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More info?)
Arthur,
Thank you for your help.
I've followed your instruction. I've now chosen IRQ5 for my printer and
it's ECP/EPP in the BIOS.
The behavior now is:
When I tried printing the test page, the spool manager first complained that
the printer was out of paper. It then started printing. After printing out
the windows 98 logo, it then dumped some gibberish out. Then the paper was
blurted out and the printer loaded another paper, then something
unrecognisable was printed on the paper, but very sparingly, and the paper
was blurted out. It then loaded another, and another. I had to press the
power button to turn off the printer to prevent it from keeping on printing
something on the paper and hten blurted it out.
When I tried printer like ABCDEFG from Word, the paper was advanced to a
certain position, and it then did nothing, for a very long time (10min). I
had to press the load paper button to get the paper out. And nothing was
printed.
At my neighbor's WinXP, only one single page was used as expected for the
test page.
So this is the behavior. (The printer is very low on black ink though.
This shouldn't be causing all this problem, right?)
I haven't uninstalled the IrDA adapter as I will need to connect to my
mobile phone more often than to use my printer (I can always use the laser
printer at work).
Hope you can help me further.
Thank you very much.
Herbert
"Arthur Entlich" <artistic@telus.net> ¦b¶l¥ó
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> I just was on the Epson US website and noted that the drivers are in a
> self extracting file (indicated below). There is also a patch if you
> have and wish to use the special Epson Parallel to USB converter.
>
> Since this file will self-extract, you do NOT need to follow my original
> instructions.
>
> Instead, just download the file indicated here from the Epson website:
>
> [-] Printer Driver v2.2IES
> Windows 3.1, Windows 98, Windows 95
> SC822IES.EXE - 2MB - posted on 07/23/98
>
> Again, make sure to place it somewhere you can find it on your harddrive
> when you download it.
>
> Then locate it on your hard drive, and double click on the icon.
>
> A box will show up which explains the file will be extracted onto your
> C\Epson\ folder. Click on OK, and a second box will open which explains
> the files will be written to the C\EPSON folder and that then Setup.exe
> will automatically be run. leave both these boxes checked as they are by
> default. Click on the "UNZIP" button. Then the folder will be created on
> your C drive, if it doesn't already exist, and the setup program will
> start and just follow the prompts and it will install the driver for
> your printer.
>
> Art
>
>
>
> Herbert Chan wrote:
>
> > Cari,
> >
> > Thank you for your help. But my OS is Win98SE.
> >
> > Do I also need to disconnect the printer before installing the driver?
> > Could you give me a detailed instruction?
> >
> > I'm totally at a loss at the moment.
> >
> > Herbert
> >
> > "Cari" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> |b?l¢Do
> > news:rbL5d.35$Yr.2@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net ?????g...
> >
> >>"Herbert Chan" <herbert@chan.com> wrote in message
> >>news:2rp9aiF1dmb03U1@uni-berlin.de...
> >>
> >>>Hello,
> >>>
> >>>I have an Epson Stylus Color 800 and haven't been able to print lately.
> >>>
> >>>I've tried the printer at my neighbor with my cable, and it worked. So
> >
> > it
> >
> >>>must be somethign wrong with my pc instead.
> >>>
> >>>Before testing it at my neighbor, the pc complained that the printer
was
> >>>offline. Now, it seemed to be able to communicate with the printer,
but
> >>>it
> >>>at first reported that the printer was out of paper, and then some
> >>>rubbish/gibberish was blurted out, instead of the test page that i was
> >>>trying to print.
> >>>
> >>>So now I want to remove all the printer drivers and start afresh. I've
> >>>previously also downloaded some other printer drivers for this same
> >>>printer
> >>>and I want to remove them as well.
> >>>
> >>>I can use the Epson uninstall program to remove the original Epson
> >
> > Stylus
> >
> >>>Color 800 driver, but I don't know how to remove the extra printer
> >
> > drivers
> >
> >>>that I have installed into my pc.
> >>>
> >>>Please also tell me what else I should do to get my printer working
with
> >>>my
> >>>pc again.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks.
> >>>
> >>>Herbert
> >>>
> >>
> >>See my site at:
> >>http://www.coribright.com/Windows/Article%20One.htm
> >>--
> >>Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
> >>www.coribright.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>