Selecting Settings on the Main Tab
Selecting the Media Type setting
Selecting the Color setting
Selecting the Mode setting
Selecting the Advanced settings
Checking Ink Levels
Previewing your printout
Using the Print Assistant function
The Main tab allows you to select the Media Type, Color, and Mode settings, and also check the ink cartridge status. You can also access the User’s Guide, paper information, and the Technical Support Web Site by clicking the Print Assistant button.
Selecting the Media Type setting
The Media Type setting determines what other settings are available in the printer driver, so make sure you always select this setting first.
Select the Media Type setting that matches the paper you loaded in the printer. See for a list of settings. For some types of paper, several Media Type settings are available.
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Media Type Setting
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Epson Media Name
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Premium Luster Photo Paper
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Ultra Premium Photo Paper Luster
Premium Luster Photo Paper
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Premium Glossy Photo Paper
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Premium Photo Paper Glossy
Premium Glossy Photo Paper
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Premium Semigloss Photo Paper
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Premium Photo Paper Semi-gloss
Premium Semi-gloss Photo Paper
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Proofing Paper Semimatte
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Proofing Paper Commercial Semimatte
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Plain Paper - Photo Black
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Enhanced Matte Paper
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Ultra Premium Presentation Paper Matte
Enhanced Paper Matte
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Archival Matte Paper
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Ultra Premium Presentation Paper Matte
Enhanced Paper Matte
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Velvet Fine Art Paper
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Velvet Fine Art Paper
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UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper
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UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper
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Watercolor Paper - Radiant White
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Watercolor Paper - Radiant White
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Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper
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Presentation Paper Matte
Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper
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Singleweight Matte Paper
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Singleweight Matte Paper
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Plain Paper - Matte Black
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Singleweight Matte Paper (line drawing)
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Singleweight Matte Paper
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Selecting the Color setting
Select Color to print color or monochrome photos, or Black to print a draft or black text only. If you want to fine-tune your monochrome prints, select Advanced B&W Photo.
Selecting the Mode setting
Select Automatic or Custom for the Mode setting.
Automatic mode is the quickest and easiest way to start printing. When Automatic is selected, the printer driver selects all of the detailed settings based on the Media Type and Color settings you select.
Depending on the Media Type, Color, and Mode settings you select, a Quality/Speed slider appears in the Mode box. Select Quality when print quality is more important than print speed, or select Speed when print speed is more important than print quality.
When Color is selected for the Color setting in Automatic Mode, the Color Control drop-down list appears in the Mode box.
You can select from the following settings.
EPSON Vivid
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Select this setting to enhance blue and green tones in your printouts.
Note: Because this setting reproduces blue and green tones that cannot be displayed by your monitor, your printouts may differ from the image on your screen when this option is selected.
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Charts and Graphs
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Enhances colors and lightens the midtones and highlights of an image. Select this setting when printing presentation graphics, such as charts and graphs.
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EPSON Standard (sRGB)
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Increases the contrast in your printouts. Select this setting when printing color photographs.
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Adobe RGB
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Matches the color in your image to the Adobe RGB color space.
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When you select Advanced B&W Photo as the Color setting in Automatic Mode, the Color Toning drop-down menu appears in the Mode box.
You can select from the following settings.
Neutral
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Provides standard image correction for most photos. Try this first.
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Cool
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Gives a cool tone to your printouts.
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Warm
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Gives a warm tone to your printouts.
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Sepia
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Applies a sepia tone to your printouts.
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The Custom mode lets you select a wide range of settings with a single mouse click.
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The preset custom settings may not appear, depending on the Media Type and Color setting you select.
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The Custom Settings drop-down list includes the following default custom settings.
Advanced Photo 2880
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Good for printing scanned photos and digitally captured images in high quality. Helps prevent misprinting of ink dots that may occur due to movement of the print head and paper.
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PhotoEnhance
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Lets you select image-correction settings specially designed for scanned or digitally captured photos.
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Selecting the Advanced settings
The Advanced settings give you complete control over your printing environment. Use these settings to experiment with new printing ideas, or to fine-tune a range of print settings to meet your individual needs. Once you are satisfied with your new settings, you can give them a name and add them to the Custom Settings drop-down list.
