Epson r2880 printing problem with Photoshop CS5

[Glenn McCreery]

<p>I have a problem printing from Photoshop CS5 on my Epson r2880 printer connected to my Mac Pro running the latest Snow Leopard OS. Printing starts and gets about a quarter the way through when it quits and gives me a "communication error" message. Every once in a while it prints properly which gives me false hope that the problem is solved. I assumed that it was a driver problem so I removed the driver and reinstalled it, didn't work, so I downloaded the latest driver from Epson. Same problem. Then I tried printing using Photoshop CS2. Works fine as does printing on my backup cheap Canon printer. Has anyone seen this problem before? Is this a problem with CS5 or with the driver? It is not a big problem since I can edit in CS5 and print in CS2, but I am curious.</p>

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[colin_mattson1]

<p>Nine times out of ten, "communication error" is a bad cable. I'd start there.</p>

[Glenn McCreery]

<p>Thanks Colin. I will try a new cable and report back.</p>

[kfoster70]

<p>Try deleting the driver and installing the one from Apple instead of the one from Epson.</p>

[Glenn McCreery]

<p>Kevin. I tried that and got the same result.</p>

[patricklavoie]

<p>I strangely have the sme problem since last week with my Imac 27, CS5 and my 7880... cable have been change, driver reinstall... same thing.. i send 3 different print, sometime the first one work, then in the middle of the second one i got this problem.. Try CS4, all is fine for a time, then suddendly bam.. again out of no where.</p>

<p>I plug the same cable on my macbook pro, use CS4 or CS5, same printer.. all is fine.</p>

<p>Must be one of the new update i have done recently via the system update...</p>

[Glenn McCreery]

<p>I, like Patrick, tried a new cable and it made no difference. Same problem with CS5. Still works OK with CS2 but I am holding my breath expecting Patrick's intermittent problem.</p>