Re: Status Monitor Locking Me Out!

[SKID Photography <skid@bway.net>]

Michael,
There should be someplace that allows you to set 'background printing' to allow other functions to carry on while printing.  Unfortunately, I can't remember where one sets that, but it should be in your original instruction manual.

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC

> Gang,
>
> I've been using Epson printers for almost a decade and I've never experienced
> this problem before. It's happening with my 1270 and 2000P when printing from
> any application. When I print, I can't continue to use the application that
> I've printed from until the print job is finished. When I try to click on the
> application window, I get the Window's "bong" sound letting me know I'm trying
> to do something that is not acceptable. In other words, while the job is
> printing I'm locked out from the application that initiated it, but not other
> apps (I'm running Win XP).
>
> Now, this was not a problem until I reinstalled the Epson Status Monitor 3. The
> monitor was not displaying ink levels, so I downloaded the latest version from
> Epson's web site and installed it. Now I get the ink levels, but I can't
> continue to use the initiating program until the print job is finished. Is
> there a switch that needs to be flicked somewhere? If so, where is it? I've
> looked everywhere. This is drving me nuts.
>
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