Epson 460,660 etc

I've recently had loads of customers who have bought these printers reporting problems withs out of paper errors and communication errors.

It was after the third call the pattern emerged !

They all had scanners. It would seem that the new Epson drivers hate it if you have a scanner installed and throw up all sorts of errors.

The solution ?

Uninstall all Twain drivers and scanner software.

Uninstall Printer

Reboot

Reinstall Printer

Reboot

Reinstall Scanner

Success

This problem seems to paticulary affect Plustek Scanners

I have noticed a trend towards people buying
good brand name printers, and using brand name cartridges, but then they go and purchase very low buck cables and have all kind's of problems...go figure.

I see your point, but if the printer companies saw fit to actually provide the flipping thing, then maybe some problems wouldn't ever arise.

Thats like buying a car without a steering wheel

another little tip with Epson printers if a parralel scanner is being used, is not to install the Epson Status Monitor. This is what causes the communication problems for some reason. If a SCSI or USB scanner is used, everything seems to work fine with it.

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I agree with darren, but the problem with the 660 drivers is you don't get a choice about it. Still, you can always disable it.

A $15 parallel port card configured as LPT2 is the best solution I know of.

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Altoplanos Information Systems, Inc.
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