Okay, I'll try, but...
How do you uninstall all the print drivers? Told you I'm a dork.
How do you uninstall all the print drivers? Told you I'm a dork.
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How can I uninstall Snow Leopard or Vista ll?
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I'm having the same problem with my Epson R200. I feel like I've done everything but I'm still having the challenge. I've done what is posted above and I've been searching online for a workaround with no success. What now?
Yes, go into the Macintosh HD-Library-Printers and send the driver folder with the name of your printer to the Trash. Do the same in your Home folder. Home-Library-Printers. Restart the computer or log out and log back in and then go to System Preferences and let SL find the proper driver again.
Sorry, but that's also FUD. I used Vista 64 from Beta 2 when it was very buggy, but starting with RC2 it was not. There were problems with older hardware, but not with the latest generation. Used with newer hardware and 2GB of RAM it ran very smoothly and, in my case, much better than XP.
The problem was in addition to the older hardware that Superfetch took a few days to speed up the system, but by then many had already given up and called Vista garbage. Add to that the indexing that made the harddrive spin almost constantly in the first few days and the terrible marketing from MS. And lets not forget that much of the UI changed which made many users mad.
SL was smart to avoid the UI changes with SL, but as we see the changes in architecture are already angering many like in this thread.
A black window for a video player is out of place?
And a different look for the contextual menus in a portion of the OS that already looks different? Yeah that is a paradigm shift.
The old quicktime UI was also completely out of place, and I vastly prefer the new. Re: the dock - are you just talking about the color scheme?
Of course, you can easily pick at things you don't like in Mac OS, but if you are trying to say that L->SL is as vast a pile of arbitrariness as is XP->Vista or Vista->7, I think that would be hyperbole.
That's a pretty old printer. Is there a newer model that you can tell SL it is? In other words, see if a newer Epson driver will work with your R200.
Or just use Epson R200 drivers for 10.6
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?oid=29081&infoType=Downloads
I'm merely saying that Mac OS X has its fair share of bizarre UI choices.
Each OS has been an odd combination of UI styles (like Pinstripe, Brushed Metal etc.) and they've overlapped in very odd ways.
Windows doesn't and has never used different UI styles for key programs, it's simply not how Microsoft works.
According to this thread at Apple Support Discussions the error code you are getting indicates that the printer does not support the protocol you are trying to use when you add it;
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10108857
You could try posting to that thread for more assistance or start up your own. It sounds like something with the driver is stuck even though you've reloaded it, or the protocol/mechanism you are using to add it won't work under Snow Leopard and you will need to add it with a different protocol.
Cool, I have the printer connected to my Airport Extreme Base Station. That could be my challenge. Not sure about the protocol thing but I'll see what else I can find out. Thanks so much for your research and time.
Nonsense. The ribbon arbitrarily affects some MS programs but not others, and is not supported in the OS so that third parties can use it without trying to copy it themselves. Apple may have arbitrary *styles*, but MS has arbitrary UI paradigms.
Ah, okay so my printer works when directly connected to my MacPro just not when connected to my Airport Extreme. I'm wired to the Airport since I don't have an Airport card in my MacPro (others in the house use the wireless function). So now I guess my challenge is getting it to work over ethernet. Any suggestions?
Now there's three hours I'll never get back.
It's working, not wirelessly, but cabled and, since the computer is right next to the printer, it's all I need. The steps to set up the network connection are a pain in the arse (and I think it requires the software which I can't use), so I'll settle for this. By the way, I found this on the Epson site:
Q: I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6.x and reinstalled the Epson software for my networked printer. I cant install the EPSON TCP/IP driver, but I can install the Bonjour driver. Will the Bonjour driver function the same as EPSON TCP/IP driver?
A: Yes. The Bonjour driver will allow you to add a print queue, print and scan with your network product. Epson is aware of a possible problem with EPSON TCP/IP and is working on a solution. Please return periodically to this Epson Macintosh Snow Leopard Support page to check for driver updates.
Thanks for your help!
or maybe its becuase apple bummers like you cant accept when apple do summat rubbish.
I'll join you in calling Vista a good thing. I'm actually running Vista on my netbook, and it's usable. I was afraid to try it, considering all the horror stories I've heard with Vista and 1 gig of RAM, but Ubuntu was slow, and vista is faster.
I can't wait for windows 7, and actually I've lent my macbook pro to my girlfriend, and don't miss it.
I'll probably mail her a copy of SL though, just so the system remains up to date.
We can't accept it when Apple haters like yourself can't form a coherent enough sentence so that we may understand what the problem is.
You just said it yourself...Starting with RC2. I am sorry but isn't there an RC1 before the two? Vista was horrible in the beginning. Yes it was a memory hog, yes there were driver issues. So no this is not FUD. Look up the thousands of threads on any forum and then come back and tell us if the first releases of Vista went smooth. Come on now.
Well I have yet to have a single problem with SL. I have three printers and a scanner along with the full CS3 suite and have yet to have any issues. I did have an issue with Dreamweaver under Leopard, but so far that has not come into play under SL.
Eh I thought SL dropped PPC support which means if PPC users who are perfectly happy with their machine are forced to upgrade to faster hardware to keep up.
If they are perfectly happy with their machine they can stick with Leopard, no?
And there is a big difference between requiring faster hardware and requiring a different architecture.
A late model G5 is more than capable of running Snow Leopard, but instead of continuing to support the PPC architecture Apple dropped PPC support to reduce the bloat. It has nothing to do with requiring faster hardware, because my old G4 can run Leopard well, and I am sure if SL was PPC it would run well too. It instead has to do with reducing bloat going forward; soon we will stop seeing Universal binaries, they will be Intel only and they will be faster because of it.
If for some reason PCs went under a massive architecture change, you can bet that Microsoft would drop the old architecture once the adoption rate of the new architecture was high enough to warrant so. And that is exactly what has happened here.
Wow. You are equated dropping an old architecture to bloat?
And PPC users aren't "forced to upgrade." That's the whole point. 99% of the point of SL is to increase performance on Intel hardware, and to provide the foundation for future hardware devices. If a PPC user is happy with SL, there'd be little point in upgrading to SL even if such an upgrade was possible.
Your argument is as goofy as me saying: "Well, windows XP dropped support for DEC Alphas." It's true, but irrelevant. And, by the way, Windows NT was also available on PPCs, and microsoft dropped support for that, too.
So I guess microsoft is twice as bad as apple, huh?
The bloated Snow Leopard ISO won't even fit on a single-layer DVD
[ Windows 7 ISO: 3GB ]