Epson Workforce 3250 connectivity issue?

This probably has to do with BIOS initialization and when BIOS hands off to the operating system and initiates the printer driver. When you boot the comptuer, BIOS starts first, does a hardware check and then "hands off" the hardware driver layer to Windows who then picks up the handle and continues to initiate loading of drivers and executing the operating system. What I am saying is, that your printer driver requires operating system initialization - it does not automatically get detected "on the fly" or that is, like plugging and unplugging most USB devices. Most BUT NOT ALL, USB devices install a permanent device driver or Windows provides a generic device driver when it detects a plug in from the USB port. However, if the driver is written so that it requires initialization at boot time, this won't work. This is particularly true of older printers and older operating systems - Pre XP especially, but a lot of driver issues like this at the XP operating system as well...USB was pretty good in XP but there were still bugs and this is one of them. I am going to assume you have XP on your laptop or that the driver is specifically written to initialize on bootup only.

Check to see if all connections are secure and in place

Start Windows 7

Devices and printers

Right click your printer icon

Select see what's printing

Click on the word printer

Remove check to use Printer Offline

If above does not help, you need to reinstall the software

Wireless

Reset the IP address

Turn printer off

Reboot the computer

Turn the printer on

If the problem continues

Reinstall the printer software

Epson Wf3250