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Printing with Mac OS X
Printer
Presets
Copies & Pages
Layout
Output Options
Print Settings
Printer Color Management
Paper Configuration
Roll Paper Option
Expansion
Summary
Saving your settings in the Print dialog
Using your saved settings in the Print dialog
Preview
You can make the appropriate Printer and Presets settings use for printing.
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Select a printer you want to use.
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You can select Standard or Save As.
Prints with the current settings.
Prints with the custom saved settings.
You can make the appropriate Copies, Collated, Pages settings that you want to use for printing.
To make the Copies setting, enter the number of copies that you want to print in the Copies text box.
To make print order setting, select Collated to print one complete document set at a time when printing multiple copies.
To make the Pages setting, select either All or From and to. If you select From and to, enter the first page of the appropriate range of pages in the From text box and the last page in the to text box.
You can make the appropriate Pages per Sheet, Layout Direction, and Border settings that you want to use for printing.
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You can print multiple pages of your data on a single piece of paper. You can select from 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, or 16.
You can specify the order in which the pages will be printed on the sheet of paper.
You can print a border around the pages printed on each sheet. You can select from None, Single hairline, Single thin line, Double hairline, or Double thin line.
You can print your data as a file if you click the Save as File check box, and select its format from the Format pull-down menu.
If you want to print your data on paper, clear the Save as File check box.
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You can make the Media Type, Color, and Mode settings.
Shows the print area that has been chosen from the Paper Size list in the Page Setup dialog. Select the print area chosen from the Paper Size list in the Page Setup dialog.
When printing on cut-sheet paper, select Paper Tray if you are using the paper tray or select Manual Feed if you are using the front or rear manual feed slot.
The Media Type setting determines what other settings are available; therefore, always make this setting first.
From Media Type, select a media that matches the paper loaded in the printer. Find your paper in the list, and then select a corresponding Media Type setting. For some kinds of paper, several Media Type settings are available for selection.
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Media Type Setting |
Epson Special Media Name/Description |
Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper |
Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper |
Singleweight Matte Paper |
Singleweight Matte Paper |
Enhanced Matte Paper |
Enhanced Matte Paper |
Archival Matte Paper |
Archival Matte Paper |
Photo Glossy Paper |
Photo Glossy Paper |
Photo Semigloss Paper |
Photo Semigloss Paper |
Premium Glossy Photo Paper |
Premium Glossy Photo Paper |
Premium Semigloss Photo Paper |
Premium Semigloss Photo Paper |
Premium Luster Photo Paper |
Premium Luster Photo Paper |
Premium Luster Photo Paper (250) |
Premium Luster Photo Paper (250) |
Premium Glossy Photo Paper (250) |
Premium Glossy Photo Paper (250) |
Premium Semigloss Photo Paper (250) |
Premium Semigloss Photo Paper (250) |
Premium Semimatte Photo Paper (250) |
Premium Semimatte Photo Paper (250) |
Photo Paper Gloss 250 |
Photo Paper Gloss 250 |
Proofing Paper Semimatte |
EPSON Proofing Paper Semimatte (Commercial) |
Watercolor Paper - Radiant White |
Watercolor Paper - Radiant White |
Textured Fine Art Paper |
Textured Fine Art Paper |
Velvet Fine Art Paper |
Velvet Fine Art Paper |
UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper |
UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper |
Plain Paper |
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Plain Paper (Line drawing) |
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Singleweight Matte Paper (line drawing) |
Singleweight Matte Paper |
Tracing Paper |
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Make the Color setting. Select Color/B&W Photo to print color or monochrome photos, or Black to print a draft or black text only.
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Make the Color setting. Select Color to print color or monochrome photos, or Black to print a draft or black text only. If you want to print advanced monochrome photos, select Advanced B&W Photo.
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You can select the Automatic, Custom, or Advanced settings.
Automatic 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 Color settings.
Depending on the media you choose in the Media Type setting while Color (or Color/B&W Photo) or Black is selected as the Color setting and Automatic as the Mode setting, a Quality or Speed slider appears in the Mode box. Select Quality when print quality is more important than print speed. Select Speed when print speed is more important than print quality.
When Color (or Color/B&W Photo) is selected as the Color setting and Automatic as the Mode setting, the Color Control pull-down menu appears.
You can select from the following settings.
EPSON Vivid |
Select this setting to produce vivid blue and green tones in printouts.
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Charts and Graphs |
Intensifies the colors and lightens the midtones and highlights of an image. Use this setting for presentation graphics, such as charts and graphs. |
EPSON Standard (sRGB) |
For EPSON Stylus Pro 4800 only: |
Adobe RGB |
For EPSON Stylus Pro 4800 only: |
Custom 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.
The Custom Settings pull-down menu includes the following ready-made settings.
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Advanced Photo Advanced Photo 2880 dpi |
Good for printing scanned photos and digitally captured images in high quality. Helps prevent misprinting of ink dots that may occur due to movement of the print heads and paper. |
ColorSync |
Automatically adjusts printout colors to match colors on your screen. |
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 list.
