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Paper Sources

MP tray
Standard lower cassette
500-Sheet Paper Cassette Unit
Selecting a paper source

This section describes the combinations of paper sources and paper types that you can use.

MP tray

Paper Type	Paper Size	Capacity
Plain paper	A4, A5, B5, Letter (LT), Half-Letter (HLT), Executive (EXE), Government Letter (GLT), Custom-size paper: 92 x 148 mm minimum 216 x 297 mm maximum	Up to 150 sheets (Weight: 60 to 90 g/m²)
Envelopes	Monarch (MON), C10, DL, C6, C5, International B5	Up to 10 sheets
Labels	92 x 148 mm minimum 216 x 297 mm maximum	Up to 50 sheets (Weight: 91 to 163 g/m²)
Thick paper	92 x 148 mm minimum 216 x 297 mm maximum	Up to 50 sheets
EPSON Color Laser Paper	A4, Letter (LT)	Up to 150 sheets
EPSON Color Laser Transparencies	A4, Letter (LT)	Up to 50 sheets

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Standard lower cassette

Paper Type	Paper Size	Capacity
Plain paper	A4,Letter (LT)	Up to 500 sheets (Weight: 60 to 90 g/m²)
EPSON Color Laser Paper	A4, Letter (LT)	Up to 500 sheets

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500-Sheet Paper Cassette Unit

Paper Type	Paper Size	Capacity
Plain paper	A4, Letter (LT)	Up to 500 sheets (Weight: 60 to 90 g/m²)
EPSON Color Laser Paper	A4, Letter (LT)	Up to 500 sheets

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Selecting a paper source

The following are the two ways of selecting the printer's paper source:

Access the printer driver, click the Basic Settings tab, and select the paper source that you want to use from the Paper Source list. Then click OK.

Access the OneTouch mode or the SelecType mode on the printer's control panel and select the paper source that you want to use under the Paper Source setting. See OneTouch mode 1 or Printing Menu.

Auto selection

If you select Auto Selection in the printer driver or Auto in the SelecType mode, the paper source that contains paper matching the page size setting will be used.

When there is no paper in the selected paper source, the printer will search for a paper source containing the same-size paper in the following order:

MP tray
Lower Cassette 1 (standard lower cassette)
Lower Cassette 2 (500-Sheet Paper Cassette Unit)

You can change the priority order through the MP Mode setting in the SelecType Tray Menu. For details, see Tray Menu.

Note:

If you make paper size settings or paper source settings in your application, these settings may override the printer driver settings.

Manually loading paper

You can load paper manually from the MP tray, the standard lower cassette, or the optional 500-Sheet Paper Cassette Unit. Manually loading paper can be helpful when you want to check the print quality after each page is printed.

The manual loading procedure is almost the same as the procedure for automatic paper feeding, except that you feed paper one sheet at a time by pressing the On Line button.

Follow these steps to load paper manually:

Access the printer driver by one of the following ways:

Click the Print or Page Setup command on the File menu of your application software. You also need to click Setup, Options, Properties, or a combination of these buttons.

Click Start, select Settings, and then click Printers in Windows 98/95 or Windows NT 4.0. Next, right-click the icon of your EPSON printer and click Properties (in Windows 98/95), Printing Preference (in Windows 2000), or Document Defaults (in Windows NT 4.0).

Click the Basic Settings tab. Select the Manual Feed check box.

Select the correct paper size from the Paper Size list.

If the correct paper size is already loaded in the printer, skip this step.

Otherwise, load a sheet or a stack of the correct size paper into specified paper source. Adjust the paper guides to match the paper size you are loading.

Note:

Load the MP tray with the printable surface down, but load the standard and optional lower cassettes with the printable surface up.

Send a print job from your application. The LCD panel shows Manual Feed and the selected page size and paper source.

Press On Line to print. A sheet of paper is loaded and printed.

Press On Line again to print the next page of print data, if necessary. (Press the On Line button for every page that you want to print.)

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