Epson Printer Status Monitor / Windows 8

bertles86 · 8 Feb 2013 at 09:08

Hi,

My folks have a new Win 8 x64 laptop and an old Epson D92 printer.

The driver for it works fine, but the Epson Status Monitor (for ink levels, head cleaning, alignment etc.) does not.

I found a third party piece of software but the D92 is unsupported.

Any ideas how to align and clean print heads on Windows 8?

Sighn · 8 Feb 2013 at 10:58

You're not able to get to your printer via Control Panel?

bertles86 · 8 Feb 2013 at 19:29

Yes, but there are no properties due to the basic driver.

I need a driver that supports nozzle cleaning and alignment.

theheyes · 8 Feb 2013 at 20:21

What driver are you currently using for it? The new one off the website?

bertles86 · 8 Feb 2013 at 20:44

The latest driver advertised for W8 on the Epson website doesn't work, at install it says it doesn't work on this OS.

The driver that works is built in to W8, but only let's you print not maintain or monitor.

Sighn · 8 Feb 2013 at 22:38

Have you tried using the Vista driver? For my particular Epson printer I am able to use either it (x64) for my install of Windows 8.

theheyes · 9 Feb 2013 at 10:33

Yeah, the built in driver is just a class driver that gets you basic functionality. As above, try the Windows 7 or Vista driver.

bertles86 · 9 Feb 2013 at 18:06

Vista 32 driver worked a treat.