Installing a printer over a network

[Robbie]

I have installed a printer over a network and am having trouble printing.
Windows XP.



The scenario is as follows:

A desktop with Epson all in one printer is installed locally attached by
USB. The printer is set to share over a network.

A laptop is networked to the same network as the Desktop PC

The printer driver is first installed on the laptop and then when finished
deleted from the printers folder.

Add a printer is selected from within Printers and install a network
printer.

Next Browse for a printer over network is selected. (The network is visible)

The printer can be seen and is selected and installed.

A test print is made from the laptop.

The test print appears as a job in the print queue on the host PC with
printer attached by USB.

However the job does not print. Jobs printed locally do print. Jobs printed
from laptop do not although each job
appears in the print queue. The jobs printed from the laptop will hold up
the queue and not allow any further jobs to
print regardless of where they came from.

When checking the printer settings on the laptop Virtual USB port is chosen.
I am not sure if this is right but there seems no other appropraite
choice.

Does anybody have any idea why this should not print,

Thank you very much for any advice in advance,

Robbie

 

[Rev. G.G. Willikers]

I have installed a printer over a network and am having trouble printing.
Windows XP.



The scenario is as follows:

A desktop with Epson all in one printer is installed locally attached by
USB. The printer is set to share over a network.

A laptop is networked to the same network as the Desktop PC

The printer driver is first installed on the laptop and then when
finished deleted from the printers folder.

Add a printer is selected from within Printers and install a network
printer.

Next Browse for a printer over network is selected. (The network is
visible)

The printer can be seen and is selected and installed.

A test print is made from the laptop.

The test print appears as a job in the print queue on the host PC with
printer attached by USB.

However the job does not print. Jobs printed locally do print. Jobs
printed from laptop do not although each job
appears in the print queue. The jobs printed from the laptop will hold
up the queue and not allow any further jobs to
print regardless of where they came from.

When checking the printer settings on the laptop Virtual USB port is
chosen. I am not sure if this is right but there seems no other appropraite
choice.

Does anybody have any idea why this should not print,

Thank you very much for any advice in advance,

Robbie

I had this happen with the same scenario last week.
After clicking OK to print, the Epson software pops up another print
preview window in the background that also needs confirmation to print.
This window does not pop up until the first page is spooled on the
receiving PC and sent to the printer. This preview window also pops up
BEHIND all of your open windows, so theres a good chance you wont see it
right away. It also takes as long as a few minutes to pop up, depending
on the size of the document.

It was driving me batty. BTW if you cancel the job directly from the
print queue that preview window disappears, and you never know it was
there in the first place.

Here's a link to a screenshot:

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/2874/epsonlm5.jpg

 

[Robbie]

Thank you for taking such time and trouble with your reply.

It took me several hours before I figured this out also. However when I
disabled print preview on the
host computer the jobs still sit there in the queue. Or am I missing
something from your explanation.

Thank you very much for your help,

Robbie

 

[Rev. G.G. Willikers]

Thank you for taking such time and trouble with your reply.

It took me several hours before I figured this out also. However when I
disabled print preview on the
host computer the jobs still sit there in the queue. Or am I missing
something from your explanation.

I tried this today. Worked straight away.

Delete the shared Epson printer in Network places.

Under another printer/ open properties>ports tab> delete any ports that
refer to the Epson on \\"remote pc name"

Run>regedit>
Go to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers

Remove any instance of the Epson Printer here.

from cmd prompt:

net stop spooler
net start spooler

REBOOT (essential)


goto

printers/Add printer/
select network printer>browse>select & finish the wizard.


I printed perfectly, with no delay after I did this.

I shut off Epson monitoring as well, afterwards.

still worked fine.


I know I went really basic, but I don't know what level of exp you have.

Let me know.