The Status monitor software came on the C84 CD along with the drivers... the old status monitor that came originally with the 1200 doesn't work under XP (can't find that d*&mned CD anyway).

I discovered that both will actually PRINT perfectly so long as I completely disable the status monitor... but with the price of Epson ink's, I don't want one of them unexpectedly running empty when I'm trying to print something critical.

Epson finally responded with a really, REALLY convoluted set of instructions to try... after I give it a whirl, I'll let you know what happens... but I don't hold a lot of hope for this.

It's my personal belief is that Epson NEVER expected these two models to work together with the monitor... so we'll see what happens!