Epson printer issues with Windows 11

My god, the fury and hatred that wells up in me E-V-E-R-Y time I go to print something is indescribable. I have literally wasted MONTHS of my life, possibly even YEARS of my life, fighting printer and scanner driver issues since the mid '80s. The level of anger is at PURE RAGE now.

What usually works for me (for this current computer-OS-printer combination of rage-inducing BS), and usually only after fighting it anywhere from 15 minutes to 3 to 6 or more hours, is to go the Services tool, open it with "Administrator" privileges, that is, right-click it then choose "Run as administrator", then scroll down the long list of items and find "Print Spooler", right-click it then select "Restart".

Yeah, I have Windows 11 and an ET-4500 series printer and it appears "Offline" EVERY time I go to print something whether it's a day later or a month or many months later. I use my computer every day but I don't print every day. (Which is a whole different issue when print quality with ink-jet printers is concerned. Down right atrocious.)

I'm pretty sure the problem is due to lame **** developers at Epson who don't know how to follow the rules for coding drivers for printers. Whatever the case, I'm fighting my printer now. I even went so far as to call support, which I never do because it is almost always a waste of time: "Did you try turning it off and on?", "Did you try reinstalling the drivers?", "Can you call back on a Tuesday because we built our software to only work on Tuesdays?" (Yeah, that last one is not a real response though, I got a response almost as lame as that not too long ago.)

The problem today seems related to the printer thinking the Wi-Fi signal to the router is bad (it is Comcrap's, I mean Crapcast's, I mean Crapfinity's, I mean Xfinity's modem/router). This Wi-Fi signal issue seems new since the "restart the Print Spooler" trick used to work fairly well.

Whatever, I'm going to just recycle this gawd-awful piece of junk Epson printer and buy an HP. The issue I've had with Canon printers is that the ink dries and easily clogs up the ink-jet printer and I could never get it to work very well because only half the ink would come out and onto the page after a time. I thought with this Eco-Tank thing from Epson maybe they had actually addressed the dry ink problem. But no, this printer ... when it worked ... only barely worked if I ran many multiple head-cleaning tasks. But with that, the problem with this Epson ET-4500 is that the corners of my pages would end up looking they got dipped in ink. One corner or the other would be wet with black ink that I had to treat carefully until it dried.

Hell for me would be putting me in the back office of a company and making me make ink-jet printers work for the rest of eternity.

epson printers are trash. i have a et-4810 which I have spent hours trying to connect. still no luck.

Peri Blum, just like you, nothing I did helped [the windows shared printer feature (an Epson WF-2830 via USB), which is connected to a windows-10 primary computer on a private peer to peer network, a windows 11 Spro 8 hits a wall and never connects to the

printer device.]. We donated the WF-2830, and replaced it with a ET-8550 which plays nice on our network of win 10 and win-11 pcs. Pete

Everything has failed to set up a WF-C4810. Support couldn't set it up. I run a business and am ready to throw it out. What a waste of money!!!!!

Hi anyone who reads this.

Manually assigning a printer port has solved the issue. I have turned printer on an off numerous times, family have been to the house and tapped into my wifi on many occasions and the printer now always prints first time.

It is necessary to assign the same port an on any PC that wishes to use the printer, and I needed to reset up the cloud print service, but all is now working reliably.