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Printing with Windows

Making Settings on the Paper Menu

Making the Paper Source setting
Making the Borderless setting
Making the Auto Cut setting
Making the Paper Size setting
Making the Printable Area setting
Making the Roll Paper Option settings
Making the Orientation settings
Making the Copies setting

You can make Paper Source, Borderless, Paper Size, Roll Paper Option, Orientation, Copies, and Printable Area or Roll Paper Option settings on this menu.

Note:

When Paper Tray or Manual Feed is selected as the Paper Source, Printable Area is displayed on the menu, and this is the default.When Roll Paper or Roll Paper Banner is selected as the Paper Source, Roll Paper Option is displayed on the menu.

Making the Paper Source setting

You can select Paper Tray, Roll Paper, Roll Paper (Banner), or Manual Feed from the Paper Source. Select one that matches the paper loaded in the printer.

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Making the Borderless setting

You can print your data without margins on the paper.

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

Accommodate media width:

8 inch, 203.2 mm

210 mm (A4)

Letter (8.5 in), 215.9 mm

10 inch, 254 mm

257 mm

297 mm (A3)

300 mm

12 inch, 304.8 mm

329 mm (Super A3/B)

13 inch, 330.2 mm

14 inch, 355.6 mm

400 mm

16 inch, 406.4 mm

420 mm (A2)

17 inch, 431.8 mm

Note:

You cannot perform borderless printing on cut sheet media with a width of 420 mm (A2).

When printing on roll paper with a width of 8 inches or 420 mm (A2), attach a spacer to the spindle. See Attaching the spacer to the spindle.

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

When printing on cut sheet media, only the left and right margins are set to zero.

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 than for normal printing.

When printing on the following media, the bottom margin is always 14 mm.

EPSON Premium Glossy Photo Paper
EPSON Premium Semigloss Photo Paper
EPSON Premium Luster Photo Paper
EPSON Proofing Paper Semimatte
EPSON Smooth Fine Art Paper
EPSON Textured Fine Art Paper
EPSON Velvet Fine Art Paper

When printing on EPSON Premium Glossy Photo Paper (250) roll paper or EPSON Premium Semigloss Photo Paper (250) roll paper, the top margin is always 20 mm.

To print your data with this feature, follow these steps.

Select Borderless.

Choose Auto Expand or Retain Size from the pull-down menu next to the Borderless check box.

Auto Expand

Select this setting if you want to enlarge the size of print data automatically and print with no margins.

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.

If you select this setting, you need to enlarge your image data to exceed the paper width, to avoid unprinted areas appearing along the left and right edges. Enlarging 3mm in both the left and right directions is recommended, using the application with which you made data.

If you do so, see Making the Paper Size setting.

Make the Auto Cut setting. For details, see Making the Auto Cut setting.

Click OK.

Start printing your data from your application.

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Making the Auto Cut setting

This setting is available only when Roll Paper or Roll Paper (Banner) is selected as the Paper Source. You can select how the paper is cut after printing.

Single Cut

Select this setting if you want to save paper. If you select this setting, the boundary of a picture and a picture, or boundary of a page and page is cut. However, the cut position may shift slightly.

Note:

When printing on EPSON Premium Glossy Photo Paper (250) roll paper or EPSON Premium Semigloss Photo Paper (250) roll paper, do not select this setting; otherwise, print quality may decline.

Double Cut

Select this setting to avoid the slight gap that occurs with the Single Cut setting. A margin is created between the pictures, and 1mm along the inside of each picture is cut.

Normal Cut

Select this setting to keep margins at the top and bottom of the printed data.

Off

Select this setting to cut the printouts manually. To cut the printouts manually, follow these steps.

Press the Paper Feed or Paper Feed button, and match the cutting position with the scissors mark on the left side of the print head.

Press the Paper Source button to select Roll Auto Cut On .

Press and hold the Paper Source button for 3 seconds. The paper cutter cuts the printout at the cutting position.

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Making the Paper Size setting

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

You can also add a custom paper size. To do this, follow these steps.

Select User Defined in the Paper Size. The User Defined Paper Size dialog box appears.

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

Note:

If you are using Windows Me or 98, the maximum paper height is 44 inches (111.8 cm).

Click OK to save the custom paper size you entered.

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Making the Printable Area setting

This setting is available when you select Paper Tray or Manual Feed as the Paper Source. You can make the following settings.

Standard

Select this setting to use the standard printable area.

Maximum

Select this setting to increase the printable area at the bottom edge.

Note:

This setting is available only when Plain Paper, Plain Paper (line drawing), or Tracing Paper is selected as the Media Type.

The print quality may decline at the edges of the printout when this setting is selected. Before printing large jobs using this setting, print a single sheet to confirm quality.When this setting is selected, make sure that the paper loaded in the paper tray is not curled.

Centered

Select this setting to center the printout.

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Making the Roll Paper Option settings

This option is available when you select Roll Paper or Roll Paper (Banner) as the Paper Source. You can make the following settings.

Auto Rotate

Note:

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

This function is effective only when the print data length is shorter than the printable width of the roll paper. The print data will automatically be turned 90 degrees to print crosswise, saving roll paper.

To enable this function, follow these steps.

Select Auto Rotate. The Roll Paper Width button is activated.

Click Roll Width. Roll Paper Width dialog box appears.

Select the installed roll paper size from the pull-down menu.

Click OK.

Print Page Line

This function lets you specify whether to print a page line on the right side, and also below the document for manual cutting. To enable this function, select Print Page Line.

The Print Page Line operation changes according to the Auto Cut setting. Check these settings as necessary by referring the printer's operation.

Auto Cut	Print Page Line	Printer's Operation
Single Cut Double Cut Normal Cut	Selected	Prints page line on the right side only, and cuts paper automatically after the print job.
Single Cut Double Cut Normal Cut	Not selected	Does not print page line, but cuts paper automatically after the print job.
Off	Selected	Prints page lines on the right side and below the document, but does not cut paper automatically after the print job.
Off	Not selected	Does not print page lines nor cut.

Save Roll Paper

Note:

This function is available only when Roll Paper (Banner) is selected as the Paper Source.

This function is effective if you wish to save roll paper because the blank portion of the last page of your printed data not fed through the printer.

To enable this function, select Save Roll Paper.

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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.

Note:
This function is not available when Roll Paper (Banner) is selected as the Paper Source.

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Making the Copies setting

You can specify the number of copies. Type the number you want in the Copies box, or click the arrow next to the box. You can enter any number from 1 to 9999.

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