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You could try this hack  that was kindly passed to me by one Bob Smith and that has given my Epson 1290 a different life with the 1270 drivers. Be prepared (unless you are a better hacker than me) to be limited to the functions of the driver that you have hacked and check that the inksets will produce the colours that you are expecting. The 1270/1290 inks are one and the same so no problem there. 

Cheers, Pete 

Yes, with a bit of ResEdit hacking you can get it to work.  I did it to get a 1280 working under PressReady.  Below is a copy of an old post I saved from the ColorSync list that explains how to do it.  Thanks to Rick Gordon for the nice detailed explanation 

---------------------------------- Try this, which has worked for me in making PressReady drive the 875DC from an 870 driver, modified as I would expect for the 1270->1290 change. Work on a copy of your files. 

1) Start with a PressReady installation for the 1270. 

2) Make a copy of the Chooser-level driver; in my case I copied the driver named "PR Epson 1270 (U)" and renamed the copy "PR Epson 1290 (U)". If you're not using the USB driver, make the analogous changes on the driver you're using. 

3) Using a resource editor, I changed all of the following references to the 870 in it: 

 a) PAPA -1892: Change name to "PR Epson 1290" 

 b) STR -4081: "Stylus Photo 1290" 

 c) STR -4098: "Devices:device-tree:PRINTER:Stylus Photo 1290" 

 d) STR -8140: "PR EPSON 1290 (U)" 

 e) STR -8185: "PR EPSON 1290 (U) Prefs" 

 f) TEXT -8165: Make the following changes at the beginning of the resource: 

    *Product: "(Stylus Photo 1290)"     *ModelName: "EPSON 1290 (PressReady)"     *ShortNickName: "EPSON 1290 (PressReady)"     *NickName: "EPSON Stylus Photo 1290 (PressReady)" 

4) Make a copy of the printer description named "Epson 1270 (PressReady)" and rename it to "Epson 1290 (PressReady)". 

5) Using a resource editor that will allow access to the data fork or a text editor that won't trash the resource fork on resaving, and make the following changes, all obvious and near the beginning of the file: 

    *Product: "(Stylus Photo 1290)"     *ModelName: "EPSON 1290 (PressReady)"     *ShortNickName: "EPSON 1290 (PressReady)"     *NickName: "EPSON Stylus Photo 1290 (PressReady)" 

That's it. You should then be able to choose the printer via the "PR Epson 1290 (U)" driver in the Chooser, and create a desktop printer.