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Using the Printer Software with Windows

Making Changes to Printer Settings

Making the print quality setting
Resizing printouts
Modifying the print layout
Using a watermark
Duplex printing
Making Extended Settings
Making Optional Settings

Making the print quality setting

You can change the print quality of printouts through settings in the printer driver. With the printer driver, you can make the print settings by choosing from a list of predefined settings, or customizing the settings.

Choosing the print quality by using the Automatic setting

You can change the print quality of printouts to favor speed or detail. There are two levels of print output, 300 dpi and 600 dpi. 600 dpi provides high quality, precise printing, but requires more memory and slows the printing speed.

When Automatic is selected in the Basic Settings menu, the printer driver takes care of all detailed settings according to the color setting you select. Color and resolution are the only settings you have to make. You can change other settings such as paper size or orientation in most applications.

Note:

The printer driver's online help provides details on printer driver settings.

Click the Basic Settings tab.

Click Automatic. Then choose desired printing resolution from Fast (300 dpi) or Fine (600 dpi) with the slider bar.

Click OK to apply the settings.

Note:

If printing is unsuccessful or a memory-related error message appears, selecting a lower resolution may allow printing to proceed.

Using the predefined settings

The predefined settings are provided to help you optimize print settings for a particular kind of printout, such as presentation documents or images taken by a video or digital camera.

Follow the steps below to use the predefined settings.

Click the Basic Settings tab.

Select Advanced. You will find the predefined settings in the list on the right of Automatic.

Note:

This screen may vary depending on your operating system version.

Select the most appropriate setting from the list according to the type of document or image you want to print.

When you choose a predefined setting, other settings such as Printing Mode, Resolution, Screen, and Color Management are set automatically. Changes are shown in the current settings list on the left of the Basic Settings menu.

This printer driver provides the following predefined settings:

Automatic (Standard)

Suitable for regular printing, especially photos.

Text/Graph

Suitable for printing documents that include text and graphs, such as presentation documents.

Graphic/CAD

Suitable for printing graphics and charts.

Photo

Suitable for printing photos.

PhotoEnhance4

Suitable for printing video captures, images taken with a digital camera, or scanned images. EPSON PhotoEnhance4 automatically adjusts the contrast, saturation, and brightness of the original image data to produce sharper, more vivid color printouts. This setting does not affect your original image data.

ICM (Except for Windows NT 4.0)

ICM stands for Image Color Matching. This feature automatically adjusts printout colors to match colors on your screen.

sRGB

When using equipment which supports sRGB, the printer performs Image Color Matching with these pieces of equipment before printing. To confirm that your equipment supports sRGB, contact your equipment dealer.

Automatic (High Quality)

Suitable for printing high-quality documents.

Advanced Text/Graph

Suitable for printing high-quality presentation documents that include text and graphs.

Advanced Graphic/CAD

Suitable for printing high-quality graphs, charts, and photos.

Advanced Photo

Suitable for printing high-quality scanned photos and digitally-captured images.

Customizing print settings

If you need to change detailed settings, make the settings manually.

Follow the steps below to customize your print settings.

Click the Basic Settings tab.

Click Advanced, then click More Settings.

Choose Color or Black as the Color setting, then choose desired printing resolution from 300 dpi or 600 dpi with the Resolution slider bar.

Note:

When making the other settings, see online help for details on each setting.

Note:

This screen may vary depending on your operating system.

Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Basic Settings menu.

Saving your settings

To save your custom settings, click Advanced, then click Save Settings on the Basic Settings menu. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.

Type a name for your custom settings in the Name box, then click Save. Your settings will appear in the list to the right of Automatic in the Basic Settings menu.

Note:

You cannot use a predefined setting name for your custom settings.

To delete a custom setting, click Advanced, click Save Settings in the Basic Settings menu, select the setting in the Custom Settings dialog box, then click Delete.

You cannot delete predefined settings.

If you change any setting in the More Settings dialog box when one of your custom settings is selected in the Advanced Settings list on the Basic Settings menu, the setting selected in the list changes to Custom Settings. The custom setting that was previously selected is not affected by this change. To return to your custom setting, simply reselect it from the current settings list.

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Resizing printouts

You can have your document enlarged or reduced during printing.

To automatically resize pages to fit the output paper

Click the Layout tab.

Select the Zoom Options check box, then select the desired paper size from the Output Paper drop-down list. The page will be printed to fit on the paper you have selected.

Select Upper Left (to print the reduced page image in the upper left corner of the paper) or Center (to print the reduced page image in the center of the paper) for Location setting.

Click OK to apply the settings.

Resizing pages by a specified percentage

Click the Layout tab.

Select the Zoom Options check box.

Select the Zoom To check box, then specify the magnification percentage in the box.

Note:

The percentage can be set between 50% and 200% in 1% increments.

Click OK to apply the settings.

If necessary, select the paper size to be printed from the Output Paper drop-down list.

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Modifying the print layout

Your printer can print either two or four pages onto a single page and specifies the printing order, automatically resizing each page to fit the specified paper size. You can also choose to print documents surrounded by a frame.

Click the Layout tab.

Select the Print Layout check box, then click Print Layout Settings. The Print Layout Settings dialog box appears.

Select the number of pages you want to print on one sheet of paper. Then Select the Page Order in which the pages are printed on each sheet.

Select the Print the Frame check box when you want to print the pages surrounded by a frame.

