According to the last post on this page, Epson now provides direct support for the Axis 1440 print server. I have closed this page for comments, but am leaving it up for historical reasons. Here are notes from Hal:

I got the driver from this page: 8282&BV_UseBVCookie=yes&infoTypeownloads&platform=Macintosh>

I see now that it doesn’t say anything about the Axis 1440, but it worked for me. It is called “Macintosh OS X (v10.1) epson10396.sea.hqx – 3.4MB – posted on 08/06/02″

I have only been using OS X (10.2. for a couple of days now but I think that once the driver was downloaded and installed, I went to the “print center”, clicked on Add, and chose EPSON Appletalk from the topmost pulldown menu. I suppose printing to an IP address would be faster; the Appletalk on
Ethernet is not so bad.

If Epson no longer offers this driver, I will try to post one here.

The origin of these instructions are the quite detailed notes Bernard Saar contributed to the Macintosh support forums <http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?13@@.efc404a/13>. My intentions in creating this page is to simply flesh out in more detailed, step-by-step fashion, the wealth of information he and others have kindly provided.

If you are an X-windows user on your Mac, you may want to try setting your Mac up for printing using "gimp-print" instead. It offers a highly polished interface, and full feature implementation for monitoring and configuring your Epson.

I also need to make it clear that even though I am trying to make these instructions as clear as possible, they cannot stand in for a basic understanding of the *NIX command line. That should not dissuade you; it should only mean that you spend some hours learning how to move around a *NIX file system, enter path names and do some basic commands. You should also understand what su and sudo mean (and how dangerous they are). Taking the time before you begin to get the basic concepts down is invaluable. With the power to make these kinds of modifications comes a certain responsibility to self-education. Look for online tutorials on BSD and "tcsh". Or you can go to the MacOSX.org command line interface tutorial.

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