Today I was greeted by yet another software update. I guess the programmers at Apple are working around the clock and drinking plenty of Jolt and Red Bull! This morning I was alerted to an Epson Printer Updater. If you’ve read some of my earlier posts, I had to rig up some workarounds for my Epson printer when printing to CDs. As of yesterday I had resigned myself to it never working the same way again.
So, I installed the Epson update anyway (and it didn’t even need a reboot) and I started up my Epson PrintCD software. Of course it didn’t work. But I did remember reading that with past updates, to get the Epson printer working correctly, you had to go to the File menu in PrintCD and choose “Update Printer Information.” This should take 2-3 minutes as it reads the configuration out of the printer.
Well, imagine my surprise when after the update, everything worked again! Yea Apple! So now, when I choose to print on a CD, I get all my normal printing options. Apple can check that one off the list!
Good news on the backup front as well. I upgraded my copy of Dantz Retrospect to the newest patcher. And my backup has been running without a hitch every night for the past 3 nights. I am backing up my local drives and both AFP and SMB shares on a Windows 2000 server.
So, for the time being I am placated. The normal things that I need to do with my Mac are working well. I have some minor issues with Screen Sharing that I will troubleshoot and report on later, but nothing that prevents me from working on my Mac…but I still have my entire hard drive with Tiger loaded on it sitting on my desk. Just in case.
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