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Windows Me/98/95 environment
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Windows Me/98/95 environment

A dial-up connection dialog box appears when printing with TCP/IP via EpsonNet Direct Print.
Cause What to do

You have selected a phone line or modem (for Internet Explorer 4.0x) for the Internet connection.

Printing ends normally after you cancel this dialog box, but the message appears every time you print. Connect to the Internet using a local area network or start a dial-up network manually.

A communication error message appears when you start printing or when you open the printer's properties.
Cause What to do

When you print with NetBEUI or IPP, EPSON Status Monitor cannot be used.

Open the printer's properties and then click the Optional Settings tab. Select the Update the Printer Option Information manually radio button.

Open the printer's properties and then click the Utility tab. Clear the Monitor the Printing Status check box.


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Windows 2000/NT environment

A dial-up connection dialog box appears when printing with TCP/IP via EpsonNet Direct Print.
Cause What to do

You have selected a phone line or modem (for Internet Explorer 4.0x) for the Internet connection.

Printing ends normally after you cancel this dialog box, but the message appears every time you print. Connect to the Internet using a local area network or start a dial-up network manually.

A communication error message appears when you start printing or when you open the printer's properties.
Cause What to do

When you print with NetBEUI or IPP, EPSON Status Monitor cannot be used.

Open the printer's properties and then click the Optional Settings tab. Select the Update the Printer Option Information manually radio button.

Open the printer's properties and then click the Utility tab. Clear the Monitor the Printing Status check box.

No clients except an administrator can print via Windows NT Server 4.0.
Cause What to do

CREATOR OWNER has been deleted from the Printer Permissions list, or CREATOR OWNER is set to Print or No Access.

Add CREATOR OWNER by clicking the Add button in the Printer Permissions dialog box, or set CREATOR OWNER to Manage Documents (default setting).


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Macintosh environment

Printers do not appear in Chooser.
Cause What to do

You may have selected a wrong one for "Connect via" in the AppleTalk Control Panel.

Make sure to select Ethernet in AppleTalk Control Panel, and make sure AppleTalk is active in Chooser. Also, check the network equipment including the hub cable.

The Rendezvous printer setting is overwritten by the AppleTalk printer setting when the same printer is set up with AppleTalk after the printer is set up with Rendezvous.

Change the AppleTalk printer name so that it does not conflict with the Rendezvous printer name.


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NetWare environment

Nothing prints even though clients have sent data to the printer.
Cause What to do

Clients may not be registered, or the print server may not be logged in to the NetWare server.

Make sure clients are registered as users of the print queue and the print server. Also, make sure the print server is logged in to the NetWare server.

EpsonNet WinAssist/WebAssist will not start correctly.
Cause What to do

Microsoft NetWare Directory Service is installed on your computer.

If you are using the NDS service, install the Novell NetWare Client service.

It takes a long time to start EpsonNet WinAssist.
Cause What to do

The Novell Client service is installed.

Double-click Network in Control Panel, and then double-click the network adapter that does not use the IPX/SPX-compatible protocol. Clear the items related to IPX to unbind IPX.

The printers on the IPX network do not appear in the EpsonNet WinAssist dialog box.
Cause What to do
The printer is turned off. Turn on the printer.
The printer is not in the same segment as the computer where you installed EpsonNet WinAssist. To search for print servers in other segments, use Search Options of EpsonNet WinAssist.

You have not logged in to the target NetWare server with supervisor privileges.

From the computer on which EpsonNet WinAssist is installed, log in to the target NetWare server with supervisor privileges.


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