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Making Settings on the Main Menu
 Making the Media Type setting
Making the Color setting
Making the Mode setting
Making Advanced setting
Checking the Ink Levels
Previewing your printout
Using the Print Assistant function
From this menu, you can make the Media Type, Color, and Mode settings, and also check the ink cartridge status. You can also access the User’s Guide, the paper information, and the Technical Support Web Site by clicking the Print Assistant button.
Making the Media Type setting
The Media Type setting determines what other settings are available; therefore, always make this setting first.
From Media Type, select a media that matches the paper loaded in the printer. Locate your paper in the list, and then select a corresponding Media Type setting. For some types of paper, several Media Type settings are available for selection.
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Media Type Setting
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Epson Special Media Name/Description
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Premium Luster Photo Paper
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Premium Luster Photo Paper
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Premium Glossy Photo Paper
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Premium Glossy Photo Paper
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Premium Semigloss Photo Paper
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Premium Semigloss Photo Paper
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Proofing Paper Semimatte
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EPSON Proofing Paper Semimatte (Commercial)
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Plain Paper - Photo Black
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Enhanced Matte Paper
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Enhanced Matte Paper
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Archival Matte Paper
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Archival Matte Paper
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Velvet Fine Art Paper
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Velvet Fine Art Paper
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UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper
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UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper
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Watercolor Paper - Radiant White
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Watercolor Paper - Radiant White
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Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper
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Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper
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Singleweight Matte Paper
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Singleweight Matte Paper
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Plain Paper - Matte Black
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Singleweight Matte Paper (line drawing)
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Singleweight Matte Paper
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Make the Color setting. Select Color to print color or monochrome photos, or Black to print a draft or black text only. If you want to print advanced monochrome photos, select Advanced B&W Photo.
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When printing on any media, we recommend Color even if the data to print is black.
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You can select either the Automatic or Custom mode. These modes are provided to give you two levels of control over the printer driver.
Automatic mode is the quickest and easiest way to start printing. When Automatic is selected, the printer driver takes care of all detailed settings based on the current Media Type and Color settings.
Depending on the media you choose in the Media Type setting while Color or Black is selected as the Color setting and Automatic as the Mode setting, a Quality or Speed slider appears in the Mode box. Select Quality when print quality is more important than print speed. Select Speed when print speed is more important than print quality.
When Color is selected as the Color setting and Automatic as the Mode setting, the Color Control pull-down menu appears in the Mode box.
You can select from the following settings.
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EPSON Vivid
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Select this setting to produce vivid blue and green tones in printouts.
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Because this setting reproduces blue and green tones that cannot be displayed by your monitor, your printouts may differ from the screen images when this function is selected.
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Charts and Graphs
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Intensifies the colors and lightens the midtones and highlights of an image. Use this setting for presentation graphics, such as charts and graphs.
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EPSON Standard (sRGB)
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Increases the contrast in images. Use this setting for color photographs.
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Adobe RGB
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Matches image color to Adobe RGB.
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When you select Advanced B&W Photo as the Color setting while Automatic is selected, the Color Toning pull-down menu appears in the Mode box.
You can select from the following settings.
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Neutral
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This setting provides standard image correction for most photos. Try this first.
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Cool
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This setting gives a cool tone to your photos.
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Warm
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This setting gives a warm tone to your photos.
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Sepia
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This setting applies a sepia tone to your photos.
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The Custom mode lets you make a wide range of changes with a single click of the mouse. In the Custom Settings pull-down menu, you will find ready-made settings provided by Epson.
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These ready-made settings may not appear, depending on the Media Type and Color settings.
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Advanced Photo 2880
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Good for printing scanned photos and digitally captured images in high quality. Helps prevent misprinting of ink dots that may occur due to movement of the print head and paper.
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PhotoEnhance
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This mode lets you select image-correction settings specially designed for scanned or digitally captured photos.
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The Advanced setting gives 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 pull-down menu.
To make Advanced settings, follow the steps below.
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Select Custom from the Main menu, and then click Advanced. The Advanced dialog box appears.
