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MikeSi Posted messages 55 Status Membre -  
kaneagle Posted messages 86263 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   -

Hello,

I’m addressing a topic that has already been raised on the printer forum and despite the valuable help from contributors, no solution has been found. The aim of this post is more to inform than to solve my problem.
I just bought an HP laptop running Windows 11. I downloaded a driver from the Epson website for my old Stylus Photo R265 (almost 20 years old): Detected OS W10x64 – proposed driver v.4.6.10.0 (I can also choose Win 11 but that leads to similar results). But it doesn't work, the computer and the printer "talk" to each other but the printed content does not match (blank page or an endless series of gibberish characters).
Since this printer works perfectly under Windows 10, can we conclude that Windows 11 continues its work by forcing us to throw away hardware?
Regards, Mike


 

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MPMP10 Posted messages 47002 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   18 845
 

Good evening,

<< This post is more about informing than solving my problem. >>

Yet on the other request!

<< Do you think that if I present my problem on a Windows forum, I might get a response? >>

https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-38236619-driver-windows-11-pour-epson-stylus-photo-r265#dernier

Duplicate.
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georges97 Posted messages 14507 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   2 897
 

Hello,

I acknowledge, like other readers, your information. Since specialists were unable to propose a solution more than Epson, I share below my understanding of the driver issue, based on my experience with all consumer versions of Windows since the first version 1.0 in 1985.

  1. Microsoft provides industrial clients with the evolutionary elements of its systems (for which they must register with them). Manufacturers, and they alone, are responsible for evolving the firmware of the hardware and the interfaces with the reference system.
  2. Every modification and distribution of OS patches must be considered by manufacturers and publishers to update their products.
  3. Manufacturers and publishers sometimes forego mobilizing resources to make these adjustments, due to lack of profitability for "parks" of hardware or software that are inevitably obsolete over time, like any industrial product, subject to the hell of fashion (see smartphones).
  4. Microsoft (which I am not defending the policies) cannot and should not ensure upstream monitoring of the developments, good or bad, that it adopts, which it cannot do since all commercial products are covered by copyrights and protected codes.
  5. And to respond to what I understood as a question can we conclude that Windows 11 continues its work by forcing hardware to be thrown away I will answer, while emphasizing that I leave the meaning regarding the work, I will say that no one has explained to us until today how we can go from 8 bits to 16 then 32, 64 and in the near future 128 without mentioning quantum computing without creating incompatibilities.
  6. I mention for pleasure the voluntary incompatibilities of brand cartridges versus generic ones, which are a matter of market protections.

We can all lament having to change hardware, but in my opinion, the responsibility lies more with the economic choices of manufacturers than with any Machiavellian intentions of the Grand Satan.

This is only my opinion.
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kaneagle Posted messages 86263 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   14 670
 

Hello,

 I downloaded a driver from the Epson site for my old Stylus Photo R265 (almost 20 years old): OS detected W10x64 – proposed driver v.4.6.10.0

On your other topic, did you try this driver --> Universal_Print_Driver_x64_212100?

I am closing this topic and the discussion should continue here --> https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-38236619-driver-windows-11-pour-epson-stylus-photo-r265#dernier
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