Epson Printer Owners: Beware of SP2!!!

[whabang]

Those of you having Epson Printers:
Be aware that many older printers will never get SP2-support, and that many won't get compatible drivers until february next year.

[mikeymike]

Presumably this is something official that Epson have said - they'll rethink that policy.  Most site statistics suggest that half of Windows users with Internet connections are running WinXP, and considering that MS have been implying that any software that doesn't work with SP2 isn't well-designed software.

 - edit -

Epson's driver release schedule wrt SP2 - most of those say this year...

[whabang]

SP2 driver availibility scheme

They are serious. Drivers for newer products are on the way, but anything older than a year will have to wait for a while.

[billchase]

I have an Epson Color Stylus 1160 installed on a
XP machine.  I installed SP2 on top of a fairly
clean installtion (though already had directx9.0c
and updated drivers) without any problems.  I have
not done any extensive testing of printing functions,
but everything seems to work.

C Snyder


EDIT: BTW, I am using the USB interface, I have no idea
if that is a factor.

[Crumpster]

Have got a Epson Stylus Colour 680 here, attached to a HP Jet Direct box that I print directly to from my XP SP2 PC across the works network.

I've had no problems with it, but I haven't tried attaching it directly to my Parallel port yet. (And since it works, I think I'll leave it as it is :-))

Cheers,
Graham C


It's a 680, not a 640, I'm a dumbass!

[blobrana]

Hum,
i just checked my Epson Stylus C20 with sp2 and it works fine...
Its not even on Epsons `to do` list so its lucky that it works...

[whabang]

The major problem is that many images are extremely dark when printed under SP2. The printing itself does not cease to work.

Printing using Epson's colour profiles from an app like Photoshop works fine.