Snow Leopard will not print Epson 7900

Installed Apple’s new Snow Leopard at my print studio. It put an end to all printing on my Epson 7900, for a few hours.

I sent my first print thinking “Ahh Snow Leo, no Windows 7 for me”, then up pops some new printer icon with dumbed down driver values that did not make sense. And 0 bytes went over the wire. I will save you the curses and hours – here is the fix.

1. As Epson says,  go back to your Snow Leo disk to the optional package and install ONLY Rosetta.
2. Reinstall the latest Epson printer drivers. They don’t say that, but you will not get a print without it.
3. Reboot. They don’t say that, and you probably don’t have to. But it is good voodoo.

The hum in the background is my 7900 working away. Apple get is right and make an OS install for the rest of us. Artists.

Art Scientist Manifesto in Progress

Notes for digital artists presented at the Escondido Art Partnership June 13 2009.  - A set of inquiries about modern science and personal art. The notes are here.

TED Ideas

Looking for some evening entertainment? On your PC or your AppleTV catch up to TED- (Technology, Entertainment and Design) web videos of the conference held in Monterey California. It costs a fortune to get in, but the meeting is rich.  Podcasts to AppleTV are quite watchable. Many great technologists and thinkers provide personal demonstrations and insights into their latest area of work. A suprise this year is Al Gore’s 2008 presentation, stay for the Q&A. Almost as good as my favorite political blog Mark Brand.