An Epson Stylus Photo R800 printer will not print envelopes from Word 2003
Pro. It goes to "manual" rather than to "sheet feed" despite everything I
have tried. I have contacted Epson support. They say it is a Microsoft
problem. Everything except envelopes prints normally.

They would say that wouldn't they - but yours is not the first complaint
raised here about this series of Epson printers. Epson is responsible for
the driver - Word will only do what the driver allows it to do.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Blivot wrote:
An Epson Stylus Photo R800 printer will not print envelopes from Word
2003 Pro. It goes to "manual" rather than to "sheet feed" despite
everything I have tried. I have contacted Epson support. They say
it is a Microsoft problem. Everything except envelopes prints
normally.

But then what do I do now? The printer was really hyped as a fantastic photo
printer. I have not tried it for that yet. Your response is really
discouraging. I thought I was buying a good thing. What do you recommend
for high quality photo printing?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

They would say that wouldn't they - but yours is not the first complaint
raised here about this series of Epson printers. Epson is responsible for
the driver - Word will only do what the driver allows it to do.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Blivot wrote:
An Epson Stylus Photo R800 printer will not print envelopes from Word
2003 Pro. It goes to "manual" rather than to "sheet feed" despite
everything I have tried. I have contacted Epson support. They say
it is a Microsoft problem. Everything except envelopes prints
normally.

The fact that there is a hiccup with the envelope printing doesn't affect
the printer's ability to print photographs. There are two things you could
try - one is to set the envelope bin in the registry try a value of 7 at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\W ord\EPSON Photo R800.

My web site appears to be unavailable at the moment, and I am out of the
country until later today (13/2/2005) so will not be able to thrash my web
host company until Monday. If you can wait until then, see
http://www.gmayor.com/epson_envelope_orientation.htm

The other thing to try is to create a template for envelopes (you'll find a
sample on my web site when it returns) and set the paper source in the page
layout. You can then use the template rather than the envelope wizard to
create envelopes.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org





Blivot wrote:
But then what do I do now? The printer was really hyped as a
fantastic photo printer. I have not tried it for that yet. Your
response is really discouraging. I thought I was buying a good
thing. What do you recommend for high quality photo printing?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

They would say that wouldn't they - but yours is not the first
complaint raised here about this series of Epson printers. Epson is
responsible for the driver - Word will only do what the driver
allows it to do.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Blivot wrote:
An Epson Stylus Photo R800 printer will not print envelopes from
Word 2003 Pro. It goes to "manual" rather than to "sheet feed"
despite everything I have tried. I have contacted Epson support.
They say
it is a Microsoft problem. Everything except envelopes prints
normally.