To Use Your Printer With A Macintosh - Epson PRO 5500 Setup Manual

To use your printer with a Macintosh

To use this printer, your Apple
following system requirements. You also need a USB cable to
connect this printer to Apple Macintosh computers.
Minimum system
PowerPC
Mac OS 7.6.1
16 MB of available memory
20 MB of available memory when
background printing is turned on
Note:
The amount of available memory varies according to the number and
size of applications that are open. To see how much memory is
available, choose About This Macintosh from the Apple menu
and refer to the memory size (listed in kilobytes) under "Largest
Unused Block" (1,024 K = 1 MB).
The memory requirements above are for printing on Super A3/B size
paper. These requirements may vary depending on the size of the
paper, the type of application you are using, and the complexity of
the document you want to print.
The available interface varies according to Macintosh system
version as follows.
Network interface: 7.6.1 to 9.x
USB interface: 8.1 to 9.x
IEEE 1394 interface: 8.6.x to 9.x
In addition to these system and memory requirements, you also
need 12 MB of free hard disk space to install your printer software.
To print, 500 MB or more of free hard disk space is recommended.
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Macintosh must meet the
Recommended system
PowerPC G3 400 MHz or higher
processor
Mac OS 8.6.x or 9.x
42 MB or more of available
memory
70 MB of available memory when
background printing is turned on
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