Epson C82 acting weird after migrating to XP Professional

[Gary]

I've been using an Epson C82 under Windows 98 SE and its worked
perfectly.

Last week, I installed Windows XP Professional on the same machine (no
change of hardware).

I also installed the latest version of the Epson C82 driver for XP.

Printing short documents in seems to work ok. However, when it
prints, a larger document such as a Word document or an image file, it
prints just fine - at first, but then about 1/2 way though the page,
the page form feeds, and then starts printing page after page of
garbage characters on the top of each page.

Epson tech support first said XP has a known problem with C82, but
gave me no more guidance. Microsofts web site says nothing about
this.

I've changed the parallel port to EPP, and changed the swap files to a
fixed size as suggested by some other people... so far, no
improvement.



HELP!!!

 

[Arthur Entlich]

I'm guessing, but assuming you have a large enough spooling area (this
differs from a swap file space). I believe XP has the spooling file
space on your C drive, and it needs a space that is relatively
defragged. If the Windows swap file area, and Photoshop's scratch disk
are all on the same disk, there may not be adequate space for the
spooling area.

Other than this, there may be something else that is trying to access
the data stream that is interfering with the data stream. That could be
a program that runs behind the scenes.

I will try to find out more and let you know if I find a logical cause.

Art

 

[Mister Max]

(e-mail address removed) (Gary) posted:

I've been using an Epson C82 under Windows 98 SE and its worked
perfectly.

Last week, I installed Windows XP Professional on the same machine (no
change of hardware).

I also installed the latest version of the Epson C82 driver for XP.

Printing short documents in seems to work ok. However, when it
prints, a larger document such as a Word document or an image file, it
prints just fine - at first, but then about 1/2 way though the page,
the page form feeds, and then starts printing page after page of
garbage characters on the top of each page.

Epson tech support first said XP has a known problem with C82, but
gave me no more guidance.

I had a similar problem with XP and the C80, the predecessor to the C82
that I have. Epson support told me to uninstall the printer driver,
install the latest driver and uninstall the Status Monitor that tells how
much ink you have left. I did this, and now I can print without the
single-line garbage; one of these days I'll run out of ink in the middle
of a page.

Hope you can get some help from this.

- Max


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[thigmo]

(e-mail address removed) (Gary) posted:


I had a similar problem with XP and the C80, the predecessor to the C82
that I have. Epson support told me to uninstall the printer driver,
install the latest driver and uninstall the Status Monitor that tells how
much ink you have left. I did this, and now I can print without the
single-line garbage; one of these days I'll run out of ink in the middle
of a page.

Hope you can get some help from this.

- Max

I had a similar problem with a cx5200 (the all-in-one version of
the c82) that wouldn't print larger files (e.g. photos). Epson
Connection e-mailed me a solution:

Go to the printer's properties (under Settings/Control Panel) and
turn off "Enable advanced printing features" in the Advanced tab.
Hit apply, restart, and that should do it.

Mind you, I've got Windows 2000, so YMMV. Good luck.

thigmo