Compatibility & certificates

Epson business printers are certified to work seamlessly in most widely used IT environments and will easily integrate into an existing or new network.

Windows - SAP - Citrix - Linux & Unix - Novell

Windows

Epson printers are compatible with most common Microsoft operating systems.

Click here for a list of Windows Vista compatible Epson products

SAP

SAP is one of the most popular Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software solutions. Thanks to our ESC/P, PCL and PostScript compatible emulations a large range of Epson business printers are able to print formatted documents using SAP. This includes lasers, dot matrix and inkjet printers.

Epson printers compatible with SAP. SAP Release Note 153879

The latest list of SAP compatible Epson printers is available to SAP customers on their web site. For more information please visit www.sap.com

BarSTORM

A unique multi-port barcode print server & network bridge enabling auto barcode printing, with flash memory for additional data storage

Install the BarSTORM unit centrally, for example in a 'coms' room or server room, connect the unit to a 10baseT/100baseTX TCP/IP network, then depending how the unit is licensed, up to 50 network attached PCL printers can be served with barcodes, fonts and overlays across the network, from a single unit. www.fontware.com/barstorm

TEC-IT

TBarCode/SAPwin is a Barcode DLL for SAP R/3. It extends SAPsprint, SAPlpd and Sapwin DLL with bar code generation capabilities. With TBarCode/SAPwin you can print all popular bar code formats on all Windows printers – there is no need for a special bar code printer, bar code cartridge or font extension. www.tec-it.com/sap

Citrix

Citrix continues to gain momentum in a wide range of industries including healthcare, insurance, banking, manufacturing, automotive and telecommunications. This demonstrates the value that Citrix access infrastructure brings to any organization that needs to make information easily, securely and instantly available to anyone, from anywhere, at anytime. Regardless of the access device or network they are using or the type of information source they are accessing.
Due to concerns such as rationalizing IT equipment, ensuring secure connections and reducing cost of IT systems maintenance, more and more companies are choosing to migrate to the Citrix environment.
Epson understands the importance of Citrix and makes it easy to share printing resources for Citrix. All Epson printer drivers are compatible with Windows NT4 TSE and Windows 2000. Therefore, users can enjoy easy and secure printing under Citrix Meta frame XP with the full range of Epson printers.

To check that your Epson printer is Citrix compliant, please click here

To check that your Epson business scanner is Citrix compliant, please click here

For details on how Epson printers were certified for the Citrix environment, please refer to the Epson certification test procedure (available in English only)

Linux and Unix

Many printers nowadays have an embedded PostScript interpreter, which is in charge of rendering the pages to paper using their PostScript description. All modern Linux desktop applications that have a print option will produce PostScript data to print full-page documents.
While PostScript is the de facto standard for producing documents to be printed on Linux, the printer itself doesn’t have to understand PostScript. In many cases, especially with entry level printers, PostScript data will have to be translated to the native page description language of the printer through the use of a special conversion filter.

There are a number of good systems to choose from. CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) is a good option and recommended for most users; it has excellent PostScript printer support, offers IPP support, a Web interface, and a number of other features.
Epson provides a wide range of Linux compatible printing and scanning solutions.
You can download drivers to support Linux from http://www.avasys.jp/english/index_e.html

Epson tests and certifies most common Linux and Unix platforms with our printers. Click below for more details:

EPSON Avasys - Inkjet

EPSON Avasys – Laser

EPSON Avasys – Scanner

EPSON Avasys – MFP

EPSON Avasys – All in One

Novell

Customers using Novell can print with their Epson printers using the certified EpsonNet NDPS Gateway version 2.3.

For the list of Epson products certified for the Novell environment, please click here.

EpsonNet NDPS Gateway certificate: http://developer.novell.com/yes/75717.htm (available in English only)