I had a similar situation with a Mac recently. Even Printer Setup Repair which is the Rolls Royce of this sort of thing didn't fix it. It turned out be a whole bunch files in the /Library/Printers/PPD's folder. Things like Photoshop plugins which someone had inadvertently drag & dropped in there. So when page setup was invoked the printing system tries get all of the possible PPD's and trying to read those odd files, just hangs. It's most likely something in this Library/Printers folder which isn't supposed to be there.
On 13/3/06 5:51 PM, "James Devenish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13/03/06, Severin Crisp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As before, Page Setup hangs as does an attempt to retrieve the >> printer information from Printer Setup. I have let Printer Setup >> Repair do its stuff to no avail. Interestingly, if I ignore Page >> Setup it will print or fax successfully. > > You've described the problem well. In addition to Rob's suggestions, > it could be an EPSON-specific problem: have you investigated their > technical support options? To help narrow this down, can you please > create a faux printer and see if it's Page Setup works or fails? To do > this, go into Printer Setup and choose the "IP Printer" icon. Leave it > on LPD, then choose 'localhost' for the address (I assume printer > sharing is turned OFF on the iMac), and for "Print Using", choose > "Generic PostScript Printer". Add this printer (optionally set it as > your default), and try Page Setup...what happens? > >> I have a horrible feeling that the advice is going to be a clean >> install of the system. > > I strongly doubt it's necessary. The problem is that if you're not > near anyone who can physical attend to your machine, "reinstall" is > simply the catch-all. However, as you suspect, if the problem is > corrupt preferences in your home directory then a reinstallation might > not provide any benefit. > > For corrupt preference, go to the folder Home > Library > Preferences > and look for files starting with "com.epson..." and > "com.apple.print...". You could move them to the trash, log out, log > back in, re-select your printer and see if there is any difference. > Also, reboot after setting up the EPSON printer in case the EPSON > software is not starting up properly. > > James. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
