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About the EPSON Status Monitor 3 Utility

Environment for the EPSON Status Monitor 3

The EPSON Status Monitor 3 is a utility program that monitors your printer and gives you information about its current status. For example, you can find out the amount of remaining toner or the remaining functional life of the photoconductor unit through this utility. If a print error occurs, the utility provides you with a message describing the error. The Status Monitor 3 utility is accessed from within the printer driver. See Accessing the EPSON Status Monitor 3 for more information.

Before using Status Monitor 3, be sure to read the printer driver's README file. This file contains the latest information on the printer driver and Status Monitor 3.

Environment for the EPSON Status Monitor 3

Protocols

The protocols that must be installed to run EPSON Status Monitor 3 vary depending on your operating system and printer type. The following table divides printers into two categories: local printers and Windows shared printers.

Use this table to determine what protocols you need to install according to your operating system and printer type, then see the corresponding section for your operating system.

	Local Printer	Windows Shared Printers
Windows 98	LPT/USB	LPT/USB
Windows 95	LPT	LPT
Windows NT 4.0	LPT	LPT
Macintosh	USB	--

Local Printer

Connect the printer directly to the printer port of your computer.

(1)	local printer
(2)	Windows 98/95/NT4.0/Macintosh
(3)	Parallel cable/USB cable

Windows shared printer

To monitor a shared printer from the client through the server machine, you have to make a setting change on the printer driver installed on the server machine. The change involves selecting the Allow monitoring of shared printers check box in the Monitoring Preferences dialog box. You can access the Monitoring Preferences dialog box through the Utility tab of the printer driver's Properties dialog box.

(1)	client machine
(2)	server machine
(3)	Windows shared printer

See the README file for more information about support for Windows shared printers.

Windows 98/95	Windows NT 4.0
Bi-directional support is necessary.	No special settings needed.

For Windows 98/95:
You need to enable bi-directional support in the printer's Properties dialog box. Click the Details tab and click Spool Settings. Then click the Enable bi-directional support for this printer radio button.

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