" Just a note on the new Epson OSX drivers for the 2000P, I hooked up my old Axis 1440 Ethernet print server (purchased with my old 1270 from Epson) and it worked perfectly on the 2000P in OSX (and from classic in Photoshop 6.01) selecting the printer using the EpsonAppletalk via directory services in OSX.
Todd Buchanan
Corporate & Editorial Photojournalism
Chicago, the Midwest and beyond
Portfolio online @ http://www.toddbuchanan.com "

" Installed the Epson 900 driver for MacOS X. My 900 is on a network. The only option is to print using Appletalk - no TCP/IP printing options in the driver althought the printer's network card supports it.

It works, but painfully slowly from Powerbook G3 Lombard 400 MHz. One web page with color background too four minutes to print at the lowest quality level. Under OS 9, the original driver takes about 20 seconds.
I am quite disappointed.
Malcolm Duncan, CTO
ClearLearning "

" EPSON 900 OS X Driver
My experience was quite negative. So long as Classic is turned OFF, the driver works fine. When Classic is on (even with extensions turned off), the printer fails to connect propeerly. I'm going to reinstall my Epson 777 until a newer driver comes out or I'm all OS X.
Alice Plebuch "

(reports posted 11/6/2001 follow)

" mike:
just wanted to share some of my initial experiences with the newly release Epson drivers for the 2000p photo printer. everything seems to work just fine. installation was a snap and i was ecstatic to be able to print some photos without booting classic and Photoshop. the one thing missing that i took for granted was the option to make borderless prints from the roll feeder (rolls of 4x6 paper are outstanding for making snapshots for the family). and more than that, after trying to make a 4x6 print, the printer spewed about 3 feet of roll onto the floor before stopping. getting the paper back out of the printer should have been easy except when you don't remember how long to hold the button to get it to reverse feed.
just a few words of warning lest anyone think these new drivers are savvy enough to handle this.
scott "

A 875DCS owner noted the 875DC drivers didn't work with it. (I would have thought the would, less support for the card slot.)

" I've got an Epson 875DCS printer. I downloaded the 875DC printer driver in hopes it would drive the 875DCS. No luck, the printer center still says the 875DCS is an unsupported printer. I though the only difference in the two printers was the built-in card read, the DCS supporting memory sticks. I guess I'll have to wait and see if they release a DCS specific driver.
Thanks for maintaining your site, I visit it daily and have gleened much technical knowledge for it.
Mark "

I installed the Photo 870 drivers and did some limited tests printing in Appleworks 6.2.1 and they seemed to work fine. As noted before here, you have to select "Epson USB" instead of just USB. (BTW - Appleworks 6.2 really fills in a hole for me as far as OS X software. I've not used it a lot yet, but it looks to be the best $79 I've spent on software in a long time.)