Epson 760 Printing Problem on HDD 1

[DaredevilUK]

HDD 1: Western Digital Caviar 40GB Special Edition 8MB Cache

HDD 2: IBM 7200RPM

Printer: Epson Stylus Colour 760

Hi, I have this weird printing problem when using HDD 1. The CPU goes to 100% and the printing becomes slow. However if I use HDD 2 there is no problem at all.

First thing that I thought it would be is software related so I formatted HDD 1 and even fresh from format with nothing but printer drivers installed it does the same thing.

This doesn?t happen on small text only prints but on more intense ones such as full excel sheets and screen prints.

As stated above everything is 100% fine when I use HDD 2 on the machine.

Both HDD?s are running the FAT32 file system. I even changed HDD 2 from NTFS and still no luck.

Please could someone help me with this.

Regards, Yoshi

I really think this might be a hardware issue on HDD 1 but its strange because its just this one problem, other than this HDD 1 runs perfect.

 

[DaredevilUK]

Two other things:

My OS is Windows XP with SP1

I have tried HDD 1 on its own in the machine and still no result.

 

[capricorn]

That's a weird one.

The only thing that comes to mind is that when you print, you document is spooled to the hard disk and then there is a background program that reads the spool and sends the data to the printer. Maybe the spool file is getting messed up on the WD disk. Try shutting off spooling and see what happens. I still can't give you a clue about what it means if there's a difference, but you might get a bit closer to an answer.

-cap

 

[DaredevilUK]

Originally posted by: capricorn
That's a weird one.

The only thing that comes to mind is that when you print, you document is spooled to the hard disk and then there is a background program that reads the spool and sends the data to the printer. Maybe the spool file is getting messed up on the WD disk. Try shutting off spooling and see what happens. I still can't give you a clue about what it means if there's a difference, but you might get a bit closer to an answer.

-cap

Thank you for the reply. How would I turn off spooling?

 

[bacillus]

I would also try unchecking automatically search for network folders & printers in folder options>view

 

[capricorn]

I have an Epson 740 connected to my Win XP box, but I'd guess it's nearly the same.

1. Start Button -> Printers and Faxes

2. Right click on Epson Stylus Color 7x0 and choose Properties from the pop-up menu.

3. In the Epson Stylus Color 7x0 Properties dialog, click on the Advanced tab.

4. Choose the "Print directly to the printer" radio button, which will deselect the "Spool print documents so program finishes printing faster."

5. Hit the Apply or OK button. (OK applies the changes and closes the dialog.)

Try printing again and see what happens.

-cap