Epson R2400 and intel mac

I am a professional photographer and color management is extremely important to me.
I have the IMac G5 intel core duo and just bought an Epson R2400 because my R800 didn't have the updated divers for Mac OSX 10.4.6. Downloaded the R2400 driver from the website hooked it up to my usb but I can't get Adobe CS2 to manage the color. The only way I can print is to let the printer handle the colors, but that is not the way I want to print. With my old G5 I was able to let photoshop determine the color and I used the different paper profiles to get the perfect prints. I am losing my mind, I called epson, adobe and apple and no one knows what to do. Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, either you have an Intel Core Duo, or you have both a G5 and an iMac Intel Core Duo model. Anyway, there is an Intel-based driver for your R800 printer here Epson R800 Driver for Intel
I'd try installing that first to see if you can get your R800 to work properly.
As for color management, do you have some sort of color profile setup for Adobe CS2 on your G5 that did this, or an ICC color profile that you downloaded and/or modified to do this? Since I don't do color management on my system, it's not entirely clear to me what was happening on your G5 when you chose to print something.
Hope this helps,
Mulder

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