Epson Printers and Windows XP

kvrosse · Aug 26, 2014

I am in the process of researching Epson's line of all-in-one printers to replace my current HP model (garbage). This will be in a home WI-FI environment where at least one PC is still running XP SP-2. The only XP 32 bit OS listed in their system requirements is SP-3. Without going into why, I do not want to upgrade the machine, at all. I have 4 other PCs on the network that range from XP SP3 to Windows 8.

My question is, will there be a problem with the SP-2 machine? I would like to be able to print from it until I can phase it out. I posed this same question to Epson tech support and received a canned non-answer. If anyone can give me a realistic answer i would appreciate it.

Thanks.

ex_bubblehead · Aug 26, 2014

They only list XP SP3 because that's the only configuration in which the drivers have been tested and certified. They may or may not work with SP2 but you're entirely on your own if you want to use them there.

sdfox 7 · Aug 26, 2014

Pretty much every developer still supports XP Service Pack 2. This is because there was no Service Pack 3 for XP 64-bit.

Adobe Reader, Apple iTunes, Java (excluding 8), Netflix streaming with Silverlight, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc the list goes on and on-- they all list Service Pack 2+ in their system requirements.

There was nothing earth-shattering released in SP3 (unlike SP2), so I can't see what dependencies there would be that would prevent you from installing on SP2.

As ex-bubblehead stated, Epson is likely just telling you that SP2 hasn't been supported in 4 years so if you have a problem you are on your own.

kvrosse · Dec 28, 2014

I purchased the printer and it works fine on all my windows machines. thanks for your responses. much appreciated,

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