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Use an Epson 2500 printer in 10.2 System
My lovely 17" PowerBook finally arrived. As I set about swapping information and data from my nasty old Windows98 PC, disaster struck -- my Epson Stylus Scan 2500 printer is not supported under OS X. Epson support recommended downloading a printer driver suite called GIMP Print, but it looked pretty frightening as a prospect for a complete UNIX and Apple newbie.

Finally, after much searching, help was at hand. In fact the printer IS supported in OS X 10.2, and this link explains how.

It is very simple to do, and it all seems to work fine, and I guess it might work for other "unsupported" printers too. Thanks to cblue for making this info available, and no thanks to Apple and Epson for keeping it a secret.

[robg adds: The referenced URL covers using the Option key to access the "hidden" menu in the Advanced section of the Print Center. We have run a number of hints concerning this hidden panel, though none seem to address this general subject of using it to enable unsupported printers.]
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Use an Epson 2500 printer in 10.2
Authored by: Sly on Jun 25, '03 01:22:34PM

I'm going to try this but if you are thinking about Gimp Print it's easy to install. The previous version had an OS X installer package and configuration was a snap.

The advantage for me is that I can then use Gimp Print as the ase driver for several printers. Also on some printers Gimp Print enables features which are not normally available.



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Use an Epson 2500 printer in 10.2
Authored by: dfdietrick on Jun 26, '03 10:24:39AM

Also, VueScan will work with that scanner.



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Use an Epson 2500 printer in 10.2
Authored by: sreubart on Jul 01, '03 04:56:25PM

I can verify that the SS2500 works fine in 10.2 as long as you set it up properly. I used Gimp-Print and it worked fine. I also purchased VueScan so I could use the scanning features, but then Epson released the TWAIN driver and I've been using that with Photoshop 7 ever since. The TWAIN driver is less powerful than VueScan, but also simpler to use.

Don't be afraid of Gimp-Print. It looks confusing but it really works quite well as long as you follow the instructions carefully.



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Use an Epson 2500 printer in 10.2
Authored by: baltwo on Jul 02, '03 07:25:55PM

Note that the link is a bit dated and that you can select either the EPSON New Stylus Color Series CUPS v1.1 or the EPSON Stylus Color Series CUPS v1.1 option for this printer. OS X 10.2.6.



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Use an Epson 2500 printer in 10.2
Authored by: vsr on Aug 30, '03 01:48:24PM

I can't print adobe acrobat 5.0 documents with my ss2500 and mac os 10.2
can you help me?
please



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