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Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 00:26:18 +1100
From: Alan Duval <amohtatozemail dot com dot au>
Subject: [os2genau] Installing Epson printer

Hi everyone,

My trusty HP Deskjet 660C started malfunctioning so I bought an Epson
Stylus Color 680 today after checking that I could get drivers for it.
I've got it going on Win95 but can't seem to get it going on OS/2. I
seem to have the driver installed but can't print.
I've deleted the printer object a couple of times and reinstalled the
driver which is in J:\Epson Driver. After defining the path, clicking
refresh, selecting the driver and clicking install a sys3175 error
occurs. However if I click OK to end program/command/operation, install
goes ahead and the dialog box says that the printer driver was
successfully installed and a printer object is formed in the create a
printer window. I can then select it and click create and it seems to be
installed. However nothing seems to be getting through to the printer
when I try to print. Checking the properties window shows the printer to
be installed and the output port as LPT1.

Any ideas how I can get this printer working?


Alan Duval

2================================================

Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 20:31:59 +1000
From: Daryl Pilkington <u3232athome.dialix dot com>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] ONLY 20 operating systems?

UNBELIEVABLE
This guy doesn't have a life:- or he's trying to achieve some sort of
World Record.

Shouldn't have any cross-platform compatibility problems!

Peter wrote:
> 
> G'day all...
> 
> Would anybody like to help this person?
> 
>  http://www dot computing dot net/os2/wwwboard/forum/774.html
> 
> Cheers
> Peter
> 
-- 
Regards, 

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Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 08:18:14 +1000
From: Ed Durrant <edurrantatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Installing Epson printer

as I posted on the list, a couple of weeks ago - I also replace my
Deskjet with an Epson Stylus Color 680 and I am VERY HAPPY
with the results. I had no problems whatsoever installing the
driver and it can do everything under OS/2 that it can under
Win 98. Simply a wonderful printer with a well written driver.

I suspect you may have a corrupted driver. You should have epson omni
driver V4 - I'll email this direct to you, off-list. The
other things you might like to check is that your parallel port 
(I presuming you're running on the parralel port, not on USB)
is set to bi-directional. You probably should also set the /IRQ
switch on print01.sys to give you better performance (make sure
nothing else is using IRQ 7 before you do this though). The driver
works with or without this switch set.

By the way, what method are you using to install the driver ??

Are you simply opening drives and going to the driver file, 
clicking it and drag and drop installing or are you going into 
an existing printer object and doing an add driver ?? Both 
should work but I think I used the second option.

Something else to check, make sure the printer object doesn't
have both your old Deskjet and new epson drivers assigned
to it - it should only have the epson, but I seen this happen
before with wierd consequences.

OK, I'll now send you the driver file I used.

Cheers/2

Ed Durrant.

Alan Duval wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> My trusty HP Deskjet 660C started malfunctioning so I bought an Epson
> Stylus Color 680 today after checking that I could get drivers for it.
> I've got it going on Win95 but can't seem to get it going on OS/2. I
> seem to have the driver installed but can't print.
> I've deleted the printer object a couple of times and reinstalled the
> driver which is in J:\Epson Driver. After defining the path, clicking
> refresh, selecting the driver and clicking install a sys3175 error
> occurs. However if I click OK to end program/command/operation, install
> goes ahead and the dialog box says that the printer driver was
> successfully installed and a printer object is formed in the create a
> printer window. I can then select it and click create and it seems to be
> installed. However nothing seems to be getting through to the printer
> when I try to print. Checking the properties window shows the printer to
> be installed and the output port as LPT1.
> 
> Any ideas how I can get this printer working?
> 
> Alan Duval

4=============================================

Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 09:35:40 +1000
From: Daryl Pilkington <u3232athome.dialix dot com>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Installing Epson printer

Hi Alan,
Didn't think I could add anything here, but Ed is onto something with
the driver.
Printer drivers have extended attributes.
If you transfer the files on anything but an OS/2 box, these attributes
will not be preserved.

The last time I looked, they come off the Internet as a *.exe file.
The trick is download the file from the Internet directly to the OS/2
box & expand them there & then.
You can push the *.exe file around, but not the individual contents of
it, for the above reasons.

When I was working at IBM, Desktop support got caught on this one, (!).

