I continued to dig through the manual, figured out a term that I had misunderstood (causing me to skip the relevant section of the manual), and found a step that needed to be done. And that was to disable WI-FI (as I am wired to my router).  Of course I was not connected via WI-FI (ran into some kind of issue with my firewall so I just wired the thing). And I have no idea why I went from 'occasional failures' to 'cannot print a single, darn thing' by  doing nothing more than finding and opening a jpg to be printed.  But I am going to mark this one solved, as I do seem to be able to print again.  dave  dave
I am suddenly having a problem with my 1 month old Epson WF4650 printer. My setup at home is pretty simple 1) Printer is wired (Ethernet) to a conventional Netgear router 2) I have two laptops (both Dell laptps) that print wirelessly (one is Vista and one is Win7) to my router (and that stuff used to go to the printer) 3) Things have pretty much worked, although I did often get a message from the "Printers and Devices" dialog under Status which is "Error - Printing". It would happen occasionally, I would cancel the job, and re-print, and it would work. I would say that this happened maybe 1 out of every 5 jobs. Earlier today I printed a job with no problem, then I tried to print another short document. I am getting the "Error - Printing" message. And now everything that I try to print creates that end result.  Things that that do not help. 1) Restart my PC 2) Print a different document (a Wordpad doc with one line) 3) Print from the other computer.  4) Restart EVERYTHING (laptop, printer, router) - I also did a 'hard restart" on the printer (unplugged it) 5) Re-setting the ethernet connectors between my router and printer 6) My PRINTERS folder is empty (print spooler thingey) 7) The printer seems fine for purposes of printing status information from the control panel 8) I find the User Guide mostly puzzling in the context of networking stuff. I don't even see my configuration listed, but I cannot imagine it not being supported (plus it worked for a month). But I just don't know enough to be able to comprehend what it is telling me.  I am having zero problems with internet traffic, BTW. Cable modem connection.  I have done an IPCONFIG /renew but that was not helpful. My network savvy is about zero. I can't even tell from the output of IPCONFIG  /all whether or not my printer is known to be wired to my router.  I'm not sure where I should next look (printer, router, laptop, combination, etc). Suggestions?  Thanks.; dave
Debugging a "Wired/Wireless Printer Connection"