Epson Stylus Photo 1400 on a Mini Laptop running Vista SP2

OrcaBates · 06-28-2009, 05:35 PM

Sorry for double post I put it in the wrong section first.

This is a new computer all updates have been downloaded. Its an ASUS N10J running Vista Home Premium sp2.
The Printer is an Epson Stylus Photo 1400 driver version 6.10
The cables are fine the printer works fine on my Macbook Pro and it worked fine on my Sony Vaio prior to it getting stolen.

When I go to print the carriage moves around like its about to start printing, but then it stops, the print manager pops up and the blue bar fills up like its printing but nothing is happening on the printer. then the carriage moves around a couple more times and its done. nothing printed... no error messages. the print log is empty.

Printing a test page little box pops up and says it is sent to printer but the carriage does the same thing i just described before... any ideas?

I sent this to Epson support and ASUS support forum too so far nobody knows. Seeing how it works fine on the Mac and worked fine on the Sony I'm thinking it's gotta be something with the vista settings. I have looked through all the printer settings I could find in preferences and Advanced. I'm stumped. It's running on the USB virtual printer port. thats the only one that the printer responds at all to.

06-28-2009, 05:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
OrcaBates Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 3 OS: Vista SP2	Epson Stylus Photo 1400 on a Mini Laptop running Vista SP2 Sorry for double post I put it in the wrong section first. This is a new computer all updates have been downloaded. Its an ASUS N10J running Vista Home Premium sp2. The Printer is an Epson Stylus Photo 1400 driver version 6.10 The cables are fine the printer works fine on my Macbook Pro and it worked fine on my Sony Vaio prior to it getting stolen. When I go to print the carriage moves around like its about to start printing, but then it stops, the print manager pops up and the blue bar fills up like its printing but nothing is happening on the printer. then the carriage moves around a couple more times and its done. nothing printed... no error messages. the print log is empty. Printing a test page little box pops up and says it is sent to printer but the carriage does the same thing i just described before... any ideas? I sent this to Epson support and ASUS support forum too so far nobody knows. Seeing how it works fine on the Mac and worked fine on the Sony I'm thinking it's gotta be something with the vista settings. I have looked through all the printer settings I could find in preferences and Advanced. I'm stumped. It's running on the USB virtual printer port. thats the only one that the printer responds at all to.