HELP!!!! printer driver for Epson Stylus Pro 9600 Wide format

scottie83

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Oct 25, 2016
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Hi guys,
My dad and i have acquired an Epson stylus pro 9600 wide format printer but it did not come with an installation disc. i have tried downloading windows xp 64 bit printer driver and installing in compatability mode but for the life of me can not get it to recognise the printer. It will how ever work from the pc using the utilities menu, so we cas check printer nozzles and clean the head. It just wont print from any programsd we use. I.E vynil master and signmaster. Dad even bought another computer and had win 7 64 bit installed instead of 10 because he was told there was a driver for 7 which there isn't. sorry for the long story but we really need to get this printer going so we can use it.
Any help would be appreciated.

cheers
Scottie
 
Solution
Download the Vista drivers, and install them manually by extracting the files and then doing "update driver" from the printer options in Device Manager.

Morethan1

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Mar 21, 2017
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Morethan1

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Mar 21, 2017
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Have done as suggested and added a printer manually but when i get almost to the end it puts the printer name and says it will be installed with Epson Stylus 9600 Pro drivers and then goes into a loop always coming back to the same page and not finishingand if I cancel then no printer has been installed
 


Take a look at this post https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/printer-driver-not-installing-correctly-on-windows/796217fc-5b86-4dea-9656-73a3ff60ee61

Looks like that printer can work with newer Windows version, but needs some fiddling.