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Printing with Windows

Basic Settings

Making the printer driver settings
Canceling printing

Making the printer driver settings

This section describes the basic printer driver settings to print your data.

To make the basic printer driver settings, follow these steps.

Click Print on the File menu of your application. The Print dialog box appears.

Make sure your printer is selected, and click Properties, or Options. You may need to click a combination of these buttons. The driver settings window appears.

Click Main tab. The Main menu appears.

Select the media that matches the paper loaded in the printer from the Media Type. See Media Type setting list.

Note:

Check the media type and its paper path. See Paper path list.

The Media Type setting determines what other settings are available, so you should always make this setting first.

Some media types are not available for the Paper Source you have selected.

Make the Ink setting. Select Color/B&W Photo to print color or monotone photos, or Black to print a draft or black text only.

Note:

When printing on any media other than tracing paper, we recommend Color/B&W Photo even if the data to be printed is black.

Make the Mode setting. Make sure Automatic is selected.

Adjust Speed and Quality in the Mode box if a slider appears. Drag the slider left or right depending on which is more important.

Note:

According to the Media Type you choose, a slider may not appear in the Mode box.

Click the Paper tab. The Paper menu appears.

Select the type of paper loaded in the printer from the Paper Source.

Select Borderless to print your data with no margin. See Making the Borderless setting.

Select the paper size loaded in the printer under Paper Size.

Note:

Most Windows applications feature paper size settings that override similar settings in the printer driver.

When Paper Tray or Manual Feed is selected as the Paper Source, make the Printable Area settings as needed. See Making the Printable Area setting.

When Roll Paper or Roll Paper (Banner) is selected as the Paper Source, make the Roll Paper Option settings as needed. See Making the Roll Paper Option settings.

Make settings for Orientation, Copies, and Printable Area as necessary.

Click the Layout tab. The Layout menu appears.

Select Reduce/Enlarge and adjust the size of printed data, if necessary. See Making the Reduce/Enlarge setting.

Note:

This function is not available when Roll Paper (Banner) is selected from the Paper Source.

Select Double-Sided Printing and make settings as needed. See Making Double-sided Printing setting for details.

Select Multi-Page and make settings as needed. See Making Multi-Page settings for details.

Click OK. The screen returns to the Print Setup dialog box (or a similar dialog box) of your application.

Click Print to start printing.

While printing, the EPSON Progress Meter appears, showing the printing progress and the status of your printer.

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Canceling printing

To cancel the printing in progress, click Stop on the EPSON Progress Meter.

You can also pause or restart printing. To pause printing, click Pause. To resume printing, click this button again.

Caution:

When you stop printing in progress, you may need to start printing again from the beginning for best result. Otherwise misalignment or banding may appear on the printed image.

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