Note:

The Page Order choices depend on the number of pages selected above, and the paper orientation (Portrait or Landscape) selected on the Basic Settings menu.

Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Layout menu.

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Using a watermark

Follow the steps below to print a watermark on your document. In the Watermark dialog box, you can select from a list of predefined watermarks, or you can make an original watermark with text or a bitmap. The Watermark dialog box also allows you to make a variety of detailed watermark settings. For example, you can select the size, intensity, and position of your watermark.

Click the Special tab.

Select the Watermark check box, then click Watermark Settings. The Watermark dialog box appears.

Select a watermark from the Watermark Name drop-down list, then select the color from the Color drop-down list.

Adjust the image intensity of the watermark with the Intensity slider bar.

Select Front (to print the watermark in the foreground of the document) or Back (to print the watermark in the background of the document) for the Position setting.

Select the location on the page where you want to print the watermark from the Location drop-down list.

Adjust the horizontal or vertical Offset position.

Adjust the size of the watermark with the Size slider bar.

Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Special menu.

Making a new watermark

You can make a new watermark as follows.

Click the Special tab.

Select the Watermark check box.

Click Watermark Settings. The Watermark dialog box appears.

Click New/Delete. The User Defined Watermarks dialog box appears.

Select Text or BMP and type a name for the new watermark in the Name box.

Note:

This screen appears when you select Text.

If you select Text, type the watermark text in the Text box. If you select BMP, click Browse, select the BMP file you want to use, then click OK.

Click Save. Your watermark will appear in the List box.

Click OK to apply the new watermark settings.

Note:

You can register up to 10 watermarks.

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Duplex printing

Duplex printing prints on both sides of the paper. You can do duplex printing automatically by installing the optional Duplex Unit. You can also do duplex printing manually without using the Duplex Unit. When printing for binding, the binding edge can be specified as required to produce the desired page order.

As an ENERGY STAR^® partner, Epson recommends the use of the double-sided printing function. Refer to ENERGY STAR^®Compliance for more information on the ENERGY STAR^®program.

Printing with the Duplex Unit

Follow the steps below to print with the Duplex Unit.

Click the Layout tab.

Select the Duplex check box, then select Left, Top, or Right as the Binding position.

Click Duplex Settings to open the Duplex Settings dialog box.

Specify the Binding Margin for the front and back sides of the paper, then select whether the front or back side of the paper is to be printed as the Start Page.

When printing for binding as a booklet, select the Binding Method check box and make appropriate settings. For details about each setting, see online help.

Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Layout menu.

Doing duplex printing manually

You can do duplex printing manually without the optional Duplex Unit.

Click the Basic Settings tab.

Make sure that the Manual Feed check box is off.

Note:

The manual feed function is not available when using the manual duplex function.

Click the Layout tab.

Select the Duplex (Manual) check box.

Click OK.

Execute the print job.

After printing on one side, reload the paper into the MP tray with the printed surface face down as shown below. Then, press the Start/Stop button.

Note:

Manual duplex printing may not be completed normally when printing a document for which the paper size, orientation, or paper source setting is set to change in the document.

When doing duplex printing manually with collate set on the printer driver, the printing may not be completed normally depending on the application you use.

When loading the paper, straighten it well. If curled paper is loaded, it may not be fed correctly.

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Making Extended Settings

You can make various settings in the Extended Settings dialog box. To open the dialog box, click Extended Settings on the Optional Settings menu.

Offset:		Makes fine adjustments to the printing position on the front and the back of data on a page in 1 mm increments.
Uses the settings specified on the printer button:		Select this button to use the settings specified on the control panel.
Uses the settings specified on the driver button:		Select this button to use the settings specified in the printer driver.
Ignore the selected paper size check box:		When you select this check box, the printer prints on the loaded paper, regardless of size.
Auto Continue check box:		Select this check box to clear errors automatically and continue printing after a given time (about 5 seconds) when Paper Set, Print Overrun, or Mem Overflow occurs.
Data Compression Level:		Select the compression level for image data from the drop-down list. For example, selecting Low (Higher Quality) provides better print quality, but slows the printing speed.
Automatically change to monochrome mode check box:		Select this check box to have the printer driver analyze the printing data, and automatically switch to monochrome mode if the printing data is black and white.
Skip Blank Page check box:		When you select this check box, the printer skips blank pages.
High Speed Graphics Output check box:		Select this check box to optimize the printing speed of graphics composed of line drawings such as overlaid circles and squares. Clear this check box if graphics do not print correctly.
Uses the collate settings specified in the application check box:		Select this check box to enable the collate settings that are specified on the application.
Uses the spooling method provided by the operating system check box:		Select this check box to enable the Spool function for Windows XP, 2000, NT 4.0, or Server 2003.
Avoid Page Error check box:		Select this check box to avoid Print Overrun errors when printing data which requires a lot of memory to print, such as documents with a large number of complex fonts or graphics. Doing so may slow down printing somewhat.
Default button:		Click this button to return the driver settings to the initial settings.
Help button:		Click this button to open online help.
Cancel button:		Click this button to exit the dialog box or printer driver without saving the settings.
OK button:		Click this button to save the settings and to exit the dialog box or printer driver.

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Making Optional Settings

You can update the installed option information manually if you have installed options to your printer.

Click the Optional Settings tab, then select the Update the Printer Option Info Manually button.

Click Settings. The Optional Settings dialog box appears.

Make settings for each installed option, then click OK.

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