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01-14-2002, 12:24 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Homestead, Florida
Posts: 77
| | | Windows XP and Epson 1270
I experienced a lot of problems trying to get my Epson 1270 to work correctly when printing from Photoshop. When I connected the printer XP found a 1270 printer driver and set it up to use that driver. I ended up with a very strange print control panel and was unable to get the 1270 to print like I had when using 98SE.
I checked the Epson site and found a 1270 printer driver for XP downloaded the driver and ran the setup, associated with the new driver. Still had the same problem, it appeared XP was tring to use the generic setup even with the other one installed.
Today I left the printer hooked up to the computer, uninstalled both sets of drivers for the Epson 1270, then reinstalled the new XP drivers only. Now works like it should, have full control on how I want to print.
If anyone is going to use a Epson 1270 with XP, get the drivers from Epson site first, also the status monitor updated driver, do not let it install using the drivers that come with XP, you lose a lot of control and it will not print as you expect.  |
01-14-2002, 08:31 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: northwest Indiana, about 45 minutes from Chicago, IL
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| | George,
I have the 870, and I already downloaded the new drivers even though I don't yet have the new computer. Do you think it's wise to install the driver before installing the hardware, or would that make a difference? I appreciate your post. It could save me a headache that I'm not prepared for. 
Ed |
01-14-2002, 08:35 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South Florida
Posts: 1,659
| | | That's what we did also. I think it even recommended that at the Epson support download page for XP because I remember reading something along those lines. Good advice George.
DJ |
01-15-2002, 09:50 AM
| | Member | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Homestead, Florida
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| | | ED
To get it working correctly, I turned the printer off, loaded the XP software, ran setup, it asked me to plug in computer and turn it on, I had it plugged in just turned power on to printer and it connected driver to printer and setup the USB port. |
01-15-2002, 10:10 AM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: northwest Indiana, about 45 minutes from Chicago, IL
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| | | Thanks George. I'll try it that way first thing.
Ed |
02-08-2002, 03:33 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 18
| | Quote: Originally posted by Ed_L
George,
I have the 870, and I already downloaded the new drivers even though I don't yet have the new computer. Do you think it's wise to install the driver before installing the hardware, or would that make a difference? I appreciate your post. It could save me a headache that I'm not prepared for.
Ed | If its a usb printer than installing the drivers first is required, but other than that I would always recommend installing the drivers before hooking up the harware. | 
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