Epson R200 Direct CD Print

After upgrading, Epson R200 printer prints to paper just fine. However, when trying to print directly to CD/DVD, the image is off centered from the CD/DVD. The Gutenprint 5.2.4 drivers allow for minor adjustments vertically and horizontally. But what is needed is some major adjustment (42mm off).
I tried printing with the latest version of "The PrintShop2" as well as the Epson supplied "Print CD". Both result in the same problem. I'm guessing there's something wrong with the Gutenprint printer driver.

Guess I fixed my own problem. Here's what I did:
1. From System Preferences / Printers & Fax, Removed the printer.
2. Reinstalled Updated Epson drivers.
* Did not install Gutenprint drivers *
3. From System Preferences / Printers & Fax, add the printer and insure Gutenprint driver is NOT being used.
Now, "The PrintShop2" and the Epson "Print CD" apps work fine. Whew! Back in business.

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Printing w/ Epson R200 an I still have hair

After days of trying to print with Aperture to my Epson R200, I wasn't have much success. I followed all the rules, change the setting in the Epson R200 perfences to Photo RPM, and turn off color management. Back in forth etc. Print borderless was usless and I was having color banding issues and my prints looked horrible. I tried everything!
Untill i did more research.
Conclusions to all of the headaches and sleepless nights...
For some reason when you add the Epson R200 to your printer set up using the "plus" key it adds the wrong drivers and wrong color proflies. It says it's it but it isnt'.
You have to delete the one you added "normally" and go about it another way.
1. System Pref - Printers and Util
2. click add printer with plus sign
3. more printers
4. choose Epson USB under the drop down menu
5. click on the Stylus photo .....
6. under drop down menu for Page setup choose "Sheet Feeder Borderless"
7. Go back to Aperture and follow all the normal rules of printing.
MY LIFE HAS CHANGED.
well may be not too much but i've got consitent good looking real bona fide borderless printing now on my trusty R200.
I'm excited and I can finish the christmas gifts that I had in the works!

you probably got the GIMP (open source) drivers, not the Epson supplied drivers. while i applaud the open source community for getting drivers working, their ability to match colors with the epson papers is a horrible mess. Apple should make it more obvious that you're not using the manufacturer's drivers!
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Printing Problems with Epson R200 Printer

When I try to print from Aperture my prints come out "flat" and the colors are off. When I export the the same file to PS Elements 4.0 my prints come out great. I would prefer to not have to do this. Here is some background information on what I have tried to do so far to correct this problem:
1. I have searched this forum backwards and forwards to try and find an answer - no luck!
2. Purchased a Spyder2 monitor calibrator
3. Wasted a lot of paper trying various settings.
4. Yes - I have read the two articles on the Aperture site regarding printing and calibration. I have followed both of these articles and still get poor prints when printing from Aperture.
5. I have met with the genius at my local Apple Store to work through the problem. He informed me that he only prints from Photoshop and did not really know how to solve my problem.
6. Purchased the Aperture 1.5 book from Apple to see if I could find out anything else that I had not already tried.
Help please, what am I missing? It seems to me that all of the books written on Aperture stress printing books and not photo prints as their main area on printing. Can I get the same results printing from Aperture as I can printing from Photoshop Elements?
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iMac 20" Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.9)

When I try to print from Aperture my prints come out
"flat" and the colors are off. When I export the the
same file to PS Elements 4.0 my prints come out
great. I would prefer to not have to do this. Here is
some background information on what I have tried to
do so far to correct this problem:
1. I have searched this forum backwards and forwards
to try and find an answer - no luck!
2. Purchased a Spyder2 monitor calibrator
3. Wasted a lot of paper trying various settings.
4. Yes - I have read the two articles on the Aperture
site regarding printing and calibration. I have
followed both of these articles and still get poor
prints when printing from Aperture.
5. I have met with the genius at my local Apple Store
to work through the problem. He informed me that he
only prints from Photoshop and did not really know
how to solve my problem.
6. Purchased the Aperture 1.5 book from Apple to see
if I could find out anything else that I had not
already tried.
Help please, what am I missing? It seems to me that
all of the books written on Aperture stress printing
books and not photo prints as their main area on
printing. Can I get the same results printing from
Aperture as I can printing from Photoshop Elements?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Randy
iMac 20" Intel Core Duo
Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac 20" Intel Core Duo Mac OS
X (10.4.9)
I'll attempt to answer my own question. After much trial and error along with a lot of wasted paper and ink I have found the source of the problem. Aperture works exactly like it should if you follow Apple's recomendations for printing. My problem was that the profiles supplied for my printer by Epson are horrible! I purchased a Spyder 2 Suite screen calibrator to try and fix this problem and did not have any luck until I ran the included Print FX software and created a new profile for my printer (Epson R200). The prints are now coming out great and virutally indistinguishable from those printed via Photoshop Elements. The clue to fixing this is that when I turned on "on-screen" proofing and selected my old printer profile the output did match the screen. Unfortuntely the screen images were not using the full gamut of color (hence the flat pictures) because it was gettting it's information from the Epson ICC Profile. In summary, if you are suffering from this problem find a way to create your own profile for your printer. There are expensive methods which involve purchasing a spectrophotometer. I took the middle of the road route and created a profile using a software only profiler (Print FX). I'm sure that depending on your printer you could download a better profile on the web. Either way you get it done you'll be happier. NOTE: I guess some printers come with better profiles than others which would explain why some people don't have any problems.
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Printing through a shared Epson R200

