Printing on an Epson Color 3000

Hello all,
I managed to get ahold of a Epson Stylus Color 3000 printer with ethernet card...
but, the problem emerges. I attached a CAT-5 cable to it, and the "network test page" tells me little.
and the IP for the machine is 11.22.33.44
I have an old PowerMac 7200 running the Stylus RIP software (although it is very, very slow because it only has 15MB of RAM)
Anyone happen to know how to fix the printer to work on the network?
Thanks!

Dave,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
“Offending Command” could be a number of different issues, i.e., font(s), LZW compression of tiff images, memory etc.
Is this a new problem, i.e., printing from the G5 to the Epson 3000 worked before?
Can you find more info on the error by using the Console utility?
What application and version are you using?
With Stylus RIP, are you using Classic (since the RIP is for OS 9) on the G5?
Have you tried printing the document(s) directly from the G4?
Alternatively, try making your doc a PDF and then print the PDF doc.
If the doc is a multiple page, you could try to isolate the problem by printing a certain page(s), or deleting an image (if there is one).
Hope this helps and let us know what happens.

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Re: Print quality on Epson Stylus Photo R800
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Am running LR 1.3 on a PC, Dual-Core, etc.etc. Last week I installed 1.3 and my new Epson 4880 Stylus Pro. Previously, with 1.2 I had been printing with an Epson Stylus 2200 and had no problems.
The 4880 driver, which is the latest and only driver at this point, brings up print options that I find confusing. It may be just a matter of terminology, but when I use the settthe ings that I think are identical to Photoshop CS3 handling of printing, the image is way too dark. P'shop CS3 prints beautifully with the 4880, exactly what I see on my calibrated monitor.
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