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Make the Color setting. Select Color to print color or monochrome photos, or Black to print a draft or black text only. If you want to print advanced monochrome photos, select Advanced B&W Photo.
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When printing on any media, we recommend Color even if the data to print is black.
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Select a Print Quality setting.
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If you are using non-Epson special media, click the Paper Config button, and then make settings as needed. For details, see Paper Configuration.
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Some settings are enabled or disabled depending on the Media Type, Color, and Print Quality settings you have made.
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Make other settings as needed. For details, see the online help.
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Click OK to apply your settings and then return to the Main menu. If you want to return to the previous screen without applying your settings, click Cancel.
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The following settings in the Paper Configuration dialog box let you make the detailed paper settings.
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Mode
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Description
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Color Density
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Adjusts the strength of Color Density. Use a value in the range of -50% to +50%. Drag the slider to the right (+) to deepen the color of your printout or left (-) to lighten its color. You can also type a number (-50 to +50) in the box next to the slider.
Use this function when you print on paper other than Epson special media.
Set the slider to the 0 position when you print on Epson special media.
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Deepening of the color of printout may not be possible, depending on the printing mode.
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Drying Time per Print Head Pass
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Adds a waiting time when the print head reaches the end of every pass.
Set this value using the slider or text box. To improve the print quality by using slow ink absorption on the media, set a higher value.
The drying time per print head pass can be set from 0 to 5 seconds, in 0.1 second increments.
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If you use this feature, the printing time will be longer.
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Paper Feed Adjustment
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Controls the paper feeding value, in 0.01% increments. If the paper feeding value is too large, white horizontal micro banding may appear. If the paper feeding value is too small, dark horizontal micro banding may appear.
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Paper Thickness
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This value automatically appears according to the Media Type setting. If you use non-Epson media, modify this value for your media. Refer to the paper specifications, or print "Thickness Pattern" to find out the paper thickness.
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Platen Gap
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Platen Gap is the height from the media loaded in the printer to the print head. By adjusting this parameter, you may produce better print quality. This is set automatically according to the Paper Thickness setting specified.
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Setting Platen Gap to Narrow may produce better print quality, but make sure the media does not wrinkle or touch the print head; otherwise, printed data or the print head surface may be damaged. Use Wider or Wide in such case.
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Default button
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Click this button to return the settings to their factory default values.
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This setting provides the color matching and image-enhancement methods. When you select this setting, additional settings appear under the Printer Color Management box where you can select a Mode setting and adjust the color enhancement sliders. For details on the additional settings, see the online help.
When Advanced B&W Photo is selected as the Color setting, the following screen appears. You can then adjust the advanced monochrome settings. For details on the additional settings, see the online help.
This setting provides a variety of image-correction settings that you can apply to your photo images before printing. PhotoEnhance does not affect your original data. When you select this setting, you will need to make the Digital Camera Correction settings.
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Digital Camera Correction
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If you are printing photos taken with a digital camera, select this check box to give your printed photos a smooth and natural appearance like that of photos taken with a film camera.
Select the Smooth Skin check box to adjust the image to make its skin color smooth.
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Off (No Color Adjustment)
This setting turns off the printer driver color management, which is useful when you use the color management function of the application to apply an ICC profile. See Color Management for detailed information on color management.
This setting uses the Windows color matching method to automatically adjust printout colors to match colors on your screen. Select this setting when printing scanned photographs or computer graphics. See Color Management for detailed information on color management.
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Be aware that the ambient light and the age, quality, and settings of the monitor can affect the quality of your color matching.
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ICM Mode
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Select the ICM mode from Host ICM, Driver ICM (Basic), or Driver ICM (Advanced).
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Image, Graphics, and Text check boxes
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These check boxes are available only when Driver ICM (Advanced) is selected as the ICM Mode.
Select the check box you want to set.
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Input Profile
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Select an input profile.
This setting is not available when Host ICM is selected as the ICM Mode setting.
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Intent
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Select the rendering intent or color mapping preference.
