    I tried that and that didn't work either



    i found some threads online where people had the same problem, the only solution I came across ws to reboot into OS-9





    nedless to say that is very unsatisfying . . .
  • Reply 9 of 10
    709709 Posts: 2,016member
    When you installed Panther, did you do a 'custom' install? There were about a bazillion Epson drivers listed there, not all clicked on for auto-install.



    [edit]: According to Epson the driver *should* be on the OSX CD. \



    I hate shit like this as much as you, bro.
  • Reply 10 of 10
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    OK!



    Here's the fix:



    1st, downlaod teh Epson package#2 from the PantherInstall DVD disk 3



    then



    go to System/Library/Printers/Utilities and Double click to open the Epson Printer Utilities from here, otherwise it will still be grayed-out in Printer-Set-Up



    Then you can make an alias and save it on the Dock and in th eUtilies folder . . . .





    . . . . . phwew
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