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Monitoring Your Printer (EPSON Status Monitor 3)

About EPSON Status Monitor 3 utility
Accessing the EPSON Status Monitor 3
Getting printer status details
Setting Monitoring Preferences
Status Alert window
Setting Monitored Printers

About EPSON Status Monitor 3 utility

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 and fuser oil roll 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 the following section 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.

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Accessing the EPSON Status Monitor 3

The EPSON Status Monitor 3 monitors the printer during printing and while the EPSON Status Monitor 3 dialog box is open.

You can access the EPSON Status Monitor 3 directly from any application programs, from your Windows operating system.

To access the EPSON Status Monitor 3 from your application, click the Print or Page Setup command from the File menu. You also need to click Setup, Options, Properties, or a combination of these buttons.
Then click the Utility tab, and click the EPSON Status Monitor 3 icon to start the EPSON Status Monitor 3 utility.

To access the EPSON Status Monitor 3 from Windows, click Start, point to Settings, and click Printers. Next, right-click Properties (in Windows Me/98/95), Printing Preferences (in Windows 2000) or Document Defaults (in Windows NT 4.0).
Then click the Utility tab, and click the EPSON Status Monitor 3 icon to start the EPSON Status Monitor 3 utility.

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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.

1.	Icon/Message:	The icon and message shows the printer status.
2.	Printer image:	The image at the upper left shows the printer status graphically.
3.	Text box:	The text box next to the printer image displays the current status of the printer. When a problem occurs, the most probable solution is displayed.
4.	Close button:	Clicking this button closes the dialog box.
5.	How to button:	Clicking this button indicates how to solve the problem. This button appears when certain errors have occurred.
6.	Paper:	Displays the paper size and the approximate amount of paper remaining in the paper source. Information for the optional cassette is displayed only if this option is installed.
7.	Toner:	Indicates the amount of remaining toner. The toner icon flashes if toner is low (20 percent or less).
8.	Photoconductor Unit Life:	Indicates the remaining functional life of the photoconductor unit.
9.	Fuser Oil Roll:	Indicates the remaining life of the fuser roll.
10.	Cancel Printing button:	Clicking this button cancels your computer's current print job that the printer is printing.

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Setting Monitoring Preferences

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

The following settings and buttons appear in the dialog box:

1.	Select Notification:	Use the check boxes in this area to select the types of error that you wish to be notified about.
2.	Default button:	Restores default settings.
3.	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 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 AL-C1000 Advanced to open the EPSON Status Monitor 3 dialog box.
4.	Allow monitoring of shared printers check box:	To monitor a shared printer, select this check box. You need to make this setting on the server.
5	OK button:	Saves new changes.
6.	Cancel button:	Cancels any changes.
7.	Help button:	Opens online help for the Monitoring Preferences dialog box.

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Status Alert window

This window indicates what type of error has occurred and offers you a possible solution. When How to appears in the window, click it and follow the on-screen instructions. The window closes automatically once the problem is cleared.

The Status Alert window will appear whenever an error occurs with your printer. 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 Consumables. Once this button is clicked, the Status Alert window will not disappear even after a problem is cleared. To close the window you need to click Close.

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Setting Monitored Printers

You can use "Monitored Printers" utility, to change the type of printers that EPSON Status Monitor 3 will monitor. When you install the EPSON Status Monitor 3, this utility is also installed. Usually, it is not necessary to change a setup. Use this utility when you want to change the settings for some reason.

Click Start, point to Programs, point to EPSON, then click the Monitored printers.

Clear the check box of the printer which is not monitored.

Click OK.

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