Re: Status Monitor Locking Me Out!

["Bob Frost" <bobfrost@btopenworld.com>]

Mike,

It sounds as though the printer drivers are not spooling the print file so
that it prints in the background; it seems to be printing directly to the
printer, thus preventing you doing anything else while you are printing. I
can't think why the installation of the Status Monitor should have done
this, but the switch for spooling or printing direct is in the Advanced
section of the Printer Properties dialog (it is on my 1270). Check that this
is set to Spool and Start printing after first page is spooled, and not set
to Print direct to printer.

You may have already done this, and if so, I can't think of another reason
at the moment.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Greer" <mgreer316@yahoo.com>


> 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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