Digital BW, The Print

The answer turns out to be (drum roll please)... the status monitor. I 
reinstalled it, and the system is running just like it was before, 
through the spooler. Everything is the same - both the driver and status 
monitor are, and were, the latest version.

Something killed some part of the status monitor. Ain't computers grand?

Hogarth Hughes


Hogarth Hughes wrote:

>I normally print B&W on a 7600. The PC (win2k) communicates to it over 
>Ethernet. But I've got a tiny bit of color work to do, so I borrowed a 
>2200 printer. My only choices for connecting to it are parallel or USB, 
>so naturally I picked on USB.
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>I spent a couple of days getting it installed, what with OS upgrades 
>(win2k, fully patched), loading the driver from the Epson website, doing 
>the funny little dance if you have a certain "hot fix" patch installed, 
>etc. But, I got it to work. It's been printing fine for a couple of weeks.
>
>Today it printed fine too, for a while. Then I switched images. When I 
>tried to print this image, the first time it got half way through and 
>quit. No errors. Nothing in the event log. It left no clues. Second try, 
>same thing. It got about half an inch farther along this time.
>
>I played with the USB cable (plug and unplug), rebooted the printer and 
>the computer. Now when I try to print from Photoshop, I get a 
>"communication error" pop-up. Still nothing in any of the logs to give 
>me a clue as to what is actually wrong.
>
>Finally, I deleted the printer and did a reinstall of the printer 
>driver. Same symptom.
>
>I've run through all my ideas. Would any of you 2000 / windows / USB 
>users please tell me what you think could be causing this?
>
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>Hogarth Hughes
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