Epson r1800, imac leopard, cs3 PROBLEMS

ive found a ton of stuff on forums etc - does anyone have a definitive answer/solution to this problem?
when i printed to the r1800 from my g4 laptop, using cs2 all was fine
now on leopard with cs3, cant find all the options (i.e. turn color off etc)
real pain
this is nothing to do with inks or papers

Hi Laura.
Isn't that the most frustrating thing in the world? Anyway, that isn't the right driver. That is the one that ships with Leopard (or something, I don't know - anyway, wrong one).
Try deleting the EPSON folder again, deleting your printer from system prefs/print fax, reinstalling the driver and re-finding your printer. Now that I think about it, I did that, and generally fiddled around in there a bit, before it worked.
I don't know how Macs associate printers with drivers (I'm a PC person and missing my PC!), but once the software in the dmg package was properly installed, the printer automatically picked up the EPSON SP R1800 (1) driver when I told it to go look for printers. I didn't have to choose it from the list of drivers.
Hope that helps.
Susan

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respond to your inquiry.
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missing, your system may have automatically added the printer using the
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operating system.
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