Subject: Open question about printer problems
| Posted By: David_Baker
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| Posted On: 2/9/2007 4:01 AM
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I recently bought an Epson Stylus R1800 for my A3 prints, having read excellent reviews and also having decided not to buy a bigger printer and to leave producing my larger prints to my excellent London printer, and have immediately ploughed into problems in attempting to get it to work properly.
1. The software conflicts in some manner with other software on the system - first the main photo printing software, 'Epson File manager' and the print preparation programme Epson 'Dark Room' will load on screen only once and if closed for any reason refuse to load again unless the entire system is rebooted.
2. Under certain working conditions (as yet not pin-pointed) the programme manages to turn off my Netgear link to my wireless Home Hub, until the USB cable is dis- and then re-connected.
3. Whether using the Epson software, or other art/photography print programmes to print, and after half a dozen successful printings yesterday, the entire paper carriage feed system (and there are three separate sheet and one roller points of entry past the print After attempting to take in the paper, in some cases several times with my encouragement from the repeat process button, the system failed to work repeatedly issuing an on screen message informing me that the 'paper is out or loaded incorrectly'. And if I assisted by gently feeding in the paper to the mechanism the printer simply passes it through and ejects it.
I am extremely frustrated by this, as fellow D'Artians will imagine. And the prospect of using the remote and complicated on-line help system from the huge Epson Corperation leaves me feeling exhausted before I even begin.
I believe, both from this and past experiences with printers, that faulty/conflicting software links between printers and computers remains the most difficult to resolve of all those relating to 'peripherals'. And as to the paper throughput problem, I am absolutely clueless as to what this might be due to.
Has anyone else suffered from such problems with a printer - Epson or otherwise?
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