Monitoring Your Printer with EPSON Status Monitor 3
About the EPSON Status Monitor 3
The EPSON Status Monitor 3 is a utility program that monitors your printer and gives you
information about its current status. For example, you can find out the amount of the remaining
service life of the developer cartridge through this utility. If a print error occurs, the utility
provides you with a message describing the error. The EPSON Status Monitor 3 is accessed from
within the printer driver. See the following section for more information.
Accessing the EPSON Status Monitor 3
For Mac OS X 10.5 users
Follow these steps to access the EPSON Status Monitor 3:
1. Open System Preferences, and then click the
Print & Fax
icon.
2. Select your printer from the Printers list and click
Open Print Queue
.
3. Click the
Utility
icon.
For Mac OS X 10.4 or below users
Follow these steps to access the EPSON Status Monitor 3:
1. Click
in the File menu of any application. The Print dialog box appears.
2. Select
Printer Settings
in the list where Copies & Pages is displayed.
3. Select
Utilities
tab, and then click EPSON Status Monitor 3 icon.
Getting printer status details
You can monitor printer status and obtain information on consumable products using the EPSON
Status Monitor 3 dialog box.
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