N4646W

Oh Boy, well last of my raptor drives took a dive. Have one left with Win 10 which I have been playing with just in case. Well, I cannot figure out how to get my Epson 9600 printers installed. These are on a network, TCPI connection. They both show up in Epson Net Config, but will not install. Win 10 will not even recognize them under printers, and installing the drivers from the win install location does not work.

Anyone run into this problem? Just rebuilt both printers and they work beautifully and I definitely will not give them up. Right now I can't afford another $300 for new raptor Hd's.

Ron

WayneT Loc: Paris, TN

The driver shows Windows 10 both 32 and 64 bit as compatible with this printer. Have you tried to reinstall the driver on the system it's attached to. It could also be a network problem not a printer problem.

N4646W

I got the correct drivers, (XP 64 bit) and the Win 10 Net config. There are no other 64 bit drivers available. As far as the network, an Epson tech who has been extremely helpful over the last year, logged onto my system when I upgraded the modem and router to sort out a problem, ran some checks and said there was no problem with the network.

I have managed to get my Win 7 disk low leveled, so I will most likely reinstall Win 7 this weekend.

The printers are 60 feet from this computer, connected to a switch and then to a router. Computer is connected directly to the router. They worked great with Win 7 64 bit OS once we figured out to check one silly little check box in the printer settings.

Ron

Michael Hartley Loc: Deer Capital of Georgia

That's why I have my printers hooked up to a dedicated XP Pro machine. It was just to much headache to try to reconfigure everything, to run on the newer operating systems. And they are, Happy, Happy.

N4646W

That will work. Just wondering if Win 10 will talk to an XP machine? Had a devil of a time keeping XP and Win 7 talking to each other.

Ron

Michael Hartley Loc: Deer Capital of Georgia

I doubt it. I just use a thumb drive, pop out of one, and into the other.

N4646W

That works, but I just reloaded Win7 on all the systems instead. At least it will load the 64 bit drivers and I know how to get around the system to find all the little tweaks I need.

Will admit, as much as I dislike Win 10, it sure does process things faster. But, when the files are transferred to another drive to be accessed by an earlier OS, the file structure is different and the earlier OS will do a diskchk, which depending on the size, can take quiet some time. I tried to opt out, and the disk was not readable by the older OS. Would not even show up in disk management until I rebooted the system and let it do a dskcheck.

Ron