The file epstssrv.exe, known as ESC/POS Status Service, belongs to software ESC/POS Status Service by Seiko Epson. Epson manufactures a series of POS printers that is supported by the executable file ESC/POS Status Service. Point of sale (POS) printers uses thermal paper for the fast printing of up to 300 mm/second for both text and graphics. Restaurants, banks, retail and other heavy use environments benefit from the use of these printers that are easy to use and feature a dual interface. POS printers utilize thermal printing, which is a digital printing process that produces a printed image by selectively heating coated thermochromic paper or thermal paper when the paper passes over the thermal print head. The coating turns black in the areas where it is heated to produces an image. Thermal printing is notable for being a form of printing that does not require the use of ink.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. epstssrv.exe. is used by ESC/POS Status Service, If you shut down epstssrv.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop epstssrv.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is ESC/POS Status Service, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed epstssrv.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as ESC/POS Status Service, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if epstssrv.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that epstssrv.exe, belongs to, in this case ESC/POS Status Service