It's gotten so that printers are inexpensive, and the hassle involved with
getting an older slower printer to work may not be worth the effort.
This happened to me with older epson dot matrix printers some years ago,
then with couple of cannon printers, a panasonic laser, and finally a
brother all in one. My epson R300 is starting to show it's age. Funny
enough, I have a cannon S750 that ""knock on wood" has turned out to be an
inexpensive to operate, long lived printer. So far it's outlasted two newer
printers, a brother and several older printners. It may even outlast the
R300, which was originally bought to replace the S750.

"Alberto Vitiello" wrote in message
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Tks for your answer.

I will try. If no chance, I will buy a new printer!

Alberto

"Chuck" ha scritto nel messaggio
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I routinely disable the status monitor because it can cause problems with
networked printers and other printer status monitors.

In any event, you should get either a printing error or incorrect output
colors when the ink is very low.
Beyond that, the R200 is slow and of just average printing quality when
compared with the "latest and greatest".

In desperation, I ended up replacing a slow Brother 420CN all in one with
an Epson WF 600. The Epson 600 out of the box is much faster than my
R300, and produces good to very good quality results. In fact, the
yellow/green transition is seemingly more accurate on the WF 600. Epson
sort of lied about "built in double sided" printing, in that there is no
duplexer on this model.

"Alberto Vitiello" wrote in message
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I have this printer from some years and I'm happy with it. Now the
problem is with Win Vista. There is not a specific drive for this Printer
under Vista.
The printer print ok, no problem for this, the problem is the Printer
Monitor that can not see the inks status. So I can not know if a
cartridge is out of ink.
Tried to contact Espon for new driver but no chance.
Any Idea?
TIA

Alberto Vitiello
Milano - Italy