Monthly Archive for May, 2008Page 3 of 13

Success! I got my re­cently pur­chased Epson ME 1+ (sold in China only) work­ing with my Mac. It was made for Windows only, and Epson doesn’t have a Mac dri­ver for it. Thankfully there are peo­ple who play around with Linux and make free soft­ware. So if you’re in China and bought the cheap­est Epson printer you could find, here’s what you need to do:

1. Go to this page and down­load Foomatic-​​RIP and Ghostscript.
2. While they’re down­load­ing, go to this page and down­load us­btb.
3. Install Foomatic-​​RIP and Ghostscript first. Administrator priv­i­lege needed.
4. Then with your printer on and plugged to your Mac, in­stall usbtb.
5. Let us­btb de­tect the printer and try to find a dri­ver for it. It’ll fail.
6. Manually choose the Epson C46 dri­ver. Ignore usbtb’s warn­ing and proceed.

And that’s it! You now have a slow, crap­tas­tic printer that you wish would break so that you’d have an ex­cuse to get a bet­ter one. You’re welcome!

Originally got the tip from here.