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Printing / Using the Printer Software with Windows

Making Changes to Printer Settings

Making the print quality setting
Duplex printing
Resizing printouts
Modifying the print layout
Using a watermark
Making Extended Settings
Making Optional Settings
Setting information about consumables

Making the print quality setting

You can change the print quality of printouts through settings in the printer driver. With the printer driver, you can make the print settings by choosing from a list of predefined settings, or customizing the settings.

Choosing the print quality by using the Automatic setting

You can change the print quality of printouts to favor speed or detail. There are five quality modes for the color printing mode and three for the monochrome printing mode.

When Automatic is selected in the Basic Settings menu, the printer driver takes care of all detailed settings according to the color setting you select. Print quality and color are the only settings you have to make. You can change other settings such as paper size or orientation in most applications.

Note:
The printer driver's online help provides details on printer driver settings.

Click the Basic Settings tab.

Click Automatic. Then choose desired printing quality.

Click OK to apply the settings.

The printer driver provides the following quality modes.

Color

Draft, Text, Text&Image, Web, Photo

Black and white

Draft, Text&Image, Photo

Note:
If printing is unsuccessful or a memory-related error message appears, selecting a different print quality may allow printing to proceed.

Using the predefined settings

The predefined settings are provided to help you optimize print settings for a particular kind of printout, such as presentation documents or images taken by a video or digital camera.

Follow the steps below to use the predefined settings.

Click the Basic Settings tab.

Select Advanced. You will find the predefined settings in the list below of Automatic.

Note:
This screen may vary depending on your operating system version.

Select the most appropriate setting from the list according to the type of document or image you want to print.

When you choose a predefined setting, other settings such as Printing Mode, Resolution, Screen, and Color Management are set automatically. Changes are shown in the current settings list on the Setting Information dialog box that appears by pressing the Setting Info button on the Optional Settings menu.

This printer driver provides the following predefined settings:

Draft

Suitable for printing inexpensive drafts.

Text

Suitable for printing documents that include mainly text.

Text&Image

Suitable for printing documents that include text and images.

Web

Suitable for printing web screens that include many icons, symbols, and colored text.

Note:
Even if you specify Web for quality mode, it may not be effective or may be insufficiently effective for the following data.
  • Images with fewer than 256 colors
  • Non-photo image data, such as illustrations or graphs
  • Text data

Photo

Suitable for printing photos.

Text/Graph

Suitable for printing documents that include text and graphs, such as presentation documents.

Graphic/CAD

Suitable for printing graphics and charts.

PhotoEnhance

Suitable for printing video captures, images taken with a digital camera, or scanned images. EPSON PhotoEnhance automatically adjusts the contrast, saturation, and brightness of the original image data to produce sharper, more vivid color printouts. This setting does not affect your original image data.

ICM

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

sRGB

When using equipment which supports sRGB, the product performs Image Color Matching with these pieces of equipment before printing. To confirm that your equipment supports sRGB, contact your equipment dealer.

Advanced Text/Graph

Suitable for printing high-quality presentation documents that include text and graphs.

Advanced Graphic/CAD

Suitable for printing high-quality graphs, charts, and photos.

Advanced Photo

Suitable for printing high-quality scanned photos and digitally-captured images.

Customizing print settings

If you need to change detailed settings, make the settings manually.

Follow the steps below to customize your print settings.

Click the Basic Settings tab.

Click Advanced, then click More Settings.

Choose Color or Black as the Color setting, then choose desired printing resolution from 300 dpi or 600 dpi with the Resolution slider bar.

Note:
  • This screen may vary depending on your operating system version.
  • When making the other settings, see online help for details on each setting.
  • Even if you select the Web Smoothing check box, it may not be effective or may be insufficiently effective for the following data.
    - Images with fewer than 256 colors
    - Non-photo image data, such as illustrations or graphs
    - Text data
  • The Web Smoothing check box is not available for black-and-white printing or when PhotoEnhance is selected in the Color Management setting.

Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Basic Settings menu.

Saving your settings

To save your custom settings, click Advanced, then click Save Settings on the Basic Settings menu. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.

Type a name for your custom settings in the Name box, then click Save. Your settings will appear in the list located below Automatic in the Basic Settings menu.