Ed Durrant wrote:
> 
> as I posted on the list, a couple of weeks ago - I also replace my
> Deskjet with an Epson Stylus Color 680 and I am VERY HAPPY
> with the results. I had no problems whatsoever installing the
> driver and it can do everything under OS/2 that it can under
> Win 98. Simply a wonderful printer with a well written driver.
> 
> I suspect you may have a corrupted driver. You should have epson omni
> driver V4 - I'll email this direct to you, off-list. The
> other things you might like to check is that your parallel port
> (I presuming you're running on the parralel port, not on USB)
> is set to bi-directional. You probably should also set the /IRQ
> switch on print01.sys to give you better performance (make sure
> nothing else is using IRQ 7 before you do this though). The driver
> works with or without this switch set.
> 
> By the way, what method are you using to install the driver ??
> 
> Are you simply opening drives and going to the driver file,
> clicking it and drag and drop installing or are you going into
> an existing printer object and doing an add driver ?? Both
> should work but I think I used the second option.
> 
> Something else to check, make sure the printer object doesn't
> have both your old Deskjet and new epson drivers assigned
> to it - it should only have the epson, but I seen this happen
> before with wierd consequences.
> 
> OK, I'll now send you the driver file I used.
> 
> Cheers/2
> 
> Ed Durrant.
> 

-- 
Regards, 

Daryl  Pilkington 

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From: "Michael Block" <mblockatoptushome dot com dot au>
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 11:11:49 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Installing Epson printer

On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 09:35:40 +1000, Daryl Pilkington wrote:

if no print job appears in the printer object make sure
that in each app you have selected the epson as your
printer (I have fallen for that one). Try disabling the
spooler and see if you can print directly.


>> 
>
>-- 
>Regards, 
>
>Daryl  Pilkington 
>
>//// The PC-Therapist, Business Computing Integration
>O<O  AUSTRALIA
>\_/
><O>  OS/2 Warp, Redhat Linux, DB2
>     IBM Certified Systems Expert
>
>        email: darylpatpc-therapist dot com dot au
>          ICQ: 91914134
>          Tel: +61-2-8902-1300
>          Mob: +61-425-251-300
>          Fax: +61-2-9411-3720
>      Mob SMS: 0425251300.0000atorangenet dot com dot au
>               (120 characters max, send no carriage returns)

regards

Michael Block
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http://members.optushome dot com dot au/mblock/perinatal.html
The www home of perinatal psychiatry

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From: "Stan Pallis" <spallisatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] ONLY 20 operating systems?
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 12:54:21 -0000

I thought running beos, linux, winme,win2k, & os2 was a handful

-----Original Message-----
From: Daryl Pilkington [mailto:u3232athome.dialix dot com]
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2001 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [os2genau] ONLY 20 operating systems?


UNBELIEVABLE
This guy doesn't have a life:- or he's trying to achieve some sort of
World Record.

Shouldn't have any cross-platform compatibility problems!

Peter wrote:
>
> G'day all...
>
> Would anybody like to help this person?
>
>  http://www dot computing dot net/os2/wwwboard/forum/774.html
>
> Cheers
> Peter
>
--
Regards,

Daryl  Pilkington

//// The PC-Therapist, Business Computing Integration
O<O  AUSTRALIA
\_/
<O>  OS/2 Warp, Redhat Linux, DB2
     IBM Certified Systems Expert

        email: darylpatpc-therapist dot com dot au
          ICQ: 91914134
          Tel: +61-2-8902-1300
          Mob: +61-425-251-300
          Fax: +61-2-9411-3720
      Mob SMS: 0425251300.0000atorangenet dot com dot au
               (120 characters max, send no carriage returns)

7=============================================

Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 13:54:10 +1100
From: Alan Duval <amohtatozemail dot com dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Installing Epson printer

Ed, 
Thanks for the driver. I think it is the same as mine. I downloaded it
and unpacked it to J:\Epson.

Ed Durrant wrote:
> I suspect you may have a corrupted driver. You should have epson omni
 The
> other things you might like to check is that your parallel port
> (I presuming you're running on the parralel port)

Yes
> is set to bi-directional. 

How do I do this?  

You probably should also set the /IRQ
> switch on print01.sys to give you better performance (make sure
> nothing else is using IRQ 7 before you do this though). The driver
> works with or without this switch set.

When I go to hardware manager I note that nothing is using IRQ 7. The
parallel port has no IRQ assigned. Should it have one assigned? If so
how do I do this? If I right click on the parallel port Icon I can't
find any place to assign an IRQ.

> 
> By the way, what method are you using to install the driver ??
> 
> Are you simply opening drives and going to the driver file,
> clicking it and drag and drop installing or are you going into
> an existing printer object and doing an add driver ?? Both
> should work but I think I used the second option.

Am doing the latter
> 
> Something else to check, make sure the printer object doesn't
> have both your old Deskjet and new epson drivers assigned
> to it - it should only have the epson, but I seen this happen
> before with wierd consequences.