Follow these steps to select Advanced settings:
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Select Custom from the Main tab, and then click Advanced. You see a window like this one.
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Select Color to print color or monochrome photos, or Black to print a draft or black text only. If you want to fine-tune your monochrome prints, select Advanced B&W Photo.
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Select a Print Quality setting.
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If you are using non-Epson paper and are experiencing problems with print quality when using Epson Media Type settings, click the Paper Config button, and then select settings as necessary. For details, see Paper Configuration.
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Some settings are enabled or disabled depending on the Media Type, Color, and Print Quality settings you select.
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Select other settings as necessary. For details, see the on-screen help.
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Click OK to apply your settings and then return to the Main tab. If you want to return to the previous screen without applying your settings, click Cancel.
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The following settings in the Paper Configuration window let you select detailed paper settings.
Mode
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Description
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Color Density
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Adjusts the saturation of Colors. Use a value between –50% and +50%. Drag the slider to the right (+) to deepen the color saturation of your printout or left (–) to lighten the color saturation. You can also type a number (–50 to +50) in the text box next to the slider.
Use this setting when you print on non-Epson papers.
Set the slider to the 0 position when you print on Epson media.
Note: Adjusting the color saturation of a printout may not be possible, depending on the printing mode.
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Drying Time per Print Head Pass
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Pauses the print head for a specified period of time between passes.
Set this value using the slider or text box. To improve print quality by using slow ink absorption on the media, set a higher value.
The drying time per print head pass can be set from 0 to 5 seconds, in 0.1 second increments.
Note: If you use this setting, printing will take longer.
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Paper Feed Adjustment
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Controls the paper feeding value, in 0.01% increments. If the paper feeding value is too large, white horizontal micro banding may appear. If the paper feeding value is too small, dark horizontal micro banding may appear.
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Paper Thickness
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This value is set automatically according to the Media Type setting. If you use non-Epson media, modify this value for your media. Refer to the paper specifications, or see to print a Thickness Pattern to determine the paper thickness.
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Platen Gap
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The platen gap is the distance from the media loaded in the printer to the print head. By adjusting this setting, you can increase the print quality. This is set automatically according to the Paper Thickness setting specified.
Note: Setting Platen Gap to Narrow may produce better print quality, but make sure the media does not wrinkle or touch the print head; otherwise, the printout or the print head may be damaged. If this happens, select the Wider or Wide setting.
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Default button
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Click this button to return the settings to their factory default values.
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This setting provides color matching and image-enhancement features. When you select this setting, additional options appear under the Printer Color Management box where you can select a Mode setting and adjust the color enhancement sliders. For details on the additional settings, see the on-screen help.
When Advanced B&W Photo is selected as the Color setting, you see a window like this one. You can then adjust the advanced monochrome settings. For details on the settings, see the on-screen help.
This setting provides a variety of image-correction settings that you can apply to your printed image before printing. PhotoEnhance does not affect your original image files. When you select this setting, you should select the Digital Camera Correction settings.
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Digital Camera Correction
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If you are printing photos taken with a digital camera, select this checkbox to give your printed photos a smooth and natural appearance like that of photos taken with a film camera.
Select the Smooth Skin checkbox to adjust the image to make its skin color smooth.
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Off (No Color Adjustment)
This setting turns off the printer driver color management, which is useful if you are using a color management suite to print with ICC profiles. See Using Color Management for detailed information.
This setting uses Windows color matching to automatically adjust your printout’s colors to match the colors on your screen. Select this setting when printing scanned photographs or computer graphics. See Using Color Management for detailed information.
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Ambient light and the age, quality, and settings of your monitor can affect the quality of color matching.
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ICM Mode
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Select Driver ICM (Basic), Driver ICM (Advanced) or Host ICM.
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Image, Graphics, and Text checkboxes
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These checkboxes are available only when Driver ICM (Advanced) is selected as the ICM Mode.
Select the checkbox you want to set.
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Input Profile
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Select an input profile.
This setting is not available when Host ICM is selected as the ICM Mode setting.