Note:
  • You cannot use a predefined setting name for your custom settings.
  • To delete a custom setting, click Advanced, click Save Settings in the Basic Settings menu, select the setting in the Custom Settings dialog box, then click Delete.
  • You cannot delete predefined settings.

If you change any setting in the More Settings dialog box when one of your custom settings is selected in the Advanced Settings list on the Basic Settings menu, the setting selected in the list changes to Custom Settings. The custom setting that was previously selected is not affected by this change. To return to your custom setting, simply reselect it from the current settings list.

Checking information about consumables

When EPSON Status Monitor 3 is installed, information about consumables, such as the remaining toner and the photoconductor's life is displayed on the Basic Settings menu. You can also order consumables online by clicking the Order Online button. For details, see Order Online.

Note:
  • Information about consumables, that is displayed on the Basic Settings menu, is based on a specified time interval in which the information is updated. For changing the time interval or getting the current consumables information, see Setting information about consumables.
  • If information about consumables displayed on the screen differs from the actual item, press the Get Information New button in the Consumables Info Settings dialog box. For details, see Setting information about consumables.
  • If you cannot view the information about consumables, check if the Display Consumables information button in the Consumables Info Settings dialog box is selected.


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Duplex printing

Duplex printing prints on both sides of the paper. You can do duplex printing manually. When printing for binding, the binding edge can be specified as required to produce the desired page order.

Doing duplex printing manually

Click the Basic Settings tab.

Make sure that the Duplex (Manual) check box is off.

Note:
The manual feed function is not available when using the manual duplex function.

Select the Duplex (manual) check box, then select Left, Top, or Right as the binding position.

Click Duplex Settings to open the Duplex Settings dialog box.

Specify the Binding Margin for the front and back sides of the paper, then select whether the front or back side of the paper is to be printed as the Start Page.

When printing for binding as a booklet, select the Binding Method check box and make appropriate settings. For details about each setting, see online help

Click OK.

Execute the print job.

After printing on one side, reload the paper into the MP tray with the printed surface face-down as shown below. Then, press the  B&W Start or  Color Start button.

Note:
  • Manual duplex printing may not be completed normally when printing a document for which the paper size, orientation, or paper source setting is set to change in the document.
  • When doing duplex printing manually with collate set on the printer driver, the printing may not be completed normally depending on the application you use.
  • When loading the paper, straighten it well. If curled paper is loaded, it may not be fed correctly.


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Resizing printouts

You can have your document enlarged or reduced during printing.

To automatically resize pages to fit the output paper

Click the Advanced Layout tab.

Select the Zoom Options check box, then select the desired paper size from the Output Paper drop-down list. The page will be printed to fit on the paper you have selected.

Select Upper Left (to print the reduced page image in the upper left corner of the paper) or Center (to print the reduced page image in the center of the paper) for Location setting.

Click OK to apply the settings.

Resizing pages by a specified percentage

Click the Advanced Layout tab.

Select the Zoom Options check box.

Select the Zoom To check box, then specify the magnification percentage in the box.

Note:
The percentage can be set between 50% and 200% in 1% increments.

Click OK to apply the settings.

If necessary, select the paper size to be printed from the Output Paper drop-down list.


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Modifying the print layout

Your product can print either two or four pages onto a single page and specifies the printing order, automatically resizing each page to fit the specified paper size. You can also choose to print documents surrounded by a frame.

Click the Advanced Layout tab.

Select the Print Layout check box, and the number of pages you want to print on one sheet of paper. Then click More Settings. The Print Layout Settings dialog box appears.

Select the Page Order in which the pages are printed on each sheet.

Select the Print the Frame check box when you want to print the pages surrounded by a frame.

Note:
The Page Order choices depend on the number of pages selected above, and the paper orientation (Portrait or Landscape) selected on the Basic Settings menu.

Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Layout menu.


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Using a watermark

Follow the steps below to print a watermark on your document. In the Advanced Layout tab or Watermark dialog box, you can select from a list of predefined watermarks, or you can make an original watermark with text or a bitmap. The Watermark dialog box also allows you to make a variety of detailed watermark settings. For example, you can select the size, intensity, and position of your watermark.

