Setting up the Epson WF-100 Printer for the Home-Care Physical Therapist

Having decided upon the Epson WF-100 to evaluate it’s usability for the home-care therapist, we discovered that is was reasonably easy to setup with both Android and iOS devices. The steps we took were:

Plug the printer into the wall to charge up the battery. Note that you can also charge up the battery with a USB cable which is a nice alternative when travelling between patients. It’s inexpensive to purchase a USB car charger that plugs into the cigarette lighter port of your car to charge the printer.
Turn on the printer and select the language on the LCD Screen. Default is English.
Follow the Quick Start guide to install the ink cartridges. Note that you need to install both the black ink and color ink cartridges. Press OK. Wait about 4 minutes for the printer to complete ink priming.
Setup Wi-Fi Direct on the printer. Wi-Fi Direct allows your smartphone to connect to the printer without cables or using your patient’s Wi-Fi network or using your phone as a Wi-Fi Hotspot.

On the printer, press the down arrowon the control panel once until Wi-Fi Setup is highlighted in the LCD screen. Press OK on the printer’s control panel.

Press the right arrowfive times until “Wi-Fi Direct Setup 6/6” is displayed in the Wi-Fi Setup Wizard. Press OK.

Press OK three times until the network SSID and Password are displayed.

Connect to this Wi-Fi network using the provided password on your smartphone’s Setting Menu. Note that your smartphone may indicate that you are not connected to the Internet but that’s OK.

iOS Set Up

Install Epson iPrint and Epson Printer Finder in the Apple App Store.
Make sure that you are connected to the printer’s Wi-Fi network.
Open Epson iPrint

Press ‘Agree’ on the Software License Agreement and Privacy Statement page
Press ‘OK’ on About Usage Survey page
Make sure WF-100 printer is found on the top of the page

iOS Printing from Chrome Browser
Open your preferred browser. In this example, we use Chrome.

Login to your PT-Helper CONNECT account
Select or create a patient profile
Select or create a patient treatment plan. Make sure that you are on the Exercise Details page.
Select the Print button to create a PDF file in a new tab on Chrome
Select the symbol at the top right of the screen

Slide the lower option bar to the left to find the print symbol. Select the print symbol.

Press ‘Printer’ to find the EPSON WF-100 Series if it is not currently displayed

Select the Options ‘Color’ to enable the option to change the print out to black and white as well as the option to change which pages are printed. Note that B&W printouts will save on the color ink.
Press ‘Print’ at the top right of the screen to print.

Android Set Up

Install Epson iPrint and Epson Print Enabler from the Google Play Store.
Make sure that you are connected to the printer’s Wi-Fi network.
Open Epson iPrint

Press ‘Agree’ on the Software License Agreement and Privacy Statement page
Press ‘OK’ on About Usage Survey page
Make sure WF-100 printer is found on the top of the page

Android Printing from Chrome Browser

Open your preferred browser. In this example, we use Chrome.

Login to your PT-Helper CONNECT account
Select or create a patient profile
Select or create a patient treatment plan. Make sure that you are on the Exercise Details page.
Select the Print button to create a PDF file in a new tab on Chrome