Using the Printer Driver / For Windows

# Monitoring Your Printer with EPSON Status Monitor 3

> About EPSON Status Monitor 3
> Accessing the EPSON Status Monitor 3
> Getting printer status details
> Using the Job Management function
> Setting monitoring preferences
> Status Alert window
> Stopping monitoring
> Selecting printers to be monitored (EPL-6200 only)

## About EPSON Status Monitor 3

EPSON Status Monitor 3 is a utility program that monitors your printer and gives you information about its current status. For example, you can find out the amount of remaining toner through this utility. If a print error occurs, the utility provides you with a message describing the error. EPSON Status Monitor 3 is accessed from within the printer driver.

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## Accessing the EPSON Status Monitor 3

You can access the EPSON Status Monitor 3 from any application program, or from your Windows operating system.

- The EPSON Status Monitor 3 appears automatically when an error occurs.

- To access the EPSON Status Monitor 3 from your application, click the Print or Page Setup command on the File menu, click Properties and then click the Utility tab, and click the EPSON Status Monitor 3 icon to start the EPSON Status Monitor 3.

- To access the EPSON Status Monitor 3 from Windows, click Start, point to Settings, and click Printers. Next, right-click The EPL-6200/EPL-6200L Advanced icon and click Properties (in Windows Me, 98, or 95), Printing Preferences (in Windows XP or 2000) or Document Defaults (in Windows NT 4.0).
  Then click the Utility tab, and click the EPSON Status Monitor 3 icon to start the EPSON Status Monitor 3.

|  | Note:

This is an EPL-6200 screen. The EPL-6200L has a slightly different screen.

|  | Note: (EPL-6200 only)

Do not clear the Monitor the printing status check box. If you clear the check box, the Status Alert window no longer comes up to notify you when an error occurs and your printer may not recover from some errors.

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## Getting printer status details

You can monitor printer status and obtain information on consumable products using the EPSON Status Monitor 3 dialog box.

> EPL-6200

> EPL-6200L

1. | Icon/Message: | Shows the printer status.
2. | Printer image: | The image at the upper left shows the printer status graphically.
3. | Text box: | The text box next to the printer image displays the current status of the printer. When a problem occurs, the most probable solution is displayed.
4. | Cancel Printing button (EPL-6200L only): | Clicking this button cancels your current print job that the printer is printing.
5. | Close button: | Closes the dialog box.
6. | Paper (EPL-6200): | Displays the paper size, paper type, and the approximate amount of paper remaining in the paper source. Information for the optional cassettes are displayed only if this option is installed.
| Paper (EPL-6200L): | Displays the paper size.
7. | Toner: | Indicates the amount of remaining toner. The toner icon flashes if toner is low or out.
8. | Photoconductor unit: | Indicates the remaining functional life of the photoconductor unit.

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## Using the Job Management function

You can obtain information on the print jobs on the Job Information menu on the EPSON Status Monitor 3 dialog box.

To display the Job Information menu, select the Show job information check box on the Monitoring Preferences dialog box. (See Setting monitoring preferences for details.) Then click the Job Information tab on the EPSON Status Monitor 3 dialog box.

1. | Status: | Waiting: The print job which waiting to be printed. Printing: The print job which is printed currently. Completed: Displays only your jobs that have finished printing. Canceled: Displays only your jobs that have been canceled printing.
2. | Job Name: | Displays the user's print job file names. Other user's print jobs are displayed as --------.
3. | Refresh button: | Clicking this button refreshes the information on this menu.
4. | Cancel Job button: | Selecting a print job and clicking this button cancels the selected print job.

#### Setting to notify when printing is completed

When the Notify when printing completed check box is selected, the Notify when printing completed function can be used.

To use this function, click the specified print job from the print job list on the Job Information menu in the EPSON Status Monitor 3 dialog box. When the target job is completed, the Notify when printing completed dialog box appears.

| Note:

If you cancel the target job, the Notify when printing completed dialog box does not appear.

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## Setting monitoring preferences

To make specific monitoring settings, click Monitoring Preferences in the Utility menu of the printer driver. The Monitoring Preferences dialog box appears.

> EPL-6200

> EPL-6200L

The following settings and buttons appear in the dialog box:

1. | Select Notification: | Use the check boxes in this area to select the types of error that you wish to be notified about.
| Note: (EPL-6200L only)
You can choose Once a day for consumable. Once a day: When a notification occurs, it is displayed once a day until it is resolved.
2. | Default button: | Restores default settings.
3. | Select Shortcut Icon: | To use the shortcut icon, select the Shortcut Icon check box and choose an icon. The icon you select appears on the right side of the task bar. Once the shortcut icon is in the task bar, you can double-click it to open the Status Monitor 3 dialog box. Alternatively, you can right-click the shortcut icon and select Monitoring Preferences to open the Monitoring Preferences dialog box, and EPSON EPL-6200 Advanced to open the EPSON Status Monitor 3 dialog box.
4. | Allow monitoring of shared printers check box: | To monitor a shared printer, select this box. You need to make this setting on the server.
5. | More Settings button (EPL-6200L only): | Allows to you change more settings.
| Note:
If you change the settings, they are applied to all printers that have the same user interface.
6. | OK button: | Saves new changes.
7. | Cancel button: | Cancels any changes.
8. | Help button: | Opens online help for the Monitoring Preferences dialog box.
9. | Show Job Information check box (EPL-6200 only) | Select if you want information on the print job to be displayed.
10. | Noify end of print job check box (EPL-6200 only) | Select if you want EPSON Status Monitor 3 to inform you when a print job is done.

#### More Settings (EPL-6200L only)

You can monitor over routers or use the SMB protocol for communication to monitor Windows shared printers.

| Note:

This is a Windows XP/2000 screen.

1. | Use SMB for communication: | You can monitor using both Winsock1.1 and SMB if you select the Use SMB for communication check box. If you do not select it, you can monitor only using Winsock1.1.
2. | Monitor over routers: | In Windows XP/2000, you can monitor Windows shared printers over routers if you select the Monitor over routers check box.

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## Status Alert window

The Status Alert window appears automatically when an error occurs. It indicates what type of error has occurred and offers you a possible solution. It closes automatically once the problem is cleared.

The Status Alert window opens when an error has occurred. The window does not open when the error is set to do not notify in the Monitoring Preferences dialog box.

> EPL-6200

> EPL-6200L

If you wish to see information about printer consumables, click Consumables. Once this button is clicked, the Status Alert window will not disappear even after a problem is cleared. To close the box, you need to click Close.

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## Stopping monitoring

You can stop monitoring the printing status by clearing the Monitor the Printing Status check box in the printer driver's Utility menu (EPL-6200) or the Extended Settings dialog box (EPL-6200L) if you don't need to monitor the printer at all.

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The Monitor the Printing Status check box is displayed in the Utility menu of Document Defaults in Windows NT 4.0, or in the Utility menu of Printing Preference in Windows XP or 2000 for the EPL-6200.

You can find out the current printer status by clicking the EPSON Status Monitor 3 icon in the printer driver's Utility menu.

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## Selecting printers to be monitored (EPL-6200 only)

You can use "Monitored Printers" utility, to change the type of printers that EPSON Status Monitor 3 will monitor. When you install the EPSON Status Monitor 3, this utility is also installed. Usually, it is not necessary to change a setup. Use this utility when you want to change the settings for some reason.

| Click Start, point to Program, point to EPSON Printers, then click Monitored Printers.

| Clear the check box of the printers which are not monitored.

| Click OK.

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