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Epson 1290 can't print from Win7 x64
I recently installed Win7 Home Premium x64 on my desktop PC, which is dual boot with Linux. My printer is an Epson 1290 – old now but prints without any problem from Linux when I'm booted into that. Windows 7 recognized the printer during installation, as I had it powered up, and and installed it as "Epson Stylus Photo 1290 (M)". However, any print I send to it from any app, including the "Print test page" from the printer properties dialog, goes to the print queue, then disappears from there, but nothing prints out and the printer never gives any indication of having received anything (the green ready LED normally blinks when the printer is receiving data). There's also nothing in the Windows event logs to indicate any problem with printing or with the printer. Windows can actually see the printer, as it tells me that it's ready, I can get the printing preferences dialog Main tab to show me the ink levels in the printer when I click on "Get ink levels", and from the Maintenance tab of the dialog the "print head alignment" option does actually print out the alignment check pages ok on the oprinter, but attempting to send a normal print from any application just seems to result in the print disappearing into the bit bucket. As I mentioned above, I can boot into Linux and print without any problem, so it doesn't seem that there's any problem with the printer hardware or with the interface to the PC, but the problem lies in Windows somewhere. Any suggestions on a fix?