Re: EX and USB port?

[Tom Messenger <krist@thegrid.net>]

Not having enough grief lately, I decided to try USB with my new 900.
PCMagazine had reported many problems of the sort you mention with WIN95
but that WIN98 was supposed to be an improvement.  Since I'm using 98, I
went for USB (also to free up my parallel port for various other equipment).

Results: 100% satisfaction.  It does not SEEM to matter whether or not the
printer is turned on when I boot up - it just comes up and works.  I'm not
at the location now where the printer is so I can't report any driver
versions, etc. but so far, for me at least, it works great.

(I haven't tried using the parallel cable yet...)
Good luck!
Tom Messenger

At 02:52 PM 6/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>running a 1200 Photo stylus under Win98 from a powerful laptop with USB
>port.  Could not get the USB port connection to work - parallel worked fine.
>Then I unhooked the usb cable from the computer's port and re-hooked it and
>it worked fine.
>
>Strange.  I must turn everything on - then unhook the usb cable and re-hook
>it to make the Epson software see the printer.  Don't have this problem with
>the parallel cable.
>
>Epson claims that Microsoft sent an email to them warning of usb problems
>with hardware versions 01 or 001.  I have 001, but this seems more like an
>Epson software problem


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