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Printer Software Settings / For Windows

Selecting Settings on the Main Menu

Selecting Basic settings
Selecting Advanced settings

You can select a Quality Option, Paper Options, Print Options, Orientation, and Advanced settings, and also check the ink levels on the Main menu. Refer to the appropriate section below.

Selecting Basic settings

Quality Option

You can select one of the following quality options.

Draft

For economical, high-speed printing.

Text

For medium-quality, standard text printing.

Text & Image

For high-quality, standard text and graphics printing.

Photo

For high-quality photographic printing.

Best Photo

For top-quality photographic printing.

User Defined
(your unique name)

If you create custom settings and then select one of them on the Advanced menu, it will appear as an icon.

Paper Options

Source

Select Sheet to print on normal paper.

Select CD/DVD to print on a CD/DVD.

Borderless

Select this check box when you want to print without margins. With this feature, you can print to all four edges of the paper.
See Borderless Printing

Type

Select the Type setting that matches the paper you loaded in the printer.

The Type setting determines what other settings are available, so you should always select this setting first.

To find out what media type you are using, find your media in the Media Type Settings list.

Media Type Settings

Size

Select the paper size that matches the paper you loaded in the printer. You can also add a custom paper size. To add your own paper size setting, see the following.

Envelope

Print Options

PhotoEnhance

This mode applies image correction settings specially designed for scanned or digitally captured photos.

Reverse Order

Lets you print your documents in reverse order, starting with the last page.

Print Preview

Lets you see a preview of your document before printing.

When you send a print job to the printer, the Print Preview window opens, allowing you to make changes before printing.

The Print Preview toolbar contains several icon buttons to perform the following functions.

Icon

Button name

Function

Drag 'n' Drop

Click this button to select and move watermarks.

Zoom

Click this button to enlarge or reduce the size of the previewed page.

Fit To Screen

Click this button to scale the previewed page so that it fits the size of the window. This is convenient when you want to see the entire page at one time.

Maximum Zoom

Click this button to display the previewed page at the maximum possible zoom ratio.

Printable Area On/Off

Click this button to display or hide the borderlines which indicate the printable area. The printer cannot print anything which is outside of this area.

Watermark

Click this button to open the Watermark dialog box, where you can add watermarks to the document and change any of the current watermark settings.

Reset Watermark settings to their original state

Click this button to return all watermark settings to what they were when the EPSON Print Preview window was first opened.

Previous Page

Click this button to display the page before the one currently being previewed.

Next Page

Click this button to display the next page in the document.

You can also manipulate the document being previewed in the following ways:

After you have previewed the document, click Print to print the document, or click Cancel to cancel printing.

Orientation

Select Portrait (tall) or Landscape (wide) to match the orientation of your printout.

Show Settings

When you click Show Settings, the Current Setting window appears. To hide the window, click Hide Settings on the Main menu or Close in the Current Setting window.

Reset Defaults

Click the Reset Defaults button to return the settings to their factory default values.

Advanced

Shows the Advanced menu.


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Selecting Advanced settings

The settings in the Advanced window 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.

Note:
  • Advanced settings are recommended for experienced users only. Incorrect settings can reduce print speed or quality.
  • The illustrations in this procedure are taken from Windows XP. They may differ slightly from Windows Me, 98, and 2000.
  • Some settings may not be available, depending on the Paper Source, Media Type, and Quality Option settings that you select.
  • The PhotoEnhance feature only affects images, not text or graphs. For example, if Monochrome is chosen from the Tone list (available when PhotoEnhance is selected), only the images in a document will be printed in monochrome. Any colored text or graphs in the same document will be printed in color.

To open the Advanced menu, click Advanced on the Main menu. If the following Note window appears, click Continue.

Paper & Quality Options

Source

Select Sheet to print on normal paper.

Select CD/DVD to print on a CD/DVD.

Borderless

Select this check box when you want to print without margins. With this feature, you can print to all four edges of the paper.
See Borderless Printing

Type

Select the Type setting that matches the paper you loaded in the printer.

To find out what media type you are using, find your media in the Media Type Settings list.

Media Type Settings

Note:
The availability of the Quality Options setting depends on the Media Type setting. Therefore, select the Media Type setting before you select a Quality Option.

