Disgusted with Epson
Pardon the rant, but I'm disgusted with Epson. I bought the Epson C80 printer in March and have had nothing but trouble since then. The problem is that the drivers are allegdly OS X compatible but consistently result in a "communication error." As you can see from the multitude of posts on this subject on the Apple discussion boards, I'm not alone. And Epson has know about this since last Fall when they released the drivers. But they don't seem to care. The work arounds that have been developed work sometimes, but not always. I'd return the stupid printer to the Apple Store but I'm beyond the 10-day window.
If Apple is going to allow Epson to sell the C80 in the Apple Store as OS X ccompatible, then they should insure it works. The fact that it was in the Apple Store, and got good reviews somehow, was the reason I bought the thing in the first place.
Feeing duped and frustrated,
Gobble Gobble
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If Apple is going to allow Epson to sell the C80 in the Apple Store as OS X ccompatible, then they should insure it works. The fact that it was in the Apple Store, and got good reviews somehow, was the reason I bought the thing in the first place.
Feeing duped and frustrated,
Gobble Gobble
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I had the same problem you did after I upgraded to 10.1.3. All you have to do is select the document in the Print Monitor and hit "Retry" and it works fine. Annoying, yes but it is a temporary solution.
However, everything was fixed for me when I upgraded to 10.1.4. No more communication problems. Works first time, every time now.
What version of OSX are you running? Maybe it would help to upgrade?
The only thing I don't like about the C80 is the color. I had to fiddle with the settings for about an hour to get a good color print from it.
As far as Epson's support for OS X, it has sucked other than for a few printer models. Scanner support should be here by now, unless for some reason they don't get pre-release copies of PS (very hard to believe).
NO. I bought a InkJet 380 or something a few years ago, and it's "slow." Epsons take literally 10 minutes to load the (@#*&@)#*7 paper for crying out loud. Epson SUCKS. Is there anything good about Epsons? I haven't thought about them after buying that waste of 300 some odd dollars on an inkjet ~4 years ago.
<strong>Now that was funny. Epson = quality?
NO. I bought a InkJet 380 or something a few years ago, and it's "slow." Epsons take literally 10 minutes to load the (@#*&@)#*7 paper for crying out loud. Epson SUCKS. Is there anything good about Epsons? I haven't thought about them after buying that waste of 300 some odd dollars on an inkjet ~4 years ago.</strong><hr></blockquote>
uh... Epson has th best quality photo inkjet printers and the cheapest ink.
there is a lot good about them. printer problems are as much apple's fault as epson's. printer support in 10.1 sucks
<strong>Fortunately I've had nothing but good luck with my C80 and OS X drivers. So you know "communications errors" are usually the result of a shorted out cable, bad USB housing or something similar.
As far as Epson's support for OS X, it has sucked other than for a few printer models. Scanner support should be here by now, unless for some reason they don't get pre-release copies of PS (very hard to believe).</strong><hr></blockquote>
Scanner support with Epson has been here for about 2 weeks now with PS 7.
As for their printers, I learned my lesson when they didn't support my PS 700, so i bought an HP 90c worked right out of the box, cheaper and a HELLUVA lot quieter then any Epson.
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Scanner support with Epson has been here for about 2 weeks now with PS 7.
As for their printers, I learned my lesson when they didn't support my PS 700, so i bought an HP 90c worked right out of the box, cheaper and a HELLUVA lot quieter then any Epson.</strong><hr></blockquote>
new epsons are pretty damn quiet. and not all features are supported in OS X with the HP... just like Epson. It's Apple's fault
hope this helps.
I don't use classic apps any longer so all is good here.
<strong>Now that was funny. Epson = quality?
NO. I bought a InkJet 380 or something a few years ago, and it's "slow." Epsons take literally 10 minutes to load the (@#*&@)#*7 paper for crying out loud. Epson SUCKS. Is there anything good about Epsons? I haven't thought about them after buying that waste of 300 some odd dollars on an inkjet ~4 years ago.</strong><hr></blockquote>
i bought an ml-1210 samsung laser, jesus what an amazing printer
<strong> Back to my original beef - does anyone know if they are even working on OSX for their digital cameras ? As far as recognition by iPhoto is concerned, can anyone tell me if is up to Epson to make the driver compatible or is it something Apple has to build into iPhoto?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I have an epson PhotoPC 850Z digital camera. Apparantly, according to Apple, epson uses a non-standard transfer protocol with their digital cameras. All the supported cameras in iPhoto use some sort of standard. It's up to Epson to work with Apple on adding support. After seeing 10.2 and seeing epson scanner driver built-in I would assume an effort is being made for the digital cameras as well
Color.
On the down side, I'm not sure that my Stylus 1160 will ever be supported in OS X. It works very well in OS 9, but Epson doesn't even include the 1160 in their list of planned supported printers. Shame, since it's only a year old.
My 1520 has come to rest after 2 years. The costs associated to fix it amount to more than buying a new printer.
My next colour printer will be an HP. They're quality has always been second to none.
As soon as Cannon or HP makes an A2 printer with separate ink tanks I'm gone <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
<strong>Nothing but good luck with my c80 and osx. What you may be running into is a known bug. If you have classic turned on and running and you try and print from a osx app. then you will get a error on print. but if you go to the print center and retry again it works.
hope this helps.
I don't use classic apps any longer so all is good here.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I updated to the latest drivers via SW update and it stopped that problem (I am also running 10.1.4 but the problem stopped with the driver update not the OS update). The only bad thing is it prints so slow in X. I recently printed a 6 page text document and it took more than 20 minutes. Aargh!
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I have an epson PhotoPC 850Z digital camera. Apparantly, according to Apple, epson uses a non-standard transfer protocol with their digital cameras. All the supported cameras in iPhoto use some sort of standard. It's up to Epson to work with Apple on adding support. After seeing 10.2 and seeing epson scanner driver built-in I would assume an effort is being made for the digital cameras as well
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I have an Epson PhotoPC 650 and I've always pulled the CF card from the camera and used a Sandisk reader to import. My Nikon Coolpix 775 will synch directly with iPhoto but its so spotty sometimes that I have been tempted to go back to the old way. I think all of the Cameras have a way to go.
I'm saying that I'll buy a new printer with PS and Ethernet by the end of the summer. But I'd still rather download a crappy-but-OS X-compatible Epson driver than shell out $500+.
Escher, frustrated with Epson <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />