Digital BW, The Print

This is a bit off topic, but hopefully this will quickly solve your 
problem.

I have installed Epson C84, C86, C880, and 1280 printers as shared 
network printers in a Windows Environment using printer servers from 
4 different manufacturers, including Epson.  Print servers are 
necessary since these models do not have a built-in network 
interface.  I have used both USB and parallel printer ports.  They 
always work with one exception:  you cannot read back the printer 
ink levels or any other printer status with the exception of a 
generic paper error.

The reason, according to more than one printer and server 
manufacturer, is that there is no standard way to communicate 
printer status to/from the print server and the printer.  This made 
sense when combining an Epson printer with a non-Epson server, but 
I had the same problem when I tried to connect my 1280 to the 
network using the Epson print server.

My conclusion was that it is not possible to get full printer 
functionality over a network unless the printer has a built-in 
network interface.  The only other option I know, in a Windows 
environment, is to connect the printer to a computer and then allow 
that computer to share the printer with other computers on the 
network .  That works.

Bob

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "maddoxmb" 
<maddoxmb@...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have their R2400 Printer set up as a shared network 
printer?  Are you doing this 
> on a Mac OSX computer accessing with another Mac OSX computer?  I 
spent about 10 hours 
> yesterday attempting to get this to work with no luck.  I'm just 
trying to see if I am barking 
> up the wrong tree?
>