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by Porsche917 on Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:41 am

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Friends:

Please be advised that there are new drivers for the Epson Stylus Pro 4880.
The new driver is v8.66.

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Roman

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by James McIntyre on Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:49 pm

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I already pointed out in my NSN post of April 20 (http://www.naturescapes.net/phpBB3/view ... 4&t=215893) that EPSON had recently released new drivers for their 48xx Stylus Pro printers. They are applicable with MAC OS 10.5.X-10.7.X. The new drivers are v8.64 and v8.66, replacing v6.11.

The download links are:

Epson 4800 (v8.64, 09/16/11:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/supp ... =Macintosh

Epson 4880 (v8.66, 02/17/12):
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/supp ... =Macintosh

EPSON has not updated their WINDOWS drivers for the 38xx and 48xx series printers since 2007.

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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:20 pm

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It's not Apple and Microsoft that release these drivers, it's Epson!

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by James McIntyre on Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:07 pm

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Quite right, EJ. That was dumb. I must have been getting sleepy. I've fixed the text.

Question is, who writes them?

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by E.J. Peiker on Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:14 pm

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Epson writes them. There hasn't been a need for an update on the Windows side since vista 64 came out since Win 7 is basically Vista 64 2.0.

Mac OS-X has undergone some major changes with Lion and now Mountain Lion necessitating a rewrite of the drivers.

That's why Epson has released mac drivers and not Win drivers.

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by James McIntyre on Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:39 pm

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Thanks for the helpful clarification.

I'm sure the printer manufacturers want to keep their driver algorithms secret.

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