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Recently published Apple patents describe steps towards driverless printing for Mac OS X, iOS devices

In a pair of recent filings, Apple proposed methods that would eliminate the necessity of printer drivers in order to streamline the printing process for users of its Mac OS X and iOS devices. The first of the two patent applications, entitled “Walk-Up Printing Without Drivers,” reveals methods of circumventing the printer driver requirement when […]

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Apple releases updated Epson, Lexmark printer drivers

They’re not the most exciting updates in the world, but they help keep your print jobs running. Per Macworld, late Thursday, Apple updated drivers aimed at hardware from Epson and Lexmark. The Epson 2.7 Printer Drivers update installs the latest software for both printers and scanners from Epson. The 961.5MB download requires Mac OS X […]

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Magic Trackpad News Software

Apple releases Magic Trackpad driver for Windows XP, Vista and 7 operating systems

Late Wednesday, Apple released a software update that allows the Windows operating systems to use its new Magic Trackpad input device. The update, which is available as a 7 megabyte download for the 32-bit version and a 4 megabyte download for the 64-bit version, adds the driver where needed. The update requires Windows XP, Vista […]

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Apple releases Epson printer drivers 2.4, HP printer drivers 2.4.1 for Snow Leopard users

Late Wednesday, Apple released updated sets of Snow Leopard drivers for Hewlett-Packard and Epson printers and scanners. Per Macworld, the first is version 2.4 of the Epson drivers, which comes in a package listed on Apple’s download page at a whopping 737MB; Epson Printer Drivers 2.4 provides updated compatibility between Mac OS X 10.6 or […]

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Nvidia releases Mac OS X 10.6.4-compatible driver for GTX-285 graphics card

This is sort of interesting. With the recent release of the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update, assorted users have complained of conflicts with some of Nvidia’s graphics cards. Responding to this, Nvidia has released a new suite of graphics drivers for the GTX-285 graphics card. The driver, a 20.87 megabyte download, is listed for OS […]