Epson Artisan 730 Printer and iMac

I have installed a new Epson Artisan 730 printer onto my iMac running Mac OS X ver 10.7.5. When I try to print documents from Mail or Adobe Reader X Version 10.1.4 the printer spits out a blank page. I can print from Word and Excel with no problems.

Your problem is not the same as that of the original poster of this very old thread, and it can be very confusing for everybody if we try to answer more than one question in each thread.
In order for us to give your problem our undivided attention to try to solve it, would you kindly start your own thread, describing the trouble you are having in the fullest detail, including completing your details to show what Mac or iDevice you are using, what operating system, and what version of the application in question. Please remember to post in the forum relevant to your hardware or version of OS X.

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First some people have had problems getting the printer drivers to update via software update, make sure you have the correct drivers as shown in this table.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3669
To see what driver you have go to System Preferences > Print and Scan > into the printer utility and under the general tab you'll see the driver version.
To force an update delete the old driver
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15947486#15947486
I just resolved a problem with our Epson Artisan 730 and print quality, turns out the USB drivers and WIFI drivers are VERY different and the USB drivers offer much better quality, more options in the print dialog for quality and color management.
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I have a MacBook Pro that came with Mac OS 10.7 Lion on it, and had been printing on both an HP Photosmart 8200 and an Epson Artisan 800. I had an issue where I would print from Photoshop and every time I would print I'd need to make a new printer. I don't think that it was ONLY WAY, but it worked for me. Anyways, I finally got tired of scrolling down the list to choose the new printer – HP Photosmart 8200_23 – or something like that, so I deleted some of the printers that had extra numbers. This is where the print Print & Scan dialog in the system prefs has the little plus and minus. It turns out that I pressed the minus on everything - going overboard with my clicks. Now, I have NO PRINTER and each time my computer tries to download drivers from HP and Epson, they have no updates for me. When I go on there website there are no drivers for Mac 10.7. I have no idea how to get my printers back. Any ideas or assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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Download the HP drivers here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL907
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Cannot print from Aperture v.2.1.2 to an Epson Artisan 800 printer

I recently purchased an Epson Artisan 800 printer and I would like to be able to print from Aperture. Unfortunately, I have been unable to do so, in spite of multiple conversations with the Epson support group. I am able to print from other applications, such as TextEdit, Safari, and iPhoto. However, when I try to print from Aperture, I never get any output from the printer. Depending on the image that I try to print from Aperture, I will see an error message flash on the printer's display screen.
I captured the following error message from the "system.log" file:
Jan 20 20:11:24 new-host Aperture[12196]: An instance 0xce644a0 of class RKPrintPreviewView is being deallocated while key value observers are still registered with it. Observation info is being leaked, and may even become mistakenly attached to some other object. Set a breakpoint on NSKVODeallocateBreak to stop here in the debugger. Here's the current observation info:\n<NSKeyValueObservationInfo 0xf86da40> (\n<NSKeyValueObservance 0x1c6597e0: Observer: 0xb8c7d10, Key path: selection.isModified, Options: <New: YES, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x0, Property: 0x1c641630>\n<NSKeyValueObservance 0xce9b170: Observer: 0xb8c7d10, Key path: selection.gamma, Options: <New: YES, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x0, Property: 0xce7e7d0>\n<NSKeyValueObservance 0x1c659830: Observer: 0xb8c7d10, Key path: selection.blackPointCompensation, Options: <New: YES, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x0, Property: 0x1c640340>\n<NSKeyValueObservance 0x1c65ef80: Observer: 0xb8c7d10, Key path: selection.colorSyncProfile, Options: <New: YES, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x0, Property: 0x1c65d8e0>\n<NSKeyValueObservance 0x1c65d890: Observer: 0xb8c7d10, Key path: selection.dpi, Options: <New: YES, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x0, Property: 0x1c6715c0>\n<NSKeyValueObservance 0x1c65eba0: Observer: 0xb8c7d10, Key path: selection.sharpenAmount, Options: <New: YES, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x0, Property: 0x1c645070>\n<NSKeyValueObservance 0x1c65ebe0: Observer: 0xb8c7d10, Key path: selection.sharpenRadius, Options: <New: YES, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x0, Property: 0x1c645630>\n)
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I am having this problem on both my iMac G5 and my wife's MacBook. Both are running the latest versions of Mac OS X (10.5.6) and the latest version of Aperture.
If anyone has been able to print from Aperture to an Epson Artisan 800 printer, please let me know how you did it. Thanks.
Bruce

