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Monitoring Your Printer by Using EPSON Status Monitor 3

Accessing EPSON Status Monitor 3
Getting printer status details
Setting Monitoring Preferences
Status Alert window

EPSON Status Monitor 3 monitors your printer and gives you information about its current status.

Note for Windows XP users:

EPSON Status Monitor 3 is not available when printing from a Remote Desktop connection.

Accessing EPSON Status Monitor 3

Here is the way to access EPSON Status Monitor 3: Open the printer software, click the Utility tab, then click the EPSON Status Monitor 3 button.

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Getting printer status details

You can monitor printer status and obtain information on consumable products using the EPSON Status Monitor 3 dialog box.

Note:

The screen shot may vary depending on your printer.

1.	Icon/Message:	The icon and message show the printer status.
2.	Printer image:	The image shows the printer status graphically.
3.	Text box:	The text box displays the current status of the printer. When a problem occurs, the most probable solution is displayed.
4.	Cancel Printing button	Clicking this button cancels your current print job that the printer is printing.
5.	Close button:	Clicking this button closes the dialog box.
6.	Paper:	Displays the paper size and the approximate amount of paper remaining in the paper source.
7.	Toner:	Indicates the amount of remaining toner. The toner icon flashes if the toner is low.

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Setting Monitoring Preferences

To make specific monitoring settings, click Monitoring Preferences in the Utility menu of the printer driver. The Monitoring Preferences dialog box appears.

The following settings and buttons appear in the dialog box:

Select Notification:

Use the check boxes in this area to select the types of error that you wish to be notified about.

Note:

You can choose Once a day for consumable.

Once a day: When a notification occurs, it is displayed once a day until resolved.

Default button:

Restores default settings.

Select Shortcut Icon:

To use the shortcut icon, select the Shortcut Icon check box and choose an icon. The icon you select appears on the right side of the task bar.
Once the shortcut icon is in the task bar, you can double-click it to open the EPSON Status Monitor 3 dialog box. Alternatively, you can right-click the shortcut icon and select Monitoring Preferences to open the Monitoring Preferences dialog box, and EPSON EPL-2020 Advanced to open the EPSON Status Monitor 3 dialog box.

Shared Printers

To monitor a shared printer, select this check box. You need to make this setting on this server.

More Settings button

When changing the settings, see More Settings.

Note:

If you change the settings, reflect the changes on to all printers that have the same User Interface.

OK button:

Saves new changes.

Cancel button:

Cancels any changes.

Help button:

Opens online help for the Monitoring Preferences dialog box.

More Settings

You can monitor over routers or use the SMB protocol for communication to monitor Windows shared printers.

Note:

This screen is a Windows XP, 2000.

1.	Use SMB for communication:	You can monitor using both Winsock1.1 and SMB if you select the "Use SMB for communication" check box. If you do not select it, you can monitor only using Winsock1.1.
2.	Monitor over routers:	In Windows XP/2000, you can monitor Windows shared printers over routers if you select the "Monitor over routers" check box.

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Status Alert window

The Status Alert window indicates what type of error has occurred and offers you a possible solution. The window closes automatically once the problem is cleared.

This window will also appear according to the selected notification in the Monitoring Preferences dialog box.

If you wish to see information about printer consumables, click EPSON Status Monitor 3 button. Once this button is clicked, the Status Alert window will not disappear even after a problem is cleared. Click Close to close the window.

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