Epson printer won't work as a network printer?

[AndyHo]

We have an Epson 500 colour printer and it's refusing to work as a network printer. It is quite happy to install as a network printer but stops short of working. (It works fine from it's "host" computer.)

Anyone got any ideas.

We have experimented with printer port capture but without success.

Andy Holden

 

[Zelandakh]

If you have an Epson network card you will need to configure it. Use the Epson Net utility.

Not sure what you mean by host computer. Do you mean it is a non networked printer that is an LPT1 for the host? If so, just share the printer via file and printer sharing.

Zel

 

[ray436]

After sharing the printer, try installing it on the other PC's as if it were local (LPT1), then after it is installed, change the port to the networked PC it is actually connected to.

One of Epsons' does this and all of our Minoltas' do it.

Ray

 

[bdux]

If you are sharing the printer out from a W95 workstation you need to setup the printer sharing under networking in control panel There is a box to tick called share out printers . You need the win95 CD as it will ask you for it after you tick the box .
Add the printer as a local printer and then right click on the printer in printer control panel and select sharing . You should see this printer in network neighbour hood on the other P.C's
If it is NT you add printer as local printer then share it out .
Go to other P.C's select printers - add printers but select a network printer then select browse network you should see the printer on the computer name it is connected and shared out on if set up properly . When you add the printer it will copy across the network the driver files from the p.c sharing the printer out from a hidden share called print$.If you need dos programs to print to it use the capture option in adding printer lets you capture lpt1 to go to the network printer .
I do this stuff often with the network I maintain .

 

[dpaulson]

I had this happen to a HP Officejet that I have. The problem that I had was that the drivers for the Officejet was for bidirectional communication, which didn't work when used as a network printer. I installed a driver off of the win95 cd of a destjet printer which then worked well (I just can't use it for scanning anymore). Maybe something similar will fix for you.
David Paulson