Print Quality

Select the print quality from the list.

Size

Select the Size setting that matches the paper you loaded in the printer. You can also add a custom paper size. To add your own paper size setting, see the following.

Envelope

Orientation

Select Portrait (tall) or Landscape (wide) to match the orientation of your printout.

Print Options

Reverse order

Lets you print your documents in reverse order, starting with the last page.

High Speed

Activates bidirectional printing so your printer prints both left-to-right and right-to-left. High Speed mode speeds up printing, but decreases print quality.

Grayscale

Prints your printout in grayscale.

Edge Smoothing

Improves the print quality of low-resolution images by smoothing jagged edges and lines. This setting has no effect on high-resolution images or on text.

Print Preview

Shows a preview of your document before printing.

Color Management

Color Controls

For use with the color matching and image enhancement methods provided by the printer driver. When you select Color Controls, additional settings appear under Color Management, allowing you to select a Color Mode setting and adjust the color enhancement sliders.

Gamma

To control image contrast by modifying the midtones and mid-level grays.

Color Mode

EPSON Standard: Provides output that closely matches the original data.

Charts and Graphs: Intensifies the colors and lightens the midtones and highlights of an image. Use this setting for charts and graphs.

EPSON Vivid: Based on your data, enhances color balance for optimum print results. This setting is recommended for most print jobs.

Adobe RGB: Covers the full range of CMYK colors that this product can print. This setting is recommended for printing digital photos.

Slide Bars

The Color Enhancement slide bars adjust the options in a range of -25% to +25%. For details on each option, see the printer driver on-screen help.

PhotoEnhance

This mode provides a variety of image correction settings that you can apply to your photos before printing. PhotoEnhance does not affect your original data.

Note:
  • This mode is only available when printing 16-, 24-, or 32-bit color data.
  • Printing with PhotoEnhance selected may increase the time required for printing, depending on your computer system and the amount of data contained in your image.

Tone:

You can select from the following settings.

Auto Correct

Provides standard image correction for most photos.

Sepia

Applies a sepia tone to your photos.

Neutral Gray

Applies a black and white tone to your print data.

Cool Gray

Applies a cooler black and white tone to your print data than Neutral Gray.

Warm Gray

Applies a warmer black and white tone to your print data than Neutral Gray.

Selecting PhotoEnhance also makes the Digital Camera Correction check box available. Selecting this check box makes the Smooth Skin check box available. Use this when you are printing photos taken with a digital camera to give your printed images the smooth, natural appearance of photographs taken with a film camera.

ICM

This method automatically adjusts printout colors to match the colors on your screen. ICM stands for Image Color Matching.

Selecting ICM also makes the Off [No Color Adjustment] check box available. This setting is generally not recommended, because it does not allow the printer driver to enhance or adjust the color in any way. Only use this setting when you create a new color profile or if the other Mode settings do not produce satisfactory results.

Save Settings

To save your Advanced settings in the Custom Settings list, click Save Setting. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.

Type a unique name for your settings in the Name text box, then click Save. The name can contain a total of up to 16 letters and numbers. You can also use up to eight, double-byte characters; however, they may not be displayed correctly on the screen depending on your operating system settings. Your custom setting will be added to the Custom Settings list on the Advanced menu. You can save up to 10 custom settings.

After saving it, the latest custom setting will be selected on the Advanced menu. To change to another custom setting, simply select it from the Custom Settings list on the Advanced menu.

If you change a setting while one of your custom settings is selected in the Custom Settings list, the selection in the list returns to Custom Settings. The custom setting that was previously selected is not affected by the change and remains in the list. To return to your custom setting, simply reselect it from the Custom Settings list on the Advanced menu.

To delete a setting from the Custom Settings list, select it in the Custom Settings dialog box, then click Delete. If the deleted custom setting was active when deleted or if it was the only custom setting, the Custom Settings list selection returns to Custom Settings. To activate a remaining custom setting, simply select it from the Custom Settings list on the Advanced menu.

Show this screen first

Shows the Advanced menu first when accessing the Main menu in the printer software.

Reset Defaults

Click the Reset Defaults button to return the settings to their factory default values.

Basic

Shows the Basic menu.


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