Printer Drivers

design-is

macrumors 65816

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Oct 17, 2007

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London / U.K.

• Apr 22, 2008

• #1

Hi all

When I received my new MacBook Pro, I followed some of the advice on here and did a clean install of Leopard, not installing the printer drivers, with the idea of installing them later if I need them.

Now I have been having difficulties finding my install disk and can't seem to download the drivers from anywhere... Can anyone offer a possible solution or point me in the right direction?

Thanks very much for any help!

 

MisterMe

macrumors G4

Jul 17, 2002

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USA

• Apr 22, 2008

• #2

Which printer do you need a driver for?

 

design-is

macrumors 65816

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Oct 17, 2007

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London / U.K.

• Apr 22, 2008

• #3

Epson c42 at the moment.

Possibly HP Color LaserJet 4700 and HP DeskJet 1220c & 1100c in the future.

Thanks for quick reply

 

skunk

macrumors G4

Jun 29, 2002

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Republic of Ukistan

• Apr 22, 2008

• #4

For the Epson, just go to www.epson.co.uk, click on "Support" and take it from there. Similarly with www.hp.co.uk.

 

design-is

macrumors 65816

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Oct 17, 2007

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London / U.K.

• Apr 22, 2008

• #5

If it were that simple I wouldn't of posted.

can't seem to download the drivers from anywhere

Click to expand...

...They don't have them for OSX 10.5 because they assume they are pre-loaded I'm guessing.

Epson & similar with HP.

Anyone able to help in any way?

 

skunk

macrumors G4

Jun 29, 2002

11,759

6,109

Republic of Ukistan

• Apr 22, 2008

• #6

Have you tried this page?
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/...&oid=14403&prodoid=21643927&category=Products
and this page?
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...iesId=306730&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=219
and this page?
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...riesId=25521&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=219
or you can do a custom install from the Leopard DVD, but then you get a truckload of other drivers too.

 

design-is

macrumors 65816

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Oct 17, 2007

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London / U.K.

• Apr 23, 2008

• #7

Thanks for this, I had only looked on the European site. I'll give these a try and post back if they don't work. Otherwise, thanks very much

 

D

doctoree

macrumors 6502

Jun 28, 2008

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Secret lair/ Earthmiddlepoint

• Jul 6, 2008

• #8

I'm trying to use my HP DeskJet 930c with my Leopard MBP.

It's a Network Printerserver the Printer is connected to and I'm using the Gutenprint Driver shipping with Leopard.
The good news:
It's working

The bad news:

1. When printing under XP the Printer is automatically switched on when a Print order arrives, this doesn't work under Leopard

2. The quality is really bad. It only print a handfull of pixels and the prints look like newspaper quality. I tried different settings but the quality always remains so bad.
What can I do?