About Epson Status Monitor 2; Accessing Epson Status Monitor 2 - Epson FX-880 User Manual

About EPSON Status Monitor 2

EPSON Status Monitor 2 is a utility program for Windows 95
that allows you to monitor your printer's status, alerts you
when printer errors occur, and provides troubleshooting
instructions when needed. This chapter tells you how to use
the Status Monitor to get printer status information and how to
set the background monitoring feature to automatically alert
you whenever your printer's status changes.
For more information on using EPSON Status Monitor 2, see
the online help included with this utility.
Before using the Status Monitor, be sure to read the README
file located on Disk 1 of the EPSON Status Monitor 2 software.
You can also find this README file in the EPSON Status
Monitor 2 folder, located in the EPSON folder on your hard
drive. This file contains the latest information on the Status
Monitor.
If you have not installed the Status Monitor yet, see "Installing
the EPSON Status Monitor 2 utility" on page 2-7 for
instructions.

Accessing EPSON Status Monitor 2

After you install EPSON Status Monitor 2 and restart your
computer, the Status Monitor starts automatically and adds a
printer-shaped background monitoring icon to the taskbar at
the bottom of your computer screen.
Double-click the background monitoring icon to open the
window shown on the next page. (You can also open this
window from Start. Click Start, point to Programs, then
Epson, then click the EPSON Status Monitor icon.)
6-2
Using EPSON Status Monitor 2