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Printing with Macintosh

Modifying the Page Layout

Fitting your document to the paper size
Printing two or four pages on one sheet
Printing posters
Printing a watermark on your document
Making the Print Time setting
Saving spool data as a file

You can modify the page layout of your document using the settings found in the Layout dialog box. To open this dialog box, click Print on the File menu of your application, then click the Layout icon button in the Print dialog box. The Layout dialog box appears.

The Layout dialog box allows you to automatically match the document size to the paper size, place watermarks on documents, print two or four pages on a single sheet of paper, print poster-size images by enlarging one page to cover several sheets, or set the order in which you would like the pages of your document to print.

You can also specify the printing order for your print job. When printing multiple copies of your document, select Collate to print one complete document set at a time. Select Reverse Order to print your document in reverse order, starting with the last page.

Fitting your document to the paper size

You can proportionally enlarge or reduce the size of the image to make it fit a specified paper size. To do this, load paper of the correct size, select the Fit to Page check box, then specify the appropriate paper size in the Paper Size list.


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Printing two or four pages on one sheet

To print two or four pages of your document on one sheet of paper, select the Multi-Page check box in the Page Layout dialog box, then click N-up.

You can choose from the following settings.

2 Pages
4 Pages

Prints two or four pages of your document on a single piece of paper.

Page Order

Allows you to specify the order in which the pages will be printed on the sheet of paper.

Print page frames

Allows you to print a frame around each page on the sheet of paper.


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Printing posters

A single document page can be enlarged to cover 4, 9, or 16 printed sheets of paper. To print a poster-size image, select the Multi-Page check box in the Page Layout dialog box, then click Poster.

You can make the following settings.

1 page covers xx sheets

Specifies how many printed sheets of paper the enlarged document page is to cover. You can select 4, 9, or 16 pages.

Print Cutting Guidelines

Prints border lines on the images to guide you when trimming the pages.

Overlapping Panels

Slightly overlaps the images so that they can be aligned more precisely.

If you only want to print a few of the panels without printing the entire poster, click Panel Selection, then click the panels that you do not wish to print, and then click OK. Only the panels that you did not click will be printed.


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Printing a watermark on your document

To print a watermark in the background of your document, select the Watermark check box in the Page Layout dialog box.

Select the watermark that you wish to print from the Name list, then specify its position, size, color, and intensity. You can change the position and size of the watermark by dragging it with your mouse in the preview window at the left side of the dialog box.

You can also add your own text-based or image-based watermarks to the Name list. Follow the steps below.

Click the Add/Del button beside the Name list. The following dialog box appears.

To use an image file as a watermark, click the Add PICT button. Specify the desired image file, then click Open.

To create a text-based watermark, click the Add Text button. Type the text in the Text box, select a font and a text style, then click OK.

The image file name or the watermark text appears in the Mark Name list in the Watermark dialog box. To change the name of an image watermark, select it in the list, then type a new name. When a text watermark is selected in the Name list, you can edit the text and change the font and text style by clicking the Edit Text button.

Click OK to add your watermark to the Name list in the Page Layout dialog box.


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Making the Print Time setting

You can specify the priority of a printout or set the time that you want the printer to begin printing your document. Follow the steps below.

Click the Background Printing icon button in the Print dialog box. The Background Printing dialog box opens.

Select On as the Background Printing setting.

Select Urgent, Normal, Print at, or Hold as the Print Time setting.

If you select Print at, use the arrows beside the date and time boxes to specify the date and time that you want the document to be printed.

Note:
Make sure that the computer and printer are turned on at the date and time specified.

Click OK. The Background Printing dialog box closes.

In the Print dialog box, make sure that your print settings are as you want them, then click Print.

Note:
You can check or change the priority of print jobs using the EPSON Monitor3 utility. See Using EPSON Monitor3 for details.


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Saving spool data as a file

You can save the spool data as a file by using the Save File feature in the Print dialog box. This feature lets you print the file at a later time using the saved spool data, simply by double-clicking the saved file. Follow the steps below to save spool data for files and to print files using saved spool data.

Make your printer driver settings.

Click the Preview icon button in the Print dialog box repeatedly until the Print button changes into the Save File button.

Click the Save File button. The following dialog box appears.

Browse for the location where you want to save the file, then type a file name in the Save As text box and click Save. The print settings are now saved for this file.

When you want to print the document, double-click the file to open EPSON Monitor 3, make sure that the correct document is selected, then click the Resume button to send the data to the printer.


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