Can't find anything to say that it has
> 
Right Clicked on the printer object
Create a printer window displayed.
Right clicked on EPOMNi4 icon then selected delete.
New window shows Location  G: Nowhere
                 Object  EPOMNI4 Stylus Color 680
Clicked delete button
New window ... "Are you sure you wish to delete EPOMNI4 Stylus Color
680?"
Clicked yes
New window ...(Delete Printer Driver) ... "The printer driver is
currently being used by the following printer driiver  (EPSON)"
Right clicked on the EPSON icon and selected delete.
New window... "Delete object from Location G:\OS/2
System\Connections\Print"
"Object ..EPSON"
Clicked delete button.
New window...."Do you want to delete the files associated with printer
driver  G:\OSat\DLL\EPOMNI4\EPOMNI4.drv  from your fixed disk?"
Clicked Yes button.
Object then deleted.
Rebooted.
Right clicked Printer object to get create a printer window.
Typed name EPSON.
Clicked install button.
Selected J:\EPSON.
Pressed refresh button.
Selected Epson 680.
Pressed install button. Installed the EPOMNI4 printer icon in create a
printer window.
Clicked install in this window.
Finish.

Rebooted and tried to print. Nothing happened.

What am I doing wrong? 


Alan Duval

8=============================================

Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 14:44:15 +1000
From: Ed Durrant <edurrantatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Installing Epson printer

OK Alan,

 1. To set printer to bi-directional - it's a hardware setting.
    When you turn your PC on, there should be a message like
    Press Del for setup - depending upon the make it may also
    say Press F1 for setup mode.  Either way, press the required
    key in time and you will be taken into what looks like a
    simple DOS menu program. If you search through the menu
    you ned to find the printer settings, depending upon the make
    of the BIOS, thius may be under a heading such as peripherals
    or possibly I/O cards or ports. In any case, once you find the
    printer setting there will be vrious options - ECP, EPP, Normal,
    etc. - You need one that also displays bi-directional. It may 
    also say that it is going to use IRQ 7 and possibly a DMA as
    well, depending which option you select. I tend to go for ECP
    and Bi-directionl (which may be stated as extended rather 
    than bi-directional). While you're here check that the printer
    IO address is set to 378 and if identified as such, says LPT1.
    Now that's all set, eascape back to the menu and exit saving
    data. If you acidently change ANYTHING else, exit without
    changing and start again.

2.  Setting the IRQ option. Go to a command prompt and run the
    editor on the config.sys file :

    C:> E  CONFIG.SYS

    Use find (ctrl+F) to search for device=print01.sys and then
    simply add /IRQ at the end of this line. Press F3, save, exit
    shutdown and restart the PC.

Now, even if these two options are not set, you should still be 
able to print so what's going wrong ?

Go to connections, printers and right click on ny printer object.
select properties and go to the printer driver page. right click 
on a printer driver object and select install>new device. Type
in the directory where the epsonomni4 driver was expanded and
then select the stylus color 680 from the list displayed and 
click install. A message should be displayed saying that the
selected driver was successfully installed.

The Driver is now installed. Now open up the templates folder 
and drag and drop the printer template into the printers folder
(note the printer template is not in the printers folder all ready
that's the network printer template that we can't use for locally
attached printers.

After you "drop" this template, you will have a panel displayed
showing the installed printer drivers on the left - select the
Epson 680 and on the right select LPT1 (note - by default the
printer installer will select the next non-used port - often LPT2
which you don't have in your PC). Change the name from simply 
printer to whatever you want to call the printer - such as Epson
680,  press the create button and the panel will close and the
printer will be installed.

Hope this works !  At least using this method of first installing
the driver and then creating the printer, we amy be able to see
better where any problems lie, should they still occur.

Regards,

Ed Durrant. 

