Epson Stylus 1280 & Vista printing issues

My wife has an Epson Stylus Photo 1280 printer. We installed the driver
from Vista the issue she is having is she cannot go into the printing
preferences to change the size (change the margins) it will not allow
here. She prints true 12x12's and under Vista it will not allow her to
change these setting under XP no problems.
I was able to set a user defined 12x12 paper size. It is not listed as
an option to print through the Windows Photo Gallery. And I can’t
print it through my Memory Mixer software, it wants to change the
dimensions and then it only prints a little square right in the middle
of the page.

Any help on this would be great

Thanks
Sean


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01pewterz28

verify the customsize setting is the same on Vista and XP.
Open the GPD for the printer in notepad (look on the install CD or on XP
with the driver installed under \windows\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3)


here is the data from the Vista 1280 M driver

*Option: CUSTOMSIZE
{
*rcNameID: =EPN_RCID_USER_DEFINED
*MinSize: PAIR(252200, 85000)
*MaxSize: PAIR(932600, 9288200)
*MaxPrintableWidth: 915800
*MinLeftMargin: 8400
*CenterPrintable?: FALSE

*switch: InputBin
{
*case: RollPaper
{
*TopMargin: 0
*BottomMargin: 0

*switch: Orientation
{
*case: PORTRAIT
{
*CustCursorOriginY: %d{0}
}
*case: LANDSCAPE_CC270
{
*CustCursorOriginY: %d{PhysPaperLength}
}
}
*CustCursorOriginX: %d{8400}
*CustPrintableOriginX: %d{8400}
*CustPrintableOriginY: %d{0}

*CustPrintableSizeX: %d{ min(595200, PhysPaperWidth - 16800) }
*CustPrintableSizeY: %d{ PhysPaperLength }
}
*default:
{
*TopMargin: 8400
*BottomMargin: 8400

*switch: Orientation
{
*case: PORTRAIT
{
*CustCursorOriginY: %d{8400}
}
*case: LANDSCAPE_CC270
{
*CustCursorOriginY: %d{PhysPaperLength - 8400}
}
}
*CustCursorOriginX: %d{8400}
*CustPrintableOriginX: %d{8400}
*CustPrintableOriginY: %d{8400}

*CustPrintableSizeX: %d{ min(595200, PhysPaperWidth - 16800) }
*CustPrintableSizeY: %d{ PhysPaperLength - 16800 }
}
}
}
}



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"01pewterz28" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> My wife has an Epson Stylus Photo 1280 printer. We installed the driver
> from Vista the issue she is having is she cannot go into the printing
> preferences to change the size (change the margins) it will not allow
> here. She prints true 12x12's and under Vista it will not allow her to
> change these setting under XP no problems.
> I was able to set a user defined 12x12 paper size. It is not listed as
> an option to print through the Windows Photo Gallery. And I can't
> print it through my Memory Mixer software, it wants to change the
> dimensions and then it only prints a little square right in the middle
> of the page.
>
> Any help on this would be great
>
> Thanks
> Sean
>
>
> --
> 01pewterz28

"01pewterz28" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> My wife has an Epson Stylus Photo 1280 printer. We installed the driver
> from Vista the issue she is having is she cannot go into the printing
> preferences to change the size (change the margins) it will not allow
> here. She prints true 12x12's and under Vista it will not allow her to
> change these setting under XP no problems.
> I was able to set a user defined 12x12 paper size. It is not listed as
> an option to print through the Windows Photo Gallery. And I can't
> print it through my Memory Mixer software, it wants to change the
> dimensions and then it only prints a little square right in the middle
> of the page.
>
> Any help on this would be great
>
> Thanks
> Sean
>
>
> --
> 01pewterz28

I would recommend that you uninstall the Vista supplied driver and go to
Epson's web site and install their printer driver for your 1280.

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/s...s&platform=All

I have absolutely no issue with my 1280 across a wireless network using
printer sharing on the computer it is hooked up to. I print from both Vista
32 bit and XP 32 bit systems.

according to Epsons web site the driver listed is for the 64bit versio
of Vista my wife has the 32bit version of Vista home. I spent 2.5 hour
on the phone with Epson last night with no luck. If you have the drive
for vista an you email them to me

thank
Sea

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01pewterz28

"01pewterz28" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> according to Epsons web site the driver listed is for the 64bit version
> of Vista my wife has the 32bit version of Vista home. I spent 2.5 hours
> on the phone with Epson last night with no luck. If you have the driver
> for vista an you email them to me
>
> thanks
> Sean
>
>
> --
> 01pewterz28

Reread the website posted:

Windows Operating Systems

[+] Epson EasyPrint v3.10A
Windows Vista 64-bit Edition compatible, Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
compatible, Windows XP, Windows XP 64-bit Edition, Windows 2000
easyprint - .1KB - posted on 12/21/06

Shows Vista compatible

oh yea the East Print yep we tried that last night still no luck :

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