Epson Color 740 meets XP, chaos

[motco]

I recently replaced my desktop with one running XP and my printer prints rubbish and my scanner won't work (Colorado). This is progress? :confused:

Does anyone know how to make my Epson Color Stylus 740 work on XP - Epson don't seem to?

[Jay-Aim]

have you tried to download the latest drivers for each?

>> Edited by Jay-Aim on Monday 30th May 09:19

[motco]

Thanks for your reply. Yes, Epson offer a driver for 2000 and XP but my o/s says that it might cause instability because the driver isn't designed specifically for XP. I don't want to use a driver that might screw the whole system. As for as the Primax Colorado scanner is concerned, Primax say they aren't issuing any more drivers - i.e "sod you, buy a new scanner!" The whole ethos of the computer industry really pees me off.

[Jay-Aim]

Do the necessary back up and install that driver.

Don't believe the hype. It's usual for a driver to be suitable for both W2k and XP as XP is build on W2k. So install it and see. You can always unload it after!

[Jay-Aim]

there you go

http://esupport.epson-europe.com/SoftwareListing.aspx?lng=en-GB&data=EE4D3260A90BCACF4E0BD04A64EE072378AE1CCB91A6D1EF0E0A6B008C762CDE

[Jay-Aim]

ditto for primax

www.primax.nl/

their front page does say use the same driver as W2k



you should be OK on both counts!

[motco]

Thanks, Jay Aim. I shall certainly try that.

[coopergreen]

Have you tried installing them in compatability mode. My HP scanner only works that way

[motco]

Actually, I hadn't - until my WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows stopped working sometime between loading it (when it did work) and loading a number of other applications, one of which must be inhibiting it. Compatibility mode didn't help WP6.1 but it might the others, I suppose. Microsoft Word now seems a more attractive wordprocessor