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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Hogarth Hughes 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:21 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] 2200 USB "communication error"


  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.

  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?

  --
  Hogarth Hughes


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hogarth Hughes" <hogarth@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] 2200 USB "communication error"


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.

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?

--
Hogarth Hughes



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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?

>Did you change paper ? 
>It seems to me like the printer is not driving the paper correctly, rollers ? motor ? It is mechanical not software nor connection.
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Hogarth Hughes 
>  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
>  Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:21 PM
>  Subject: [Digital BW] 2200 USB "communication error"
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>  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.
>
>  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?
>
>  --
>  Hogarth Hughes
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>I forgot - did you reinstall the Epson Status monitor as well as the driver? 
>Or only the driver?
>
>Bob Frost.
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Hogarth Hughes" <hogarth@...>
>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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>The usual two things that are suggested for this type of problem, are:-
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>1    have you defragged your hard drive to which the printer spool files are 
>copied?
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>2    have you tried reinstalling the driver?
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>You've done 2, but have you done 1?
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>I had a most peculiar problem recently, a friend had an image that wouldn't 
>completely print, so I was asked to have a look. I did 1 and 2 above - no 
>change. I spent ages trying various things, but to no avail. Finally I 
>cropped about 1/4" off the edge of the image (all round). It printed! It 
>wasn't just the size, because reducing the whole image by 1/4" didn't cure 
>it. Any ideas on that one would be appreciated.
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Hogarth Hughes" <hogarth@...>
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>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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From: "Hogarth Hughes" <hogarth@...>

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> Just the driver. Does it need the status monitor reinstalled too?

From: "Hogarth Hughes" <hogarth@...>


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> Just defragged. No change.
>
> Can one bypass the spooler and send the file from Photoshop to the
> printer directly? Would it matter if one could?

>Perhaps obvious ... but have you tried swapping in another USB cable?  Then 
>go into the Windows printer manager, and try to do a test page.
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>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.
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>If you uninstall the 'Epson Printer Software' in Add/Remove programs' it 
>uninstalls both I think.
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>Anyhow, it's another possibility eliminated.
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>Bob Frost.
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>----- 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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From: "Hogarth Hughes" <hogarth@...>


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.