Epson Xp-312 Printer Driver And EPSON

Epson Xp-312 Printer Driver And EPSON

This combo package installer obtains and installs the following items: Printer Driver v9.81 Scanner Driver and EPSON Scan Utility v4.0.2.0 ICA Driver Epson Easy Photo Print Epson Event Manager Epson Software Updater Installation instructions: Download the file.

Double-click the downloaded file to create a disk image on your desktop.

Installation instructions: Double-click to create a disk image on your desktop.

Double-click the installer icon to begin the update process.

Note: The EPSON Scan or Epson Scan 2 Utility must be installed prior to using the Event Manager Utility.

Notes: This firmware update should only be used if your printers control panel displays a Recovery Mode error.

Make sure no other USB devices are connected to the computer during the update process.

Do not unplug, power-off or attempt to use the printer during the update process.

I was still using the Apple-supplied driver because simply downloading and installing the software from the printer vendors website does not change the selection in System Preferences.

I recently purchased a new Epson AIO inkjet printer, the 2014 WF-4630.

And finding the solution to it led me down a road that is relevant to the owner of almost any printer on the market today.

The printers setup was easy.

Super easy. In fact, to connect to and use the printer over Wi-Fi, you dont have to install any new software.

The printer driver shows up in the Printers Scanners Preferences pane automatically.

Still, I installed Epsons software (downloaded from their website) so that I had access to updated printer firmware and other printer-specific utilities (such as for scanning).

This didnt change the selected Epson printer driver, but it did add other software to my Applications folder.

And I wasuntil I wanted to fiddle with the printers color settings.

I knew to expect a Color Options item in the Print dialogs menu.

My first thought: Perhaps I wasnt using the latest printer software.

I knew not to depend on any software included on the CD that came with the printer, as it could already be obsolete.

But I had already installed the latest software and updated firmware from the Epson website, so I was confident that this was not the problem.

Here I found an entirely separate Epson Printer Software Update 2.18.

I installed this as well.

I deleted and reinstalled the printer driver from System Preferences Printers Scannersstill to no avail.

To be clear, none of this prevented me from using the printer.

It was one that I should have known, as I had previously confronted a similar situation with my HP laser printer: I needed to switch drivers.

Because, as it turns out, for most printers today, you have a choice of two different printer drivers.

The first driver is maintained by Apple (in conjunction with the printer vendor presumably) as part of OS X.

Its also the one that appears automatically by default if you dont install any vendor-specific software.

You can typically identify this driver because it will have -AirPrint at the end of its name, indicating its compatibility with this OS X printing feature.

An Apple support article confirmed this: If the printer is AirPrint-compatible, OS X adds it without downloading and installing any additional software.

The second driver is the one that is obtained from the vendor directly, as I did when I went to Epsons website.

The problem is that only this vendor-specific driver offers support for all of the printers features.

Epson Xp-312 Printer Driver For Mac