Saturation:
This setting is the best option for presentation graphics to accurately reproduce vivid colors. Use of this setting is not recommended when printing photo data.
Perceptual:
This setting renders an image’s color to appear naturally, and is often used to render the wide color range of the original image. Use of this setting is recommended when printing photo data.
Relative Colorimetric:
This setting renders an image by maintaining a relative color range, and is often used when most of the color range before conversion is found in the image after conversion. Use of this setting is recommended when printing photo data.
Absolute Colorimetric:
This setting renders an image by maintaining an absolute color range so that there is a 1-to-1 ratio of absolute lab coordinates. This setting is not recommended when printing photo data and normal conversions.
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Printer Profile
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Select a printer profile.
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Printer Profile Description
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Shows the description of the selected printer profile.
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Show all profiles
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Shows all profiles in the Input Profile and the Printer Profile pull-down menu.
This setting is not available when Host ICM is selected as the ICM Mode setting.
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Saving the Advanced settings
To save your Advanced settings, follow the steps below.
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Click Save Settings. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.
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Type a unique name, up to 31 characters, for your settings in the Name text box.
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Click Save. Your setting will be added to the Custom Setting List.
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You can save up to 100 custom settings (including the imported settings). You can select your saved settings from the Custom Settings pull-down menu in the Mode box on the Main menu.
When you select your saved settings in the Custom Settings list, be aware that making new settings, for example Media Type and Color settings, may change your custom settings. This may cause unexpected results in your printouts. If this happens, reselect your saved settings and try printing again.
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The names of the ready-made settings provided by Epson cannot be applied to your new settings.
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Deleting the Advanced settings
To delete your Advanced setting, follow the steps below.
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You cannot delete ready-made settings from the Custom Settings list.
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Click Save Settings. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.
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Select the name of settings you want to delete.
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Click Delete. The setting will be deleted from the Custom Settings list.
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Exporting and importing the Advanced settings
You can export the custom settings you saved, or import from a custom setting file created in another environment.
Exporting the Advanced settings
To export your custom settings, use the following steps.
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Click Save Settings. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.
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Select the custom settings you want to export.
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Click Export.
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Select the location where you want to save the file, and then enter the file name.
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Click Save.
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When the message “Processing complete.” appears, click OK.
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Importing the Advanced settings
To import custom settings, use the following steps.
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Click Save Settings. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.
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Click Import.
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Select the folder where the file for importing settings is located, and then select the file.
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Click Open.
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When the message “Processing complete.” appears, click OK.
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You can check the status of each ink cartridge.
The black ink (either Photo or Matte) which is not used is dimmed. When you print, the black ink will change automatically depending on the Media Type setting.
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If your printer is not connected properly or EPSON Status Monitor 3 is not installed, the Ink Level is dimmed.
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If you select the Print Preview check box, you can see how your printout will look before printing. When you send a print job to the printer, the EPSON Print Preview window appears, allowing you to make changes before printing.
The EPSON Preview toolbar contains several buttons that you can use to perform the following functions.
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Zoom
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Click this button to enlarge or reduce the size of the previewed image.
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Fit-to-screen
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Click this button to scale the previewed image so that it fits the current window size. This is convenient when you want to see the entire image at one time.
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Maximum zoom
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Click this button to display the previewed image at the maximum possible zoom ratio.
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Printable area on/off
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Click this button to display a rectangle indicating the printable area on the previewed image. The printer cannot print anything which is outside of this rectangle. Click this button again to turn this feature off.
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Previous page
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Click this button to display the previous page. If there is no previous page, this button is not available.
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Next page
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Click this button to display the next page. If there is no next page, this button is not available.
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You can also manipulate the previewed data in the following ways.
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Magnify the previewed document: Click View and then select Magnify to open the Magnify window, which magnifies the area of the previewed document outlined by the red box. By dragging the red box, you can change the part of the document to magnify.
After you previewing the data, click Print to print the data, or click Cancel to cancel printing.
Using the Print Assistant function
You can access the following information by clicking the Print Assistant button:
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