Making Settings on the Paper Menu

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Making Settings on the Paper Menu

Making the Paper Source setting
Making the Borderless setting
Making the Paper Size setting
Making the Copies setting
Making the Orientation settings

You can make Paper Source, Borderless, Paper Size, Copies, or Orientation settings on this menu.

Note:

Most Windows applications feature paper size and page layout settings that override similar settings in the printer driver. However, if your application does not have these features, verify the settings on the printer driver’s Paper menu.

Making the Paper Source setting

You can select Sheet, Manual-Rear, or Manual-Front from the Paper Source setting. Select one that matches the paper loaded in the printer.

Making the Borderless setting

You can print your data without margins on paper.

For this printing mode, Epson recommends the following media conditions.

Accommodate media size:

Letter (8.5 × 11 in)

US B (11 × 17 in)

US C (17 × 22 in)

A4 (210 × 297 mm)

A3 (297 × 420 mm)

Super A3 (329 × 483 mm)

A2 (420 × 594 mm)

89 × 127 mm (3.5 × 5 in)

102 × 152 mm (4 × 6 in)

127 × 178 mm (5 × 7 in)

16:9 wide size (102 × 181 mm)

203 × 254 mm (8 × 10 in)

254 × 305 mm (10 × 12 in)

279 × 356 mm (11 × 14 in)

406 × 508 mm (16 × 20 in)

Note:

If your application has margin settings, make sure they are set to zero before printing.

The ink may contaminate the platen of the printer. In this case, wipe the ink away using a cloth.

Printing with this feature takes longer time than normal printing.

Smear may result in the top and bottom areas depending on the media.

If you select Manual-Front for the Paper Source, the Borderless check box does not appear.

Borderless printing is not supported when the PAPER SIZE CHECK setting is off. Make sure that ON is selected for PAPER SIZE CHECK on the printer’ s control panel.

To print your data with this feature, follow the steps below.

Select Borderless.

Click the Expansion button. The Expansion dialog box appears.

Choose Auto Expand or Retain Size, and the amount of enlargement.

Auto Expand

Select this setting if you want to enlarge the size of print data automatically and print without margins. You can choose the amount of enlargement by moving the slider.

Note:
Enlarged areas that exceed the paper size will not be printed on the paper.

Retain Size

Select this setting if you do not want to change the ratio of your print data.

When you select this setting, you need to enlarge your image data to exceed the paper width and height, to avoid unprinted areas appearing along the all four edges. Enlarging 5 mm in all four directions is recommended, using the application that created the data.

Amount of Enlargement

When you select Auto Expand, the slider becomes available. Using the slider, you can control the amount of the image that extends beyond the edges of the paper during borderless printing.

For most print jobs, Max is recommended in order to eliminate margins on all sides of the paper.

Moving the slider towards Min decreases the amount of the image enlargement; however, as this amount decreases, margins may appear on one or more sides of the paper.

Click OK.

Start printing your data from your application.

Making the Paper Size setting

You can select a paper size that you want to use. Select the proper paper size from the Paper Size list.

You can also add a custom paper size, using the steps below.

Select User Defined from the Paper Size list. The User Defined Paper Size dialog box appears.

Enter Paper Size Name, Paper Width and Paper Height, and then select Unit.

Click OK to save the custom paper size.

Making the Copies setting

You can specify the number of copies to print. Enter a number in the Copies box, or click the arrow next to the box. You can enter any number from 1 to 9999. When printing multiple copies of your document, select Collate to print one complete document set at a time. Select Reverse Order to print your documents in reverse order, starting with the last page.

Making the Orientation settings

You can specify the direction of printing on the page.

Portrait	Print direction is short edge first, like most magazines.
Landscape	Print direction is long edge first, like many spreadsheets.
Rotated by 180˚	Prints your document upside down.