Re: Status Monitor Locking Me Out!

[Michael Greer <mgreer316@yahoo.com>]

Bob,

I'm at a loss. I uninstalled the status montior and everything works as I need
it to work. But I don't know what my ink levels are. I reinstalled the status
monitor and I have my ink levels back, but then I'm locked out again. All
driver settings look right. Plus, simply by uninstalling and reinstalling the
status monitor, the driver settings don't change. So one would think that if
I'm locked out with the status monitor, I should be locked out without it. But
this isn't the case.

So right now, I'm just going to drive without it.

--- Bob Frost <bobfrost@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> 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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