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Printing with Windows

Making Settings on the Main Menu

Making the Media Type setting
Making the Ink setting
Making the Mode setting
Making Advanced setting
Checking the Ink Levels
Previewing your printout

You can make Media Type, Ink, and Mode settings, and check the remaining ink of the installed ink cartridges on this menu.

Making the Media Type setting

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

Select the media that matches the paper loaded in the printer from the Media Type. Find your paper in the list, and select a corresponding Media Type setting. For some kinds of paper, you have several Media Type settings to choose from.

Note:

The availability of special media varies by country.

When using paper other than Epson special media, see Notes for Epson Special Media and Other Media.

For the latest information on media available in your area, contact Epson customer support web site. See Contacting Customer Support.

Media Type setting list

Media Type Setting	Epson Special Media Name/Description
Singleweight Matte Paper	EPSON Singleweight Matte Paper
Enhanced Matte Paper	EPSON Enhanced Matte Paper EPSON Archival Matte Paper
Premium Glossy Photo Paper	EPOSN Premium Glossy Photo Paper
Premium Semigloss Photo Paper	EPSON Premium Semigloss Photo Paper
Premium Luster Photo Paper	EPSON Premium Luster Photo Paper
Premium Luster Photo Paper (250) (Roll)	EPSON Premium Luster Photo Paper (250)
Premium Glossy Photo Paper (250)	EPSON Premium Glossy Photo Paper (250)
Premium Semigloss Photo Paper (250)	EPSON Semigloss Photo Paper (250)
Premium Semimatte Photo Paper (250)	EPSON Semimatte Photo Paper (250)
Smooth Fine Art Paper	EPSON Smooth Fine Art Paper
Textured Fine Art Paper	EPSON Textured Fine Art Paper
Proofing Paper Semimatte	EPSON Proofing Paper Semimatte
Plain Paper	-
Plain Paper (Line drawing)	-
Tracing Paper	-

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Making the Ink setting

You can select ink mode. 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.

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Making the Mode setting

You can select Automatic, PhotoEnhance, or Custom mode. These modes are arranged to give you three levels of control over the printer driver.

Automatic mode

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 Ink settings.

Depending on the media you choose in the Media Type while Automatic is selected, a slider appears in the Mode box that lets you choose Quality or Speed. Select Quality when print quality is more important than print speed. Select Speed when print speed is more important than print quality.

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, you should also verify the settings on the printer driver's Paper menu.

PhotoEnhance

PhotoEnhance mode lets you choose from a variety of image-correction settings specially designed for photos. PhotoEnhance does not affect your original data.

Note:

This mode is only available when printing 8-, 16-, 24, or 32-bit color data.

Printing with PhotoEnhance selected may increase the time required for printing, depending on your computer system and the amount of data.

You can select from the following settings.

Standard	This setting provides standard image correction for most photos. Try this first.
People	This setting is best for photos of people.
Nature	This setting is best for outdoor scenery such as mountains, skies, and oceans.
Soft Focus	This setting makes your photos look as if they were taken with a soft-focus lens.
Sepia	This setting applies a sepia tone to your photos.

Selecting PhotoEnhance also enables the Digital Camera Correction check box. Select this check box when you are printing photos taken with a digital camera to give your printed images the smooth, natural appearance of photographs taken with a film camera.

Custom mode

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. They are designed to match particular kinds of printouts, such as graphs and charts for a presentation.

The Custom Settings pull-down menu includes the following ready-made settings:

Text/Graph

Good for printing presentation documents such as graphs and charts.

sRGB

Best for color matching with other sRGB devices.

Advanced Photo

Advanced Photo 2880

Good for printing scanned photos and digitally-captured images in high quality. Helps prevent the misprinting of ink dots that may occur due to the movement of the print head and paper.

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Making Advanced setting

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 these steps.

Note:

The printer driver screens that appear in this procedure are for Windows 2000. The appearance of the Windows Me, 98, XP, and NT 4.0 printer driver screens differ only slightly.

Select Custom in the Main menu, and click Advanced. The Advanced menu appears.

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

Note for Enhanced Matte Paper:

When you select Enhanced Matte Paper as the Media Type, Black as the Ink, turn the MicroWeave on and the Super off, the print quality may not be what you expected. Use this combination of settings only for printing drafts.

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.

Select a Print Quality setting.

If you are using non-Epson special media, click the Paper Config, and make settings as needed. For details, see Paper Configuration.

Make Printer Color Management settings. For details, see Printer Color Management.

Note:

Some settings are enabled or disabled depending on the Media Type, Ink, and Print Quality settings you make.

Make other settings as needed. For details, see online help.

Click OK to apply your settings and return to the Main menu. If you want to return to the previous screen without applying your settings, click Cancel.

Paper Configuration

The following settings in Paper Configuration let you make the detailed paper settings.