Click the Advanced Layout tab.

Select a watermark that you want to use from the Watermark drop-down list. If you want to make detailed settings, click Watermark Settings. The Watermark dialog box appears.

Select the color from the Color drop-down list, then adjust the image intensity of the watermark with the Intensity slider bar.

Select Front (to print the watermark in the foreground of the document) or Back (to print the watermark in the background of the document) for the Position setting.

Select the location on the page where you want to print the watermark from the Location drop-down list.

Adjust the X (horizontal) or Y (vertical) Offset position.

Adjust the size of the watermark with the Size slider bar.

Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Special menu.

Making a new watermark

You can make a new watermark as follows.

Click the Advanced Layout tab.

Click New/Delete. The User Defined Watermarks dialog box appears.

Note:
The User Defined Watermarks dialog box also appears by clicking New/Delete in the Watermark dialog box.

Select Text or BMP and type a name for the new watermark in the Name box.

Note:
This screen appears when you select Text.

If you select Text, type the watermark text in the Text box. If you select BMP, click Browse, select the BMP file you want to use, then click OK.

Click Save. Your watermark will appear in the List box.

Click OK to apply the new watermark settings.

Note:
You can register up to 10 watermarks.


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Making Extended Settings

You can make various settings in the Extended Settings dialog box. To open the dialog box, click Extended Settings on the Optional Settings menu.

Offset:

Makes fine adjustments to the printing position on the front and the back of data on a page in 1 mm increments.

Uses the settings specified on the printer button:

Select this button to use the settings specified on the control panel.

Uses the settings specified on the driver button:

Select this button to use the settings specified in the printer driver.

Ignore the selected paper size check box:

When you select this check box, the product prints on the loaded paper, regardless of size.

Auto Continue check box:

Select this check box to clear errors automatically and continue printing after a given time (about 5 seconds) when Paper Set, Print Overrun, or Memory Overflow occurs.

Data Compression Level:

Select the compression level for image data from the drop-down list. For example, selecting Low (Higher Quality) provides better print quality, but slows the printing speed.

Automatically change to monochrome mode check box:

Select this check box to have the printer driver analyze the printing data, and automatically switch to monochrome mode if the printing data is black and white.

Skip Blank Page check box:

When you select this check box, the product skips blank pages.

Clear this check box when printing on both sides of the paper using the duplex printing function.

High Speed Graphics Output check box:

Select this check box to optimize the printing speed of graphics composed of line drawings such as overlaid circles and squares.

Clear this check box if graphics do not print correctly.

Uses the collate settings specified in the application check box:

Select this check box to enable the collate settings that are specified on the application.

Uses the spooling method provided by the operating system check box:

Select this check box to enable the Spool function for Windows XP, 2000, or Server 2003.

Avoid Page Error check box:

Select this check box to avoid Print Overrun errors when printing data which requires a lot of memory to print, such as documents with a large number of complex fonts or graphics. Doing so may slow down printing somewhat.

Select this check box when printing on both sides of the paper using the duplex printing function.

Extended Printable Area check box:

Select this check box to extend printable area.

Default button:

Click this button to return the driver settings to the initial settings.

Help button:

Click this button to open online help.

Cancel button:

Click this button to exit the dialog box or printer driver without saving the settings.

OK button:

Click this button to save the settings and to exit the dialog box or printer driver.


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Making Optional Settings

You can update the installed option information manually if you have installed options to your product.

From Printer Properties, click the Optional Settings tab, then select the Update the Printer Option Info Manually button.

Click Settings. The Optional Settings dialog box appears.

Make settings for each installed option, then click OK.


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Setting information about consumables

You can specify whether to get information about consumables and display it when the Basic Settings menu is opened. You can also specify to get the current consumables information in the Consumables Info Settings dialog box.

a.

Display Consumables information button:

Displays information about consumables according to the specified interval, and displays when the Basic Settings menu is opened. When this button is selected, the time interval at which to update the information can also be specified.

b.

Do not display consumables information button:

Does not display information about consumables.

c.

Get Information Now button:

Gets the current information about consumables. The consumables information is displayed on the Basic Settings menu.


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