Shared Epson R2880 Driver Settings

Because of my setup I am using a MacBook Pro to share an Epson R2880 printer connected directly to it. I want to print out of Lightroom to the shared printer. The setup works fine until I change the printer settings, which are not picked up by the remote Mac.
Specifically, the R2880 has two black ink cartridges which are swapped out depending whether you are printing to matte or glossy paper. When I switched cartridges, the remote Mac does not pick up the new settings, so it presents the wrong media choices.
Anyone know how I can get the remote Mac to pick up these changes in the driver so it knows I swapped out the ink cartridge? This is a matter of updating the local driver with the remote driver settings. Its not apparent to me how to do that.

My name is Syd and I work for Epson America, Inc.
From your description, there is a problem receiving information from the printer via your network. This would be why new printer settings are working with the direct USB connected computer and not picked up by your remote mac. You did not mention the connection of your remote mac, however if using wireless the issue may be with the Apple wireless bonjour driver. We would recommend contacting Epson tech support to verify your setup as there are different variables that would affect this issue.
Here to help,
Syd

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10909012#10909012
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2. Open System Pref. and Print/Fax
3. Highlight the RX580 printer
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First of all apologies if this is in the wrong thread, If so, could an admin please move it to a correct one?
I have searched google and these forums for an asnwer but am still having the same problem.
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Apologies for the legth of this post but it needs it.
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The third photo, another B&W, I again used PMC and did a small test print - it printed magenta. This was only minutes after printing photo 2.
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Shutdown PC and went to bed. Printer remained switched on to save on ink cleaning routines.
Today.
Booted up PC.
Did a small test print using PMC and it came out B&W - no colour cast. ??????
Printed full size and it came out B&W no colour cast. On checking the print I noticed some blown highlights so went back into CS5 and did some adjustments to recover the highlights.
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If drivers and applications are working (written) properly this is how it is supposed to work.
When printer manages color is selected in an application print dialog then all functions of the printer driver are available.
When applications manages color is selected then Color Matching is grayed out defaulted to ColorSync, and the property written print driver defaults to No Color Adjustment (Epson) or No Color Correction (Canon).
See attached examples of both Epson 9600 driver version 8.19 and Canon iPF driver version 2.14.
Epson can and has definitely gotten it right with their latest drivers.
Canon on the other hand uses a special case file (AppColorMatchingInfo.xml) which list the applications that use Apple's new printing path. New application like Photoshop CS5 will need to be added to this file or the driver will default to color management when application manages color is chosen which results in double profiling.
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