Reference Guide
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Setup & Maintenance / Setting Up Your Printer on a Network
For Windows
Sharing the printer
Setting up your printer as a shared printer
Using an additional driver
Setting up a clients
Installing the printer driver from the CD-ROM
Sharing the printer
This section describes how to share the printer on a standard Windows network.
The computers on a network can share a printer that is directly connected to one of them. The computer that is directly connected to the printer is the printer server, and the other computers are the clients which need permission to share the printer with the printer server. The clients share the printer via the printer server.
According to the versions of Windows OS and your access rights on the network, perform the appropriate settings of the printer server and clients.
Setting the printer server
Setting the clients
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When sharing the printer, be sure to set EPSON Status Monitor 3 so that the shared printer can be monitored on the printer server. See Setting Monitoring Preferences.
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When you are Windows shared printer user in a Windows Me, 98, or 95 environment, on the server, double-click the Network icon in Control panel and make sure that the "File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks" component is installed. Then, on the server and clients, make sure that the "IPX/SPX-compatible Protocol" or the "TCP/IP Protocol" is installed.
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The printer server and clients should be set on the same network system, and they should be under the same network management beforehand.
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The on-screen displays on the following pages may differ depending on the version of Windows OS.
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Setting up your printer as a shared printer
When the printer server's OS is Windows Me, 98, or 95, follow these steps to set the printer server.
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Click Start, point to Settings, and click Control Panel.
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Double-click the Network icon.
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Click File and Print Sharing on the Configuration menu.
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Select the I want to be able to allow others to print to my printer(s). check box, then click OK.
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Click OK to accept the settings.
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When "Insert the Disk" appears, insert the Windows Me, 98, or 95 CD-ROM in the computer. Click OK and then follow the on-screen instructions.
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For users restarting the computer
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Double-click the Printers icon on the control panel.
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Right-click EPSON AL-C3000 Advanced icon, and click Sharing in the menu that appears.
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Select the Shared As button, type the name in the Share Name box, and click OK. Type a Comment and Password if needed.
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Do not use spaces or hyphens for the share name, or an error may occur.
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When sharing the printer, be sure to set EPSON Status Monitor 3 so that the shared printer can be monitored on the printer server. See Setting Monitoring Preferences.
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You need to set the client computers so that they can use the printer on a network. See the following pages for details.
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Using an additional driver
When the printer server's OS is Windows XP, 2000, NT 4.0, or Server 2003, you can install the additional drivers in the server. The additional drivers are for client computers that have different OS from the server.
Follow these steps to set a Windows XP, 2000, NT 4.0, or Server 2003, as a printer server, and install the additional drivers.
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You must access Windows XP, 2000, NT 4.0, or Server 2003, as the Administrators of the local machine.
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If the printer server's OS is Windows NT 4.0, the additional driver can be used only on Service Pack 4 or later.
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For a Windows 2000 or NT 4.0 printer server, click Start, point to Settings, and click Printers. For a Windows XP or Server 2003 printer server, click Start, point to Printers and Faxes. For Windows XP Home edition users, point to Control panel first, then click Printers and Faxes.
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Right-click EPSON AL-C3000 Advanced icon, and click Sharing in the menu that appears.
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For Windows XP or Server 2003, if the following menu appears, click either Network Setup Wizard or If you understand the security risks but want to share printers without running the wizard, click here.
In either case, follow the on-screen instructions.
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For a Windows 2000 or NT 4.0 printer server, select the Shared as button, then type the name in the Share Name box.
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For a Windows XP or Server 2003, printer server, select the Share this printer button, then type the name in the Share name box.
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Do not use spaces or hyphens for the Share name, or an error may occur.
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Select the additional drivers.
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If the computers of the server and clients use the same OS, you do not have to install the additional drivers. Just click OK after step3.
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On the Windows NT 4.0 printer server
Select Windows being used for clients. For example, select Windows 95 to install the additional driver for the Windows Me, 98, or 95 clients. Then click OK.
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You do not have to select Windows NT 4.0x86, because that driver has been already installed.
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Do not select additional drivers other than Windows 95. The other additional drivers are not available.
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On the Windows XP, 2000, or Server 2003 printer server
Click Additional Drivers.
Select Windows being used for clients then click OK.
For Windows Me, 98, or 95 clients
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Select Intel Windows 95 or 98 (Windows 2000), Select Intel Windows 95, 98 and Me (Windows XP), Select x86 Windows 95, WIndows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Server 2003)
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For Windows NT 4.0 clients
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Select Intel Windows NT4.0 or 2000 (Windows 2000), Select Intel Windows NT4.0 or 2000 (Windows XP), Select x86 Windows NT4.0 (Windows Server 2003)
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For Windows XP or 2000 clients
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Intel Windows 2000 (Windows 2000), Intel Windows 2000 or XP (Windows XP), x86 Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (Windows Server 2003)
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The screen in Windows Server 2003 is different from the screens shown above.
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You do not have to install the additional drivers noted below, because these drivers are preinstalled.
Intel Windows 2000 (for Windows 2000) Intel Windows 2000 or XP (for Windows XP) x86 Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (for Windows Server 2003)
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Do not select additional drivers other than the drivers listed in the above table. The other additional drivers are not available.
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When a prompt appears, insert the CD-ROM that comes with your printer in your CD-ROM drive, then click OK.
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According to the message, type the appropriate drive and folder names in which the printer driver for clients is located, then click OK. Depending on the client's OS, the displayed message may differ.
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The folder name differs depending on the OS being used.
Client's OS
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Folder Name
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Windows Me, 98, or 95
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\<Lang.la: 0"|
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