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Printing with Macintosh / Checking Printer Status and Managing Print Jobs

Controlling Background Printing

Using EPSON Monitor3
Changing the priority of print jobs

After you send a print job to the printer, you can use the EPSON Monitor3 utility to check, cancel, or change the priority of print jobs that are queued for printing. This utility also shows the status of the job currently being printed.

Using EPSON Monitor3

To use EPSON Monitor3, follow these steps.

First, turn on Background Printing in the Chooser or in the Background Printing dialog box.

Send a print job to the printer.

Select Epson Monitor3 from the Application menu at the right end of the menu bar. This opens a dialog box similar to the following:

Note:

You can also open EPSON Monitor3 by double-clicking the EPSON Monitor3 icon in the Extensions folder.

• Use these buttons to hold, resume, and delete print jobs for documents selected in the dialog box. First, select the appropriate print job, then click the following buttons.

	Hold	Stops printing and holds the current print job in the print queue
	Resume	Resumes printing
	Delete	Stops printing and deletes print job from the print queue

• Use these buttons to start the printer utilities.

	Start/Stop Print Queue	When you click Stop Print Queue, printing stops until you click Start Print Queue.
	Print Head Cleaning	Starts the Print Head Cleaning utility
	Status Monitor	Starts the StatusMonitor, which shows the remaining ink levels

• To preview a file, double-click the spool file in the list (this function is disabled when you are printing the ESC/P command file).

• To change the number of copies you want to printout, double-click Copies.

• If you click the Show details arrow, an extension similar to the one below appears at the bottom of the EPSON Monitor3 dialog box. The extended dialog box displays detailed information on a selected document's printer driver settings.

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Changing the priority of print jobs

To change the priority of print jobs in a print queue, follow the steps below.

Note:

You can also change the priority of print jobs whose print times were previously set in the printer driver's Background Printing dialog box.

Click the Show details arrow at the bottom of the EPSON Monitor3 dialog box, then click a document name in the Document Name box. You will see an extended dialog box similar to the one below.

Select Urgent, Normal, Hold, or Print Time as the Priority option.

If you select Print Time, a dialog box appears where you can specify the date and time that you want to print the document.

Note:

Make sure that your printer and computer are turned on.

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