Epson R230 Printing Difficulties

I have a home network with 3 wireless laptops (2 XP Home and 1 XP Pro), 1
wireless desktop (XP Home) and 1 ethernet desktop (XP Pro). I have two
printers; 1 attached to the wireless desktop and 1 attached to the ethernet
desktop. The printer attached to ethernet desktop is a new Epson R230 InkJect
Printer. I have configured the shared Epson printer on all PCs and it works
fine from all except 1 of the XP Home laptops (an IBM ThinkPad R50e).

Trying to print from this laptop (using any application) seems to drive the
spooler on the laptop into a loop taking 90-100% CPU for minutes before
coming up with an error message that it cannot communicate with the printer.
Right clicking on the Epson printer icon in the Systray brings up the printer
properties without a problem although it seems to take longer than on any
other PC on the network. Going to "Printers and Faxes" shows the Epson
printer installed as default and working correctly. This same laptop has no
problem printing to the HP DeskJet 640C that is connected to the wireless
desktop.

My question is why does this laptop have a problem printing to the Epson
over the network when it works perfectly from the other two wireless laptops
and the setup is exactly the same? (All PCs are SP2 and right up to date with
all Windows XP patches).

The PC with the problem has corrupted Epson drivers.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"Peter Fowler" wrote in message
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I have a home network with 3 wireless laptops (2 XP Home and 1 XP Pro), 1
wireless desktop (XP Home) and 1 ethernet desktop (XP Pro). I have two
printers; 1 attached to the wireless desktop and 1 attached to the
ethernet
desktop. The printer attached to ethernet desktop is a new Epson R230
InkJect
Printer. I have configured the shared Epson printer on all PCs and it
works
fine from all except 1 of the XP Home laptops (an IBM ThinkPad R50e).

Trying to print from this laptop (using any application) seems to drive
the
spooler on the laptop into a loop taking 90-100% CPU for minutes before
coming up with an error message that it cannot communicate with the
printer.
Right clicking on the Epson printer icon in the Systray brings up the
printer
properties without a problem although it seems to take longer than on any
other PC on the network. Going to "Printers and Faxes" shows the Epson
printer installed as default and working correctly. This same laptop has
no
problem printing to the HP DeskJet 640C that is connected to the wireless
desktop.

My question is why does this laptop have a problem printing to the Epson
over the network when it works perfectly from the other two wireless
laptops
and the setup is exactly the same? (All PCs are SP2 and right up to date
with
all Windows XP patches).