Digital BW, The Print

Bob, I think you're the "winner" in that when I reinstalled the status 
monitor, I lost the "communications error" pop-up, and it printed to 
completion. Either that, or bypassing the spooler worked. Yeah, I know, 
changing two things at once is a no-no, but it's late, and I'm tired. 
I'll reinstate the spooler tomorrow and see what happens.

But I think it was the status monitor. Very peculiar problem.

I should point out, as if anyone cares, that I've never had this problem 
with a RIP. But then, the RIP people are about selling RIPs, while Epson 
is really about selling paper and inks. Shouldn't surprise us that their 
software is of questionable quality, and yet it does....

Thanks to everyone for their help.

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Hogarth Hughes


Bob Frost wrote:

>I think it is usually best to uninstall and reinstall both, since the status 
>monitor is responsible for a lot of the communication that goes on. If you 
>are installing from the original CD, it usually installs both automatically, 
>but if you are installing from a separate downloaded driver file, you need 
>both files - the driver file and the status monitor file.
>
>If you uninstall the 'Epson Printer Software' in Add/Remove programs' it 
>uninstalls both I think.
>
>Anyhow, it's another possibility eliminated.
>
>Bob Frost.
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Hogarth Hughes" <hogarth@...>
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>>Just the driver. Does it need the status monitor reinstalled too?
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