My Epson 2200 is among the printers whose drivers were broken by the upgrade to Snow Leopard. Epson's support site has been silent on the issue of new drivers, and has posted work arounds that do not work for many customers.

After trading emails with Epson this week, they finally confirmed the following:

"Drivers will become available through an Apple update sometime in the future.

Try calling us directly to see if we can get it going. Call us at 562-276-7296 Mon-Fri 6am-6pm (PT)."

I'm glad to hear that they apparently do not intend to abandon owners of the 2200. In the mean while, I have a second boot drive running Leopard, and am in the process of installing my imaging software on that drive. I plan to reboot when I do printing jobs. I figure that is a lot easier than trying to revert to Leopard on my main drive.

Keep your Leopard bootable drive safe! When Epson releases the new Snow Leopard compatible drivers, test then thoroughly before erasing/updating that drive.

Has anyone heard anything else about this? Any word on when the update will be released?

thx
PP

On my return to Paris recently, after having been away from the city and internet for several weeks, I installed 10.6 and 10.6.1 and immediately observed problems printing to my Epson 3800. Fortunately I noticed the article by Mark Dubovoy on this site that provided workarounds that work while awaiting updated drivers (should they be provided for this printer). I wanted to express my grateful thanks after this brief visit to color-management hell, which I had thought was a thing of the past.

From Epson support regarding the 3800 driver:

Thank you for taking the time to contact Epson. It is my pleasure to respond to your inquiry.

The 6.11 driver for Leopard works fine with Snow Leopard. Updated drivers for Snow Leopard are expected sometime around November 2009.

I would guess my problem with my Epson 4000 is about the same as the
2200. I cannot get my 4000 to print right and have followed all the advice
Epson has on their website, including uninstalling and then installing drivers.
The printer seems like it ignores all my profiles and prints everything very
very dark. Anybody have any success getting their 4000 going?
Thanks

Same problem here!

I updated my system with SnowLeopard at first only to see, that the prints from my Epson 4000 were too dark and mushy. After a few wasted prints and a bit of web browsing I learned that it seems to be a driver problem. Some site suggested trying a clean install of SnowLeopard instead of an upgrade. I tried that as well, but the results were the same.

Too bad though, since SnowLeopard seems to make the system in general and of course Lightroom running a lot faster on my MBPro.

I was planning to get a new iMac or MacPro at this time, but since they are coming with SnowLeopard as well, I will just wait and see if the printing issues are resolved. If not, I might have to direct my money to a new printer working properly on todays operating systems instead of to a new Mac.... But if that will be the case, the money will definitely not go to Epson and this would be a first for me since the very first Epson Photo Printer hit the market....

Anyone has news regarding the issues?

Regards, René