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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 Copies setting
Making the Orientation settings
Making the Printable Area setting
Making the Roll Paper Option settings

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

Note:

When Paper Tray or Manual Feed is selected as the Paper Source setting, Printable Area appears on the menu by default. When Roll Paper or Roll Paper (Banner) is selected as the Paper Source setting, Roll Paper Option appears on the menu.

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 Paper Tray, Roll Paper, Roll Paper (Banner), or Manual Feed from the Paper Source setting. 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 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 time than normal printing.

Only Plain Paper and Plain Paper (line drawing) can set the bottom margin to 3 mm. When printing on the other media, the bottom margin is always 14 mm.

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

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

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 with no 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.

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 3 mm in both the left and right directions is recommended, using the application that created the data.

To use this feature, see Making the Paper Size setting.

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, Standard is recommended in order to eliminate margins on all sides of the paper.

In a very humid environment, the width of paper may expand due to moisture absorption. In this case, move the slider to Max to eliminate margins around the image. If Max is selected, the center of the image may move about 1 mm to the right.

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.

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 setting. 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 or the boundary of a page is cut. However, the cut position may shift slightly.

Note:

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

This setting appears only when the Borderless check box is selected.

Double Cut

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

Note:

This setting appears only when the Borderless check box is selected.

Normal Cut

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

Off

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

Press the Paper Feed or Paper Feed button, and then 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 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.

Note:

If you are using Windows Me or 98, the maximum paper height is 44 inches (111.76 cm).

Click OK to save the custom paper size.

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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.

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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 setting.

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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 setting. You can make the following settings.

Standard

Select this setting to use the standard printable area.

Note:

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

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 setting.

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

Centered

Select this setting to center printouts.

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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 setting. You can make the following settings.

Auto Rotate

Note:

This function is available only when Roll Paper is selected as the Paper Source setting.

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 the steps below.

Select Auto Rotate. The Roll Width button is activated.

Click Roll Width. The 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 to 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 or cut paper.

Save Roll Paper

Note:

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

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

To enable this function, select Save Roll Paper.

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