Epson Stylus Color 600

Epson Color Stylus 600

The day treatment center for developmentally-disabled adults has had this printer since it was new. It has always been connected through a parallel scanner (first a Umax Astra 610P and then a Hewlett-Packard 3200C Scanjet.) Recently it has been giving me false "paper out" messages, false "printer off-line" messages, printing half a page and continuing the bottom half on the next sheet, or getting "stuck" on one line. I have been wasting an average of one sheet out of three. I've tried connecting it directly to the computer -- no change. I've run through all the suggestions at the Epson site and at the H-P site -- no change. I've swapped parallel cables -- no change. I've changed to more recent drivers for both the printer and the scanner -- no change. The printer works fine on another computer and a swapped H-P inkjet works fine on the computer that normally has the Epson.

Any ideas would be welcome at this point!

Thanks.

Alan

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Check the Parallel Port Mode in BIOS.

Your setting should be either, Bi-Directional or EPP.

by unknown on Oct 16, 2002 at 12:46pm Add comment

Unfortunately, "been there, done that." It makes no difference at all.

But since I posted, the printer went into a classroom and is running fine on another computer. I was able to do that because somebody had just donated an Epson 880. I got the drivers for the 880, cleaned it up a bit, and it's running fine.

Thanks for the reply.

Alan

by unknown on Oct 16, 2002 at 1:53pm Add comment

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