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Windows Me/98 environment
A dial-up connection dialog box appears when printing with TCP/IP via EpsonNet 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, click the Optional Settings tab, and then click the Notice Settings button. 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 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, click the Optional Settings tab, and then click the Notice Settings button. 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 Bonjour/Rendezvous printer setting is overwritten by the AppleTalk printer setting.

Cause

What to do

The same printer is set up with AppleTalk after the printer is set up with Bonjour/Rendezvous.

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

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NetWare environment
For users of printers supporting NetWare queue-based printing
Nothing prints even though clients have sent data to the printer.

Cause

What to do

Clients may not be registered, or the network interface 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 network interface is logged in to the NetWare server.

EpsonNet Config 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 Config.

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 Config 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 Config.

To search for network interfaces in other segments, use Search options of EpsonNet Config.

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

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

Cannot monitor the printer using EPSON Status Monitor.

Cause

What to do

You set the NDS Print Server settings for the printer using EpsonNet Config for Windows.

Re-configure the printer assigned as the print server using NetWare Administrator.

For users of printers not supporting NetWare queue-based printing
Nothing prints even though clients have sent data to the printer.

Cause

What to do

Clients may not be registered, or the network interface may not be working correctly.

Make sure clients are registered as users of the NetWare server. Also, make sure the network interface is working correctly.

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