Print Quality |
Select the print quality that you want to use for printing. |
Super MicroWeave |
Gives you slightly more detail, but the print time will be longer. |
High Speed |
Activates bidirectional printing so your printer prints in both left-to-right and right-to-left directions. This setting speeds up printing, but decreases the print quality. |
Flip Horizontal |
Prints your data as it would appear in a mirror. Text and graphics appear reversed. |
Finest Detail |
Depending on the Print Quality setting you select, you can turn on Finest Detail to print text, solid graphics, and line art with very sharp edges. |
Color Toning (For EPSON Stylus Pro 4800 only) |
When you select Advanced B&W Photo as the Color, the Color Toning pull-down menu appears.
Neutral:
Cool:
Warm:
Sepia:
Fine Adjustment: |
This option gives you control over the color matching and adjustment methods provided by the printer driver.
Use these settings to experiment with new printing ideas or to fine-tune a range of printer settings to meet your individual needs. Once you are satisfied with your new settings, you can add them to the Custom Setting list in the Print dialog.
Select this setting to use the color matching and adjustment methods provided with the printer. Click the triangle next to the Advanced Settings to see details.
EPSON Vivid |
Select this setting to enrich the blue and green tones in printouts.
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Charts and Graphs |
Intensifies the colors and lightens the midtones and highlights of an image. Use this setting for presentation graphics, such as charts and graphs. |
EPSON Standard (sRGB) |
For EPSON Stylus Pro 4800 only: |
Adobe RGB |
For EPSON Stylus Pro 4800 only: |
Controls image contrast by modifying the midtones and mid-level grays.
The color enhancement sliders adjust the indicated options in a range of -25% to +25%.
Drag the slider to the right or left with your mouse to adjust the settings. You can also type a value from -25% to +25% in the boxes next to the sliders.
When Advanced B&W Photo is selected as the Color, the following screen appears. You can adjust the advanced monochrome settings. For the details of additional settings, see the online help.
This setting automatically adjusts printout colors to match colors on your screen. Select this setting when printing scanned photographs or computer graphics.
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This setting is generally not recommended, because it does not allow the printer driver to enhance or adjust the color in any way. Only use this setting when you create a new color profile or if the other Mode settings do not produce satisfactory results.
The following settings in Paper Configuration let you make the detailed paper settings. If you are using non-Epson special media, make these settings as needed.
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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 direction (+) to deepen the color of your printout or left direction (-) 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 scroll bar to the 0 position when you print on Epson special media.
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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 using slow ink absorption on the media, set a higher value. The drying time per print head pass can be set from 0 to 5 seconds, in 0.1 second increments.
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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 Thickness |
This value automatically appears according to the media for the Media Type setting. If you use non-Epson media, modify this value for your media is recommended. Refer to the paper specifications, or print "Thickness Pattern" to find out the paper thickness. |
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% |
Cut Method |
Determines the best cutting method according to the paper thickness.
Standard: Normal speed and normal cut pressure |
Platen Gap |
Platen Gap is the height from the media loaded in 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 setting specified.
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Eject Roller Type |
Select the Eject Roller Type that best fits your media.
Auto:
Starwheel-Sheet:
Starwheel-Roll Curled:
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You can make Auto Cut, Print Page Line, and Save Roll Paper settings.
You can select the following cutting methods.
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.
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Select this setting to avoid the slight gap that occurs with the Single Cut setting. A margin is created between the pictures, and 1 mm along the inside of each picture is cut.
Select this setting to keep margins at the top and bottom of the printed data.
Select this setting to cut the printouts manually. To cut the printouts manually, follow the steps below.
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 Auto Cut On . |
Press and hold the Paper Source button for 3 seconds. The paper cutter cuts the printout at the cutting position. |
You can specify whether to print a page line on the right side and also below the printed data for manual cutting.
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 |
Selected |
Prints page line on the right side only, and cuts paper automatically after the print job. |
Single Cut |
Not selected |
Does not print page line, and cuts paper automatically after the print job. |
Off |
Selected |
Prints page lines on the right side and below the printed data, but does not cut paper automatically after the print job. |
Off |
Not selected |
Does not print page lines or cut paper automatically after the print job. |
This function is effective if you wish to save roll paper, because blank portion of the last page or your printed data is not fed through the printer.
You can print your data without margins on paper. This menu appears when you select the paper size with Borderless (Auto Expand), Borderless (Auto Expand, Maximum), or Roll Paper - Borderless (Auto Expand) as the Paper Size in the Page Setup dialog.
Amount of Enlargement |
Using the slider, you can control the amount of the image that extends beyond the edges of paper during borderless printing. For most print jobs, Standard is recommended to eliminate margins on all sides of 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 paper. |
You can confirm the current settings in the Print dialog.
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To save your settings in the Print dialog, follow the steps below.
Select Save as from the Presets. |
Enter the name of the custom setting in the Save Preset As. |
Make sure that the name you entered in step 2 is saved in the Presets pull-down menu. |
To use your saved settings, select the name of your custom setting from the Presets pull-down menu.
If you change the Media Type or Color settings while your customized setting is selected in the Saved Settings list, your saved setting is not affected by the change. To return to your saved setting, simply reselect it in the list.
You can see how your data will look before actually printing it.
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To preview your data, follow the steps below.
Make your printer driver settings. |
Click Preview in the Print dialog. The Preview dialog appears and displays a preview of your data. |
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