I,
I have a Mac (G4 dual) and a P4 - both have 512 Mbyte, both more than 100 GB
room (I still run out of space). Yes, the Mac has a place it spools for the
printer - it is buried under the Drive 1/OS/system/god knows what/etc. IT
isn't the problem. I also have a p2000 printer. I ran into problems
printing from my Mac as long as I had OS 9.1 The problems were varied, and
after offering to demonstrate cranial rectal inversion on someone at Epson,
I was finally kicked up to someone who knew something. Basically, he had me
turn off everything, but especially, I had to turn off background printing -
Epson's drivers wouldn't work in the background, meaning that I couldn't
edit and print at the same time. Since the P4 and the Mac are networked, I
took to transferring the printing to the P4 which is happy to print in the
background as it merrily does data modeling. I moved the process back when
I got Mac OS 10.?, and it has been fine since then. Of course, Epson blames
Mac, and from what I know of OS's, I think they are right, especially since
they are able to get along with Windows. I suspect that there is no true
background for Mac 9,1. While my experience was with background printing, I
would suggest that there are other things that may be creating problems, and
I would ask Epson if they even expect the 2200 driver to work with a Mac OS
less than 10.2, or so. BTW perseverance used to work with Epson's customer
service...
Good luck,
-- Brad
The scientists, not the philosophers, now address most effectively the great
questions of existence, the mind, and the meaning of the human condition.
Edward O. Wilson --The Philosophers' Magazine, Autumn 1999
>>> What do you mean by "read the manual"? [:~[:~[:~]]
>
> Just being cute in an attempt to keep things on the light side while
> informing you that I am a male.
>
> There is no printer spooler folder on a Mac.
>
> There has to be one, although it may not be called that. If there is not
> one, where are the files that are sent to the printer stored while they are
> being feed to the printer and after they have been processed by the printer
> driver? If there is no spooler and the file is sent directly from the
> program to the printer or from the printer driver to the printer, the
> printer will chock on the overrun because the hardware buffer in the printer
> itself is relatively small and can only hold a limited amount of data before
> it chocks and crashes.
>
> Ok, it sounds as if you have a single drive with one partition. Since you
> have said that you have run a defragmenting program on that drive and 18 GB
> of free and available hard drive storage space, it seems as though lack of
> free and unfragmented space is not the problem. Now that I am sure that we
> are using the same language and talking about the same thing I have to admit
> that I am at a loss for solutions and you may have to speak with someone
> familiar with Macs. Have you called Epson about the problem?
>
> filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk wrote:
>> on 7/11/04 4:41 PM, Laurie Solomon at laurie@advancenet.net wrote:
>>
>>> If you read the manual closely, you will find that SHE is a HE. :-)
>>>
>>> First, how many physical hard drives do you have (1, 2, 3, ...); and
>>> if you only have one or two physical hard drives, how many partiions
>>> is each broken down into and what size are they?
>>>
>>> Second, how large is the partition that contains your OS; and how
>>> much of the space in that partition is empty or free?
>>>
>>> Third, locate the folder that contains the printer spooler files and
>>> see if there are any temporary files in that folder; if so delete
>>> them since they are probably orphaned temporary files of old files
>>> that were sent to the printer and are not now needed.
>>>
>>> Report back with the information concerning 1 and 2; and let us
>>> oknow if you located the OS's printer spooler folder and if it had
>>> any temporary files in it.
>>>
>>> filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk wrote:
>>
>> Laurie,
>>
>> What do you mean by "read the manual"? [:~[:~[:~]]]
>>
>> There is no printer spooler folder on a Mac.
>>
>> I don't have multiple hard drives or partitions...unless those
>> partitions are kept blissfully hidden away by the Mac OS.
>>
>> I'm now going to try to print something of the same size etc without
>> using the new profiles.
>>
>> Merci,
>>
>> Berry
>>
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