Epson EPL-6100 Reference Manual page 54

To access the EPSON Status Monitor 3 from Windows, click
Start, point to Settings, and click Printers. Next, right-click
The EPL-6100 advanced icon and click Properties (in
Windows Me, 98, or 95), Printing Preferences (in Windows
XP or 2000) or Document Defaults (in Windows NT 4.0).
Then click the Utility tab, and click the EPSON Status Monitor
3 icon to start the EPSON Status Monitor 3.
Note:
Do not clear the Monitor the printing status check box. If you clear the
check box, the Status Alert window no longer comes up to notify you
when an error occurs and your printer may not recover from some errors.
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