Let be a compact Hausdorff space, X a Banach space, C( , X) the Banach space of continuous X-valued functions on under the uniform norm, U : C( , X) → Y a bounded linear operator and U # , U # two natural operators associated to U . For each 1 ≤ s < ∞, let the conditions (α) U ∈ s (C( , X), Y ); (β) U # ∈ s (C( ), s (X, Y )); (γ ) U # ∈ s (X, s (C( ), Y )). A general result, [10,13], asserts that (α) implies (β ) and (γ ). In this paper, in case s = 2, we give necessary and sufficient conditions that natural operators on C([0, 1], l p ) with values in l 1 satisfies (α), (β) and (γ ), which show that the above implication is the best possible result.