Mode	Description
Color Density	Adjusts the strength of Color Density. Use a value in the range of -50% to +50%. Drag the slider with your mouse 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. Note: The color of printout cannot be deepened depends on the printing mode.
Drying Time per Print Head Pass	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 slow ink absorption on the media, set the value larger. The drying time per print head pass can be set in 0.1 second increments, from 0 to 5 seconds. Note: If you use this feature, printing time will be longer.
Paper Feed Adjustment	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.
Paper Suction	Decreasing the air suction at the platen is useful to avoid wrinkling or waving of thin or saturated media, or eliminating vertical banding. The relationship of the parameter and suction power is as follows. Standard : 100 % -1: 50 % -2: 30 % -3: 10 % -4: 5 %
Paper Thickness	This value automatically appears according to the media for the Media Type setting. If you use non-Epson media, modifying this value for your media is recommended. Refer to the paper specifications or print "Thickness Pattern" to find out the paper thickness.
Cut Method	Determines the best cutting method according to the paper thickness. Standard: normal speed and normal cut pressure. Thin Paper: low cut pressure. Thick Paper, fast: high speed and high cut pressure. Thick Paper, slow: low speed and high cut pressure.
Platen Gap	Platen Gap is the height from the media loaded into 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 specified. Note: Setting Platen Gap to Narrow may produce better print quality, but make sure that the media does not wrinkle or touch the print head. Otherwise, the printed data or the print head surface may be damaged. Use Wider or Widest in such case.
Eject Roller Type	Select one that best fits your media. Auto: The printer selects the most appropriate setting automatically. When you use Epson special media, usually select this setting. Starwheel-Sheet: If you want to print on cut sheet which is non-Epson special media, select this setting. Starwheel-Roll Curled: If you want to print on strongly curled roll paper which is non-Epson special media, select this setting. No Roller-Roll Normal: If you want to print on roll paper which is non-Epson special media, select this setting.

Printer Color Management

Color Controls

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 Color Enhancement sliders. For the details of additional settings, see online help.

PhotoEnhance

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 Tone, Effect, and Digital Camera Correction settings.

Note:

This mode is available only with 16-, 24-, or 32-bit color data.

Printing with PhotoEnhance selected may increase the time required for printing, depending on your computer system and the amount of data contained in your data.

Tone	Normal	This setting provides standard image correction for most photos. Try this first.
	Hard	This setting provides modulate image correction for your print data.
	Vivid	This setting provides chromatic and vivid image correction for your print data.
	Sepia	This setting applies a sepia tone to your photos.
	Monochrome	This setting applies a black and white tone to your print data.
	None	No color adjustment is applied.
Effect	Sharpness	This setting provides enhanced outline to your print data.
	Soft-focus	This setting makes your photos look as if they were taken with a soft-focus lens.
	Canvas	This setting provides an image correction as if they were drawn on a canvas to your print data.
	Parchment	This setting provides an image correction as if they were drawn on a parchment to your print data.
	None	No image effect is applied.
Digital Camera Correction		Provides your printed image the smooth and natural appearance of photographs taken by a film camera. Select this setting when printing photos taken with a digital camera.

Off (No Color Adjustment)

This setting turns off printer driver color management. Use this setting when using the color management of the application to apply ICC profile.

sRGB

This setting is useful for color matching with other sRGB devices.

ICM

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.

Note:

Be aware that the ambient light and the age, quality, and settings of the monitor can affect the quality of your color matching.

When you select this setting, you also need to make the following settings.

ICC/ICM Profile

Select standard or custom ICC/ICM profile.

Intent

Select rendering intent or color mapping preference.

Saturation:
This setting is the best option for presentation graphics to accurately reproduce vivid colors. Use this setting is not recommended for printing photo data.

Perceptual:
This setting renders images so that colors appear natural. This setting is often used to render the wide color range of the original image. Use of this setting is recommended for printing photo data.

Relative Colorimetric:
This setting renders an image by maintaining a relative color range. This setting is often used when most of the color range before conversion is found in the image after conversion. Use of this setting is recommended for 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 for printing photo data and normal conversions.

Description

Shows the description of the selected profile.

Saving the Advanced settings

To save your Advanced settings, follow these steps.

Click Save Settings. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.

Type a unique name, up to 16 characters, or your settings in the Name text box.

Click Save. Your setting will be added to the Custom Setting List.

You can save up to 100 groups of settings. You can select your saved group of 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, be aware that making new settings, for example Media Type and Ink settings, may change your custom settings. This may cause unexpected results in your printout. If this happens, reselect your saved settings and try printing again.

Note:

The names of the ready-made settings provided by Epson cannot be applied to your new settings.

Deleting the Advanced settings

To delete your Advanced setting, follow these steps.

Note:

You cannot delete ready-made settings from the Custom Settings list.

Open the Custom Settings dialog box.

Select the name of settings you want to delete.

Click Delete. The setting will be deleted from the Custom Settings list.

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Checking the Ink Levels

You can check the amount of the remaining ink of each ink cartridge.

Note:

If the printer is not connected properly or EPSON Status Monitor 3 is not installed, Cartridge Option is displayed instead.

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Previewing your printout

If you select the Print Preview check box, you can see how your data will look before printing. When you send a print job to the printer, the EPSON Print Preview window opens, allowing you to make changes before printing.

The EPSON Preview toolbar contains several icon buttons that you can use to perform the following functions.

	Zoom	Click this button to enlarge or reduce the size of the previewed page.
	Fit-to-screen	Click this button to scale the previewed page so that it fits the current window size. This is convenient when you want to see the entire page at one time.
	Maximum zoom	Click this button to display the previewed page at the maximum possible zoom ratio.
	Printable area on/off	Click this button to display a rectangle indicating the printable area on the page being previewed. The printer cannot print anything which is outside of this rectangle. Click the button again to turn this feature off.
	Previous page	Click this button to display the page previous to the one currently being previewed. If there is no previous page, this feature is not available.
	Next page	Click this button to display the next page in the data. If there is no next page, this feature is not available.

You can also manipulate the previewed data in the following ways.

Select and preview individual pages.

Reduce or enlarge the size of preview.

Select and print any or all pages.

Magnify the previewed document. To do this, click View, and 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 which part of the document is magnified.

Specify which pages in the document you would like to print. To do this, click Print Option, and select Remove Page or Add Page.

After you have previewed the data, click Print to print the data, or click Cancel to cancel printing.

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