Alan Duval wrote:
> 
> Ed,
> Thanks for the driver. I think it is the same as mine. I downloaded it
> and unpacked it to J:\Epson.
> 
> Ed Durrant wrote:
> > I suspect you may have a corrupted driver. You should have epson omni
>  The
> > other things you might like to check is that your parallel port
> > (I presuming you're running on the parralel port)
> 
> Yes
> > is set to bi-directional.
> 
> How do I do this?
> 
> You probably should also set the /IRQ
> > switch on print01.sys to give you better performance (make sure
> > nothing else is using IRQ 7 before you do this though). The driver
> > works with or without this switch set.
> 
> When I go to hardware manager I note that nothing is using IRQ 7. The
> parallel port has no IRQ assigned. Should it have one assigned? If so
> how do I do this? If I right click on the parallel port Icon I can't
> find any place to assign an IRQ.
> 
> >
> > By the way, what method are you using to install the driver ??
> >
> > Are you simply opening drives and going to the driver file,
> > clicking it and drag and drop installing or are you going into
> > an existing printer object and doing an add driver ?? Both
> > should work but I think I used the second option.
> 
> Am doing the latter
> >
> > Something else to check, make sure the printer object doesn't
> > have both your old Deskjet and new epson drivers assigned
> > to it - it should only have the epson, but I seen this happen
> > before with wierd consequences.
> 
> Can't find anything to say that it has
> >
> Right Clicked on the printer object
> Create a printer window displayed.
> Right clicked on EPOMNi4 icon then selected delete.
> New window shows Location  G: Nowhere
>                  Object  EPOMNI4 Stylus Color 680
> Clicked delete button
> New window ... "Are you sure you wish to delete EPOMNI4 Stylus Color
> 680?"
> Clicked yes
> New window ...(Delete Printer Driver) ... "The printer driver is
> currently being used by the following printer driiver  (EPSON)"
> Right clicked on the EPSON icon and selected delete.
> New window... "Delete object from Location G:\OS/2
> System\Connections\Print"
> "Object ..EPSON"
> Clicked delete button.
> New window...."Do you want to delete the files associated with printer
> driver  G:\OSat\DLL\EPOMNI4\EPOMNI4.drv  from your fixed disk?"
> Clicked Yes button.
> Object then deleted.
> Rebooted.
> Right clicked Printer object to get create a printer window.
> Typed name EPSON.
> Clicked install button.
> Selected J:\EPSON.
> Pressed refresh button.
> Selected Epson 680.
> Pressed install button. Installed the EPOMNI4 printer icon in create a
> printer window.
> Clicked install in this window.
> Finish.
> 
> Rebooted and tried to print. Nothing happened.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Alan Duval

9=============================================

Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 15:54:44 +1100
From: Alan Duval <amohtatozemail dot com dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Installing Epson printer

Ed Durrant wrote:
> 
> OK Alan,
> 
>  1. To set printer to bi-directional -  there will be vrious options - ECP, EPP, Normal,
>     etc. - You need one that also displays bi-directional. It may
>     also say that it is going to use IRQ 7 and possibly a DMA as
>     well, depending which option you select. I tend to go for ECP
>     and Bi-directionl (which may be stated as extended rather
>     than bi-directional). While you're here check that the printer
>     IO address is set to 378 and if identified as such, says LPT1.
>     Now that's all set, eascape back to the menu and exit saving
>     data. If you acidently change ANYTHING else, exit without
>     changing and start again.


Done ...Parallel port set to  378H/IRQ7 

Parallel port mode ....set to  ECP+EPP

ECP DMA SELECT .... shown as (3)

These are the existing settings.
 
> 2.  Setting the IRQ option. Go to a command prompt and run the
>     editor on the config.sys file :
> 
>     C:> E  CONFIG.SYS
> 
>     Use find (ctrl+F) to search for device=print01.sys and then
>     simply add /IRQ at the end of this line. Press F3, save, exit
>     shutdown and restart the PC.


Found as BASEDEVICE=PRINT01.sys .....Added /IRQ  and rebooted
 
> Now, even if these two options are not set, you should still be
> able to print so what's going wrong ?
> 
> Go to connections, printers and right click on ny printer object.
> select properties and go to the printer driver page. right click
> on a printer driver object and select install>new device. Type
> in the directory where the epsonomni4 driver was expanded and
> then select the stylus color 680 from the list displayed and
> click install. A message should be displayed saying that the
> selected driver was successfully installed.
> 
> The Driver is now installed. Now open up the templates folder
> and drag and drop the printer template into the printers folder
> (note the printer template is not in the printers folder all ready
> that's the network printer template that we can't use for locally
> attached printers.
> 
> After you "drop" this template, you will have a panel displayed
> showing the installed printer drivers on the left - select the
> Epson 680 and on the right select LPT1 (note - by default the
> printer installer will select the next non-used port - often LPT2
> which you don't have in your PC). Change the name from simply
> printer to whatever you want to call the printer - such as Epson
> 680,  press the create button and the panel will close and the
> printer will be installed.
> 
> Hope this works !  At least using this method of first installing
> the driver and then creating the printer, we amy be able to see
> better where any problems lie, should they still occur.


Done.  Still doesn't print


Alan
10=============================================

Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 19:21:48 +1100
From: Alan Duval <amohtatozemail dot com dot au>
Subject: [os2genau] Epston Stylus Installation

Hi Ed,

I've tried everything suggested but to no avail. Even scrubbed the whole
os/2 operating system and reinstalled it from a backup image in case
something I had corrupted the system.
Then tried installing the printer with Warpguide. That failed as it
couldn't create a printer object. Tried your method a couple of times
also. There seems to be no connection between the computer and the
printer.
Maybe i'll have to wait until I get ECom Station installed and try
again. In the meantime I guess i'l have to copy anything i need to print
to a Win data partition and print from Win95.
Has anyone any other suggestions?

Alan Duval <amohtatozemail dot com dot au>

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