I run 10.4.11 and am unfamiliar with that specific Epson. However step one with Epson troubleshooting is to do any OS updates then download and install the latest Epson driver, even if what you are using is current. The new install will simply install over the old installation. Repair Permissions via Disk Utility immediately before and again immediately after both the OS updates and the printer driver installation.
Once good Epson paper and a new driver installation are done the final step is to carefully follow Gary Ballard's excellent color management tutorials:
<http://www.gballard.net/psd.html>
Good luck!
-Allen Wicks
P.S. Epson tech support for consumer printers has always been worse than useless. Specialized support for the pro printers is pretty good.

I am unable to scan on my Epson Artisan 730 since downloading yosemite

Since downloading Yosemite on my Mac Book Pro I am unable to scan on my Epson Artisan 730 printer. The printing function still works.

Did you add the printer using the AirPrint driver? If so, add it again using the Epson driver (by selecting the Epson driver in the "Use" menu in AddPrinter). If you don't have the Epson drivers installed, you can download them here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1398
Hope this helps.

Acrobat 9 fails to recognize (scanner) Epson Artisan 730 after Mac Pro and Mountain Lion Upgrade

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If anyone has any workarounds or solutions, I would be grateful.

1strail wrote:
Of course now I have a red badge on the App Store that is asking me to update the Epson driver. I wonder if that will blow out the TWAIN driver. It's epson14333.dmg.
No. Your TWAIN drivers are separate than the Image Capture Device drivers that would be installed by the printer driver update.
Also, no way of getting rid of the badge notification in system preferences. App store is not listed.
There is no law that you must update software just because it is available. There is no way to get rid of the red badge, but you don't have to do the upgrade.

Printing in Word with Epson Artisan 730

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She said that her Mac version is OS X 10.9.2. Thanks for any suggestions about things to try.
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First some people have had problems getting the printer drivers to update via software update, make sure you have the correct drivers as shown in this table.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3669
To see what driver you have go to System Preferences > Print and Scan > into the printer utility and under the general tab you'll see the driver version.
To force an update delete the old driver
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15947486#15947486
I just resolved a problem with our Epson Artisan 730 and print quality, turns out the USB drivers and WIFI drivers are VERY different and the USB drivers offer much better quality, more options in the print dialog for quality and color management.
If you already have the correct version of the drivers maybe a mac connected to the printer via USB can share the printer and then you can print with the USB driver. I know that's a pain since that's what we did before we got the 730 with WIFI.

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Any help would be appreciated:
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You're welcome.
But, no, don't look to Epson for fixes to their driver in newer versions, and Adobe has deprecated the TWAIN plug-in. Hoping for a solution there is futile. That has not happened and it's never going to happen. The consensus is that it's pretty foolish to tie up Photoshop to scan. Honestly.
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What exactly is the error?
And, we'd need some info re. your Mac model and OS version - you are not running iOS on it.
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What could be my issue?
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Thanks Garry.....
I found out something interesting. Apparently when Adobe changed from using
Twain to WIA the program (which began with ver. 10; I've used Adobe for
awhile and have had previous versions) the ability to scan via adobe with
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having difficulties also and I never figured out why, that's why we bought
the Epson.
Which is OK, because the I didn't like the HP all that much anyway.
Thanks for taking the time to contact me about this...I've not used forums
much.
Appreciate the help,
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