Epson driver "paper orientation" setting "sticks"

[Brackish Water]

Just curious if the following aggravation is a common problem with an easy
answer:

I work in Windows95 on an old but still reliable Epson Stylus Color 600. My
default paper orientation is "portrait." Whenever I have to print
"landscape" I change the settings from the print and printer settings menu
of whatever application I'm in. This invariably leads me to Epson driver
menus for doing so. The change, which I intend to be temporary for only the
current job, works and prints fine.

The problem occurs afterward. No matter whether I change to other
applications or re-boot the system, doing what I described above seems to
change the printer paper type default setting to landscape. Because my busy
mind is usually on other things, this results in at least one ruined print
out.

It gets even worse: when I go to change the paper orientation back to
portrait, same as I did to go to landscape, that change "takes" for only the
current job! I do it the same way I do to change from portrait to
landscape, which seems to make a permanent change; but changing it back
makes only a temporary change. Every time I go to a new application, I find
the driver default paper orientation has reverted to landscape.

It sometimes takes me several days of having to re-set the paper orientation
with every print job before one of the re-settings "takes" and the default
gets set back to portrait again. Yet every single time I go to landscape,
it changes the default. Arrgh.

Thanks to any who can post what I can do differently to make the
portrait-to-landscape a temporary change, or to make the
landscape-to-portrait a permanent change.

 

[Jim]

This is a Windows problem. More specifically, look at the printer settings
that you can read from the control panel. It could be that the Epson status
monitor is making that change behind your back.
Jim