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Intent
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Select a rendering intent or color mapping preference:
Saturation:
Select this option when printing presentation graphics to accurately reproduce vivid colors. Use of this setting is not recommended when printing photos.
Perceptual:
Select this option when you want an image’s color to appear natural, or when rendering a wide color range of an image. Use this setting when printing photos.
Relative Colorimetric:
Select this setting to render an image by maintaining a relative color range, or when most of the color range before conversion is found in the image after conversion. Use this setting when printing photos.
Absolute Colorimetric:
Select this setting to render an image by maintaining an absolute color range so that there is a 1-to-1 ratio of absolute lab coordinates. This setting is not recommended when printing photos or normal conversions.
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Printer Profile
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Select a printer profile.
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Printer Profile Description
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Shows the description of the selected printer profile.
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Show all profiles
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Shows all profiles in the Input Profile and the Printer Profile pull-down menu.
This setting is not available when Host ICM is selected as the ICM Mode setting.
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Follow these steps to save your Advanced settings.
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Click Save Settings. You see a window like this one.
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Type a unique name, up to 31 characters, for your settings in the Name text box.
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Click Save. Your setting will be added to the Custom Setting List.
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You can save up to 100 custom settings (including the preset custom settings). You can select your saved settings from the Custom Settings pull-down menu in the Mode box on the Main tab.
When you select your saved settings in the Custom Settings list, remember that selecting new settings, for example, Media Type and Color settings, may change your custom settings. This may produce unexpected results in your printouts. If this happens, reselect your saved settings and try printing again.
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The names of the included preset custom settings cannot be used for your new custom settings.
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Deleting Advanced settings
Follow the steps below to delete your Advanced setting.
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You cannot delete the included preset custom settings from the Custom Settings list.
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Click Save Settings. You see the Custom Settings window.
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Select the name of custom settings you want to delete.
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Click Delete. The setting will be deleted from the Custom Settings list.
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Exporting and importing Advanced settings
You can export the custom settings you saved, or import from a custom setting file created in another environment.
Exporting the Advanced settings
To export your custom settings, following these steps:
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Click Save Settings. You see the Custom Settings window.
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Select the custom settings you want to export. To select multiple settings at a time, hold down the Ctrl or Shift keys while you select the settings.
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Click Export.
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Select the location where you want to save the file to, and then enter a file name.
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Click Save.
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When the message “Processing complete.” appears, click OK.
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Importing Advanced settings
Follow the steps below to import custom settings.
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Click Save Settings. You see the Custom Settings window.
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Click Import.
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Browse to the folder that contains the file you want to import, and then select the file.
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Click Open.
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When the message “Processing complete.” appears, click OK.
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You can check the status of each ink cartridge.
The black ink cartridge (either Photo or Matte) that is not being used is dimmed. When you print, the black ink cartridge will change automatically depending on the Media Type setting you select.
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If your printer is not connected properly or Epson Status Monitor 3 is not installed, all of the Ink Levels will be grayed out.
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If you select the Print Preview checkbox on the Main tab, you can see how your printout will look before you print it. When you send a print job to the printer, the EPSON Print Preview window appears, allowing you to make changes before printing.
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The Print Preview window is not color accurate.
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The EPSON Print Preview toolbar contains several buttons you can use to perform the following functions.
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Zoom
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Click this button to reduce or enlarge the size of the previewed image.
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Fit-to-screen
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Click this button to scale the previewed image so that it fits the current window size. This is convenient when you want to see the entire image at one time.
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Maximum zoom
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Click this button to display the previewed image at the maximum possible zoom ratio.
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Printable area on/off
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Click this button to display a rectangle indicating the printable area on the previewed image. The printer cannot print anything outside of this rectangle. Click this button again to turn the printable area indicator off.
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Previous page
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Click this button to display the previous page. If there is no previous page, this button is not available.
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Next page
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Click this button to display the next page. If there is no next page, this button is not available.
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You can also modify the previewed print job in the following ways:
After you preview the print job, click Print to print it, or click Cancel to cancel the print job.
Using the Print Assistant function
You can access the following information by clicking the Print Assistant button:
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