Hi,
I have just bought my first Mac, a macbook and i'm having a few problems with it printing on my Epson R200. The R200 is shared through one of my XP machines, the macbook can recognise it and print through it, but any advanced features such as print quality, borderless, CD Printing etc are not showing up.
When I added the printer, I selected the R200 model and it's using the GIMP drivers?
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Dan

You have encountered a difference between Windows and OS X. On OS X, there are two printer driver APIs (application programming interface = all the programming tools and info needed for programming) that can be used for drivers - the Carbon one (which is also used by Cocoa if you wanted to use Cocoa for a driver) and the CUPS one (CUPS is the open source spool control system Apple uses in OS X). Brother is the only manufacturer so far to write CUPS drivers for its non-postscript printers. Everyone else uses Carbon, and with Carbon the manufacturer gets to insert exactly which comm protocol will/can be used by the driver.
Short version - the Epson-provided driver for the R200 is only capable of direct USB connection. CUPS drivers can use any comm protocol available to the CUPS system (including Windows Printing). That's why you're using the Gimp-Print (CUPS) driver.

Epson R200 looses print options

I have an Epson R200 that I've been using happily with a G5 running Tiger. I regularly print photos to it. A couple weeks ago - after nothing else had changed - it stopped giving me all my print options. I get the standard number of copies and output to file, etc but I don't get the Epson specific options - like individual color saturation and more specific types of paper.
At first, I assumed it was a driver issue and I downloaded and reinstalled Epson's latest drivers for this printer. Didn't work. I then deleted all traces of previous Epson drivers and preferences and tried again to no avail. I logged in as a different user and had the same problem.
I spent time on the phone with Epson and Apple who had me try basic things before pointing the finger at each other. Finally, I archived and installed Tiger again, did all my updates, reinstalled the printer and everything worked - yay!
Until about two days ago. Again nothing has changed - nothing new installed, no updates - but suddenly all my Epson specific options are missing. Apple and Epson are still no help. So to you members of the forum I say, "Help!"
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These threads may help:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=810557&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2040003#2040003
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We like our R200 printers. They work ok, but we find we are printing 1000 DVDs a year (middle school) and the Epson R200s are not really designed for that level. We raise some funds from the sales of DVDs. What is a better option besides the Epson R200? The next level?

Jeff
this is the machine I use on a daily basis
it dupes 50 CD's or DVD's in a batch before printing labels on each one
there is a printer only version available which is cheaper
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Need guidance. I keep hitting a wall.
I recently unpacked and set-up, a newly purchased refurbished Mac Pro Tower 2012, with OSX 10.8.5
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I went to the Epson website for the drivers, etc. and it states that for Mt. Lion, the user has to get the download from Apple.
A few months ago, I purchased a HP laptop with OS8, and when I plugged the R200 into it, it instantly recognized the printer. No downloads required. How is I can print from the HP laptop, but not my Mac Pro Tower?
Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you for responding.
My Epson has an install disc, which I attempted to install into the Mac Pro Tower, but it rejected and thus the process I outlined above, occured.
Update: Cannot explain why or how, but the machine now recognizes the Epson, and allows me to print. The only thing I can think of is, I had utilized the Disk Utility to repair permissions, which there was long list of corrections. I then restarted the machine and that is when the update window downloaded the Epson drivers.

Windows XP won't print to Mac Tiger w/Epson R200

I have Windows XP successfully networked through a router to a Mac OS X 10.4.6 with an Epson R200. I've successfully assigned the Printer to the Windows XP.
I followed these instructions
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3012.html
The XP DOES send the job to the Mac. It shows up in the Printer Jobs on the Mac but the job is Stopped.
I've tried using an installed Epson R200. I also tried using the Apple Color LaserWriter as per the above instructions.
Any Help?

Bump
No one else has ever had this problem or has an example of a working solution?

I am using lion with a HP laser 1320 and a Epson R200. When I try to print two A5 pages onto A4 paper in booklet form the pages are scaled down. How do I cancel the scale down in the printer dialogue boxes.

The printer drivers are supplied by Apple and if I go to the HP site for their drivers they refer me back to Apple saying they supply the drivers for the Epson R200 and the HP laser 1320.

Well, MS Word does something like this automatically - if you tell it to start a new section on an odd page, and if the section before it ends on an odd page, it will "skip" the even page number in between - and when it prints, it automatically spits out a blank page in between them, so that on a two-sided printer, the odd pages all print on the front of the paper (which is the right-facing sheet when they are put in a binder or book).
InDesign shows the pages like this on the spreads (odd page numbers always on the right), so it is aware of the desired orientation, and I'd think it would provide a mechanism to ensure that they print out this way as well...

