Please help, I have Epson EPL-5800L laser printer. It work find with
Windows XP but stopped printing now with Vista home.

lhs573;828829 Wrote:
Please help, I have Epson EPL-5800L laser printer. It work find with
Windows XP but stopped printing now with Vista home.

Unfortunately, as this printer is not on the vista compatability
list, and no specific drivers have been written, it looks as if it will
not work with vista unless it will work with the XP drivers that you
have. the only other option i can offer is to see if you can find a
vista driver for a similar model of epson laser printer


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Please help, I have Epson EPL-5800L laser printer. It work find with
Windows XP but stopped printing now with Vista home.

Vista has drivers for the EPL 5800 for PCL and also PS3 printing but not the
L version. I don't know what the difference between the two are but you may
try that driver. There is also an EPL 6100L driver that might work. Keep
experimenting as this older laser printer will probably never have a
specific Vista driver created for it.

Depending on how you are attempting to connect the printer to the computer
(Parallel or USB to Parallel cable) the setup is different. For Parallel
cable, click Add printer and then select LPT1, then Epson in the dropdown
and then the printer driver you want to try. You will probably receive a
message about incorrect driver but allow it to install anyway. Test it.
Works, you are probably done. Doesn't work, uninstall the printer and
repeat with a different driver.

Good luck.