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EPSON Status Monitor 3 (Windows only)

About the EPSON Status Monitor 3 Utility

Environment for EPSON Status Monitor 3
Windows shared printer
Local printer
LPR printer
NetWare printer

EPSON Status Monitor 3 is a utility program that monitors your printer and gives you information about its current status, including the amount of remaining toner. If a print error occurs, the Status Monitor also provides you with a message describing the error. You can access EPSON Status Monitor 3 from your printer driver.

For more information on using the Status Monitor, open the online help included with this utility.

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 including Status Monitor 3.

Note:

EPSON Status Monitor 3 does not support Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, and Windows NT 3.51.

Environment for 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 four categories: Local printers; LPR printers, which use TCP/IP (generally in a Windows NT network environment); NetWare printers, which use Novell's IPX/SPX protocol in a NetWare environment; 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	LPR Printer (TCP/IP)	NetWare Printer (IPX/SPX)	Windows Shared Printers
Windows 98	LPT	EPSON LPR¹	NetWare³	LPT
Windows 95	LPT	EPSON LPR¹	NetWare³	LPT
Windows 2000/NT 4.0	LPT	TCP/IP & LPR²	NetWare³	LPR²& LPT

EPSON LPR¹ = EpsonNet Direct Print

LPR² = Windows NT LPR protocol

NetWare³ = Necessary protocols already installed

Note:

To set up the printer for use with TCP/IP, be sure that the TCP/IP protocols are installed in your computer and correctly set. See your operating system's online help to install the TCP/IP protocol. To set up the printer for use with NetWare, see your NetWare documentation.

If you configure more than one printer for one NetWare print queue, Status Monitor cannot monitor the printer that is assigned to that queue.

The Novell NetWare Client32 for Windows 95 and IntranetWare Client for Windows NT are available.

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Windows shared printer

You can share a printer that is connected directly to a computer with others on a network. Set up the printer as a shared printer on the computer to which the printer is connected. See Windows 98/95 or Windows 2000/NT 4.0 depending on your operating systems.

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

Note:

To monitor a shared printer from the client through the server machine, select Allow monitoring of shared printer in the Monitoring Preference dialog box in the server machine.

The environment must support normal printing from the shared printer.

The port used for monitoring will differ from system to system.

	LPT1	TCP/IP-LPR
Windows 98/95	supported	not supported
Windows 2000/NT 4.0	supported	supported

Windows 98/95

You need to set up the printer as a shared printer on the computer to which the printer is connected. Then, you must specify the network path to the printer from each computer that will use it, and install the printer software on those computers.

Setting up your printer as a shared printer

Follow these steps to share a printer that is connected directly to your computer with others on a network.

Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

Double-click Network.

Click File and Print Sharing.

Check the I want to be able to allow others to print to my printer(s) check box and click OK. Then restart the computer.

Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Printers.

Right-click the target printer icon and click Sharing.

Select the Shared As radio button and enter the share name. Click OK.

Accessing the printer through a network

To access your printer from another computer on the network, follow these steps.

Note:

Your printer must be set up as a shared resource on the computer to which it is directly connected before you can access it from another computer.

Click Start, point to Settings, and click Printers.

Double-click Add Printer. Click Next.

Select the Network printer radio button and click Next.

Click Browse and select the network path from the list. Follow the on-screen instructions to set up the printer.

Windows 2000/NT 4.0

If you are using a shared printer in Windows 2000/NT 4.0, it is important that you follow the instructions below carefully, especially Accessing the printer through a network, which describes how to install the printer driver on clients. If you do not follow these instructions, you may not be able to properly install or use the printer driver.

First, you need to set up the printer as a shared printer on the computer to which the printer is connected. Then, you must specify the network path to the printer from each computer that will use it, and install the printer software on those computers.

Setting up your printer as a shared printer

Follow these steps to share a printer that is connected directly to your computer with others on a network.

Click Start, point to Settings, and click Printers.

Select your printer, then select Sharing from the File menu.

Click Shared and enter the Share Name.

Click OK.

Note:

Do not choose any drivers from the Alternate Drivers list.

Accessing the printer through a network

To access your printer from another computer on the network, follow these steps.

Note:

Your printer must be set up as a shared resource on the computer to which it is directly connected before you can access it from another computer.

Install the printer driver to the client computer from the software CD-ROM.

Open the Printer folder from the Control Panel, then open the Properties for your printer.

Click the Ports tab, then click Add Port.

The following dialog appears. Select Local Port, then click New Port.

The following dialog appears. In the text box, type the following information:

\\name of computer that is connected to the printer\name of the shared printer

Then click OK.

In the Printer Ports dialog box, click Close to return to the Ports menu.

On the Ports menu, make sure that the new port is added and the check box is selected. Click OK to close the printer driver.

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Local printer

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

(1):	local printer
(2):	Windows 98/95/2000/NT4.0
(3):	local cable

Windows 98/95/2000	Windows NT 4.0
Bi-directional support is necessary.	No special settings needed.

For Windows 98/95/2000:
You need to enable bi-directional support in the printer's properties dialog box. For Windows 98/95, open Properties, then click the Details tab, then Spool Settings. Then click the Enable bi-directional support for this printer radio button. For Windows 2000, click the Ports tab and select the Enable bidirectional support check box.

Note:

When you monitor a local printer with Windows 98/95, use LPT1 for the printer port.

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LPR printer

(1):	LPR printer
(2):	Windows 2000 with Standard TCP/IP Monitor Windows NT4.0 with Windows NT LPR Windows 98/95 with EPSON LPR
(3):	Ethernet network

LPR printers use LPR over TCP/IP as their communication protocol suite, and you must install both protocols to use the Status Monitor to monitor a LPR printer. See your operating system documentation for installing TCP/IP. To connect to a printer on the network and share the printer without using the server:

In Windows 98/95:
You need to set the printer using EpsonNet Direct Print. See Printing with TCP/IP via EpsonNet Direct Print.

In Windows NT 4.0:
To set up TCP/IP printing, see Printing via LPR software in Windows NT 4.0.

In Windows 2000:
To set up TCP/IP printing, see Printing via Standard TCP/IP Port Monitor in Windows 2000.

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NetWare printer

(1):	NetWare printer with IPX/SPX protocol
(2):	Netware server
(3):	Windows 98/95/NT4.0
(4):	Ethernet network

You can use the network printer though the NetWare server. Be sure to do the following:

Connect the printer to a Bindery queue or NDS queue in Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0.

Use IntranetWare Client32 Ver1.12 or later if you are using Windows 98/95. Use IntranetWare Client if you are using Windows NT.

You must set the port number to 0 when using Remote Printer mode.

If you use your printer in a NetWare environment, you need to connect to the print queue that is assigned to your printer.

Click Start, point to Settings, and click Printers.

Click Add Printer.

Select Network printer, and click Next.

Double-click the NetWare file server that services the print queue assigned to your printer.

All of the queues serviced by that file server appear in a list. Select the correct print queue, and click OK. (If the printer driver is not installed, a dialog box appears prompting you to select the printer driver.)

Make the default printer setting and click Next.

Click Finish.

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