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EPSON Status Monitor 3 (Windows only)

About the EPSON Status Monitor 3 Utility

Environment for EPSON Status Monitor 3

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.

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 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, see Printing with TCP/IP via EpsonNet Direct Print. 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.

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.

Windows shared printer

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.

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

Note:

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 NT 4.0	supported	supported

See the Readme file for more information about support for Windows shared printers.

Local Printer

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

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

Windows 98/95	Windows NT 4.0
Bi-directional support is necessary.	Do not need any special settings.

For Windows 98/95:
You need to set the bi-directional support in the printer's properties dialog box. Click the Details tab and click Spool Settings. Then click the Enable bi-directional support for this printer radio button.

Note:

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

LPR printer

1:	LPR printer
2:	Windows NT4.0 with Windows NT LPR Windows 98/95 with EPSON LPR
3:	Ethernet network

To connect to a printer on the network and share the printer without using the server:

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

For Windows NT 4.0:
You need to set for TCP/IP printing. See Installing LPR software in Windows NT 4.0.

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. Make sure the following points;

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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