Epson / Snow Leopard Woes

January 13, 2009 ·

Michael Reichmann

I usually like to work with state of the art tools. Add to that having a teenage son that loves technology, and you will immediately understand why I was doomed to upgrade to the latest Apple operating system “Snow Leopard” the second it was available.

After doing a totally painless upgrade, I discovered that the driver for my Epson Stylus Pro 9900 was not working. I was really surprised, because everything I had read before seemed to indicate that there should have been no problem. Unfortunately, my printer was completely unresponsive.

I went to the Epson site, and in the Snow Leopard support section I discovered that I needed to install Rosetta first (which I did) and then download and install their driver version 6.55. The instructions on the site are confusing, but they appear to imply that there is no native driver for OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, and that using Rosetta is a temporary patch.

After doing all that, my printer started to ...

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.