Printing 4X6 Borderless Photos on Epson R200

For some reason, I am unable to print a borderless 4X6 photograph using my Epson R200 printer. All other photos print without any trouble, just not the borderless prints ... anyone have any suggestions?

I was having problems with an Epson Stylus Photo 890 after buying the 4x6 instead of the perforated 4x6 paper and received the following response from Epson tech support.
Thank you for contacting the Epson Connection.
For borderless printing in OS X.3 please follow the steps below to download
and install:
1) Open your PRINT SETUP UTILITY (you can open this by opening your HARD
DRIVE, APPLICATIONS, UTILITY, PRINTER SETUP UTILITY). Make sure your
printer is powered on at this point.
2) If your printer is listed, simply highlight it and click DELETE. Once
the printer has been removed from the Print Center, click the ADD button.
If your printer is not listed, click the ADD button.
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and then select your printer. Once your printer has been selected, click on
the name to highlight it.
4) Once the printer is highlighted, a Page setup will appear at the bottom
of the print center window. Simply click the drop-down menu and select ALL.
**PLEASE NOTE: ALL MUST BE SELECTED FOR BORDERLESS PRINTING SUPPORT. **
Then click ADD.
5) You will now see several listings in the Printer list for the printer.
Highlight the appropriate printer for your printing. For example, Stylus
Photo 900(Roll paper) or Stylus Photo 900(Sheet Feeder-Borderless)
depending on what type of media you are selecting. Then click MAKE DEFAULT
on the toolbar or click PRINTERS on the menu and click MAKE DEFAULT. Close
the Print Center.
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driver under PAGE SETUP and that the correct printer option is selected in
the menu listed under FORMAT FOR(these two must be the same, if the Sheet
Feeder-Borderless is the default printer, if must be the same in this
Format for option) and try printing.
If you require further assistance with this particular issue, please ensure
all of our previous correspondence is contained in your reply, so we can
better track the history of this issue.
If you have a different technical support issue, please submit another
E-form via our website (http://www.epson.com), and we will respond in a
timely manner. Thank you again for contacting Epson.

Upgraded and lost Epson R200 Borderless printer option

I just upgraded to Tiger on my eMac, and was sailing through everything until I went to print an 8x10 borderless print on my Epson R200. The "sheet-fed_ borderless printer option I used to have was no longer available in any of my apps. I went to print utility to try to add it again and couldn't find it in any list of options, even trying to add it to the list!
Anyone else had this happen or does anyone know what's going on here?
Thanks,
Barry

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ICC profiles for Epson R200

I have the paper and printer profiles for my Epson R200 for PSE 7. I don't know if I can use these in PSE10. How do I do that. Or do I need new ones.

Form your statement written what I understand is "You are trying to use Your Epson R200 printer with PSE10 and also the same paper and profiiles that you used with PSE7".
PSE10 would not create any issue in printing in such situation.
You can easily print with ur old printer using printer profile to print output.
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Epson Stylus Photo 820 print workaround for OS 10.3.9?

Howdy!
I have an Epson Stylus Photo 820 that I'm using under OS 10.3.9- that I can't seem to (directly) print to out of in most applications. It works fine in Safari and Entourage and Quark; but out of Photoshop, Illustrator; InDesign, Word, etc., there's no print option. I have to click Preview first and then am able to print. It doesn't work at all with Adobe Acrobat Pro 7 and one or two other apps. The driver I have installed is version 1.1.0 (I didn't see any updated drivers on the Epson page). The Print Manager sees it in the queue. It's checked and set as the default printer. Yet, I still have the headache.
Anyone else having similar problems? Is there a workaround?
Also- I kind of miss my printing options of my (long gone and MUCH better quality) Epson 740 under OS 9 where I could set the print quality level of the print out. Is there a similar option for the 820 under OS 10.3.9?
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Thanks, but the one driver that may have worked (though it states for OS's 10.1.3-10.2.6... there is no 10.3.9 version) has a dead link.
link
This is really frustrating that Epson will take your money and not support their product. No wonder they have a huge class action suit against them.

Epson Stylus r360 issues printing in Leopard via Airport Extreme & Bonjour

I hope I am not duplicating any posts, have searched but have not found a similar problem.
I have an Epson Stylus Photo R360 printer connected to my Airport extreme via USB sharing the resource around the house via Bonjour to all my Mac's.
Problem is it works fine under Tiger but the 2 Mac's that have been upgraded to Leopard 10.5 no longer print. It discovers the printer and loads in the printer configuration window ok, drivers are found and the printer looks good to go.
However, when you try and print, after about a minute an error appears on the printer in Leopard with an exclamation mark and is unable to continue.
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G

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I received this from Epson - but it did not work either:
Power off your product.
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Click Delete Printer to confirm and close Printers & Scanners.
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