Epson 740 Utilities

Hello,
I just received a new iBook with Tiger OS and my Epson 740 printer worked right away using the built in Tiger drivers. However, I see no way to access the Utilities for such things as cleaning the print heads. I went to the Epson support web site and see no drivers for OS-X there. I am fairly sure they use to be there as last summer I got the 740 in mint condition at a garage sale. I do not recall but would imagine that is where I got those drivers. I might add that the Utility feature is not available on the G5 using 10.3.9 either with the drivers I downloaded then. Any suggestions or a source to obtain the actual Epson driver that will give this capability would be greatly appreciated.

You must use the Epson-provided driver to use the utilities. The Epson-provided driver is listed as "Epson USB" in Printer Setup. On Tiger, click More Printers to get to the menu to select Epson USB.

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I've read the different options offered for my problem regarding not being able to get a Epson 740 to print in Tiger, and tried the fixes offered. No Luck.
IE. I found the Library/Printers/Epson/740 plug-in, so I know the plug-in is present in Tiger, but the Printer preferences do not allow me to "add" this plug-in. I can name it Epson Stylus 740 and high light it in the name option, but can't add under "more printers" - the option button is grayed out.
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Run Printer Setup utility and click the "Add" button.
a "Printer Browser" window should appear with a
small spinning gear.
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In Printer/Fax preference, I click on Epson 740 and a small window pops-up reading "Jobs Stopped". I click the "start" icon, and it reads, "No job printing." Basically, I keep going around in circles.
Does X have a preference file which I can delete and start over like in system 9? Have NO idea what the Adobe PDF 7 thing is all about.
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I know I'm really snatching at straws, but here goes.
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One reason you are getting confused is because this printer was designed with a serial interface (used on pre-USB Macs) and a USB interface (used with current era Macs). The articles you have read regarding communications errors and Appletalk all refer to usage of this Mac via a serial connection and the older driver versions designed to support use of this printer via a serial interface. You should not be seeing these error messages at all if (a) this printer is cabled directly to your Mac mini with a computer-to-printer USB cable and (b) you are using the driver for this printer built into MacOS 10.4.
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The "try later" usually means that Apple's update servers are temporarily down, and that often gets corrected within a few minutes.
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Message was edited by: Andrew Jung1

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