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Printing with Mac OS 9.x

Basic Settings

Making the printer driver settings
Canceling printing

Making the printer driver settings

This section describes the basic printer driver settings for printing your data.

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

Note:

While many Macintosh applications override the settings made in the printer driver, some do not, so you must verify the settings to get the results you expect.

Click Page Setup on the File menu of your application. The Page Setup dialog appears.

From the Paper Size list, select the size of paper loaded in the printer.

Select a paper source from the Paper Source list.

Select Borderless if you want to print your data with no margins. See Making the Borderless setting.

Make settings for Orientation, Double-Sided Printing, and Reduce or Enlarge, as necessary.

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

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

After making your settings, click OK to close the Page Setup dialog.

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

From Media Type, select a media that matches the paper loaded in the printer. See Media Type setting list.

Note:

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

Make the settings for Copies and Pages.

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

For EPSON Stylus Pro 4800 only:
If you want to print advanced monochrome photos, select Advanced B&W Photo.

Note:

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

Make the Mode setting. Check that Automatic is selected.

Note:

When Automatic is selected, the printer driver takes controls of all detailed settings based on the current Media Type setting and Color settings.

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

For EPSON Stylus Pro 4800 only:
If you have selected Advanced B&W Photo as the Color setting, select the Color Toning setting from the pull-down menu.

Note:

Depending on the Media Type setting you choose, a slider may not appear in the Mode box.

Select the color control mode from the pull-down menu in the Mode box. For detailed information, see Color Control mode.

Click Print to start printing.

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Canceling printing

To cancel printing in progress, follow the steps below.

Caution:

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

When background printing is on

Select EPSON Monitor IV from the Application menu at the right end of the menu bar.

Turn off the printer.

Click the name of data which is in print process on the screen, then click Stop to cancel the print job.

When background printing is off

Turn off the printer.

Hold down the Command key on your keyboard, and press the [.] period key to cancel the print job.

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