Wireless printing issues please help

I have a desktop that is connected to an epson printer. I have tried this desktop on windows vista and windows xp with the same result they lock up when i try to print. I have a dell m1330 laptop, a sony laptop and another desktop that is hard wired where the 2 laptops are both wireless. I have the desktop connected directly to the printer and it works fine from that desktop only. It will lock up when i try to print with the 2 laptops and the desktop that is not directly connected to the printer. I have them all connected through a dlink dir-655. What's my problem?

 

I feel your pain. Wireless printing sucks

 

Did you update the firmware to the latest sharepoint enabled firmware, did you install the dlink sharpoint software on the machines that will be using the printer, the bad part is if you have done all these things, you will almost need a voodo doctor or exorcist to get the printer going.

 

Model of Epson? USB? Parallel?

What computer and what OS is the printer connected to right now? (don't move things around, you make it harder to disagnose)

 

i am not doing it the share point way. It is plugged into the desktop. I have firmware 1.21 install. I have windows xp sp3 connected right now.

 

usb, epson cx7400 all in one. I have had it working before perfectly this way and one day it just stopped so i reformatted the desktop it's connected to and sure enough it didn't fix it.

 

I have the same printer.

I am aware of this lockup you talk about. It takes like 5 minutes to print through a network share. However, locally, it prints just fine.

It is an issue with the Epson printer driver.

I solved it by a small workaround.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=250749&highlight=epson

 

i will try that and let you know thanks

 

for your instructions is that to be used on the desktop that is directly connected to the printer via usb or for the laptop your setting up to print through the router than the desktop than printer?

 

It will print through the router then through the desktop to the printer.

I assume the desktop that is directly connected to the printer via USB is printing just fine.

 

@surfasb:

Would this problem be corrected by hooking the printer up to a network print server (either wired or wireless, although wired would probably be simpler to start with)?

 

@ Shyster1

I don't believe it would, although I have not tried. The solution entails "fooling" the printer driver into thinking it is printing to a local printer when it is really printing to a local port that is pointed at a network share. Although not confirmed, this sounds like a driver issue.

 

That sounds about right; to my uneducated self it sounds like the driver itself is simply incapable of "seeing" anything other than a local printer as a valid place to send documents to. In that case, using a print server wouldn't help since you'd still have to "fool" the driver into treating the network port as a "local printer."

 

How about NET USE?

Example:

NET USE [LPT1:] \\ComputerName\printer_share /PERSISTENT:YES

Sounds like that would work as well....

 

I'm not sure how Windows applications will behave if the printer is configured this way. I remember you could use this command to allow DOS programs to print to LPT1. I don't recall it showing up in windows print dialogs though. I'll have to try it out.

 

Well, I think I'll just leave the rest of the discussion to the experts!

 

Should show up as a normal printer connected to an LPT port--though if you have an LPT port on the computer, you should use LPT2 so it maps.

 

well sorry for the late update. I just re setup my network by running all of my ethernet cable again and moving my router. I installed set point and am using it with no issues. Stupid epson driver

 

congrats! a pox on stupid epson drivers

 

not everything is Microsoft's fault. LOL. I blame everything on the multitude of hardware driver writers out there!

 

i blame everything on surfasb....