User's Guide

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.

You can change the print quality of printouts to favor speed or detail. There are three levels of print output, Fast, Fine, and Super Fine. Fine and Super Fine provide high quality, precise printing, but requires more memory and slows the printing speed.

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

Select Printer Settings from the drop-down list, and select the Basic Settings tab.

Click Automatic, then choose the resolution from the Resolution drop-down list.

Click Automatic on Print Quality, then choose desired printing resolution with the slider bar.

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.

Select Printer Settings from the drop-down list, and select the Basic Settings tab.

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

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

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

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 Summary drop-down list in the Print dialog box (for Mac OS X), or in the current settings list on the left of the Basic Settings dialog box (for Mac OS 9).

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

Suitable for printing images captured using the video input, a digital camera, or scanner. EPSON PhotoEnhance 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.

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

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

Your printer provides for customized print settings if you need more control over the printout, want to make the most detailed settings available, or just want to experiment.

Select Printer Settings from the drop-down list, and select Basic Settings tab.

Click Advanced, then click More Settings. The following dialog box appears.

Save your custom settings by Save or Save As in the Preset on the Print dialog box. Type a name for your custom settings in the name box. Your settings will be saved with this name in the Preset drop-down list.

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

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

If you change any setting in the Advanced Settings dialog box when one of your custom settings is selected in the Advanced Settings list on the Basic Settings dialog box, the setting selected in the list changes to User 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.

The Fit to Page function in the Layout dialog box allows you to have your documents enlarged or reduced during printing according to the specified paper size.

Click the Layout icon on the Basic Settings dialog box. The Layout dialog box appears.

Select the Fit to Page 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.

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

Select the number of pages you want to print on one sheet of paper from the drop-down list.

Click the Layout icon on the Basic Settings dialog box. The Layout dialog box appears.

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

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

Follow the steps below to use a watermark on your document. In the Layout dialog box, you can select from a list of predefined watermarks, or you can select a bitmap (PICT) file or text file as your own custom watermark. The Layout 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 Layout icon on the Basic Settings dialog box. The Layout dialog box appears.

Select the Watermark Settings check box, then select a watermark from the Watermark drop-down list.

Select the location on the page where you want to print the watermark by dragging the watermark image on the preview window. Also, when you want to resize the watermark, drag its handle.

For your own custom text watermark, you can rotate it by inputting the degrees in the Angle box. Or select the Rotate by mouse check box, then rotate the text watermark with the pointer on the preview window.

Click the Layout icon on the Basic Settings dialog box. The Layout dialog box appears.

Select the Watermark Settings check box, then click New/Delete. The Custom Watermark dialog box appears.

Type the watermark text in the Text box, select the Font and Style, then click OK on the Text Watermark dialog box.

Select the saved custom watermark from the Watermark drop-down list on the Layout dialog box, then click OK.

Click the Layout icon on the Basic Settings dialog box. The Layout dialog box appears.

Select the Watermark Settings check box, then click New/Delete. The Custom Watermark dialog box appears.

Select the saved custom watermark from the Watermark drop-down list on the Layout dialog box, then click OK.

Duplex printing prints on both sides of the paper. 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.

Select Printer Settings from the drop-down list, and select Basic Settings tab.

Click Duplex check box, select a Binding position from Left, Top, or Right.

Select whether the front or back side of the paper is to be printed as the Start Page.

Click the Layout icon on the Basic Settings dialog box. The Layout dialog box appears.

Select whether the front or back side of the paper is to be printed as the Start Page.

You can make various settings in the Extended Settings dialog box, for example Page Protect.

For Mac OS X users, open the Print dialog box and select Printer Settings from the drop-down list, then select the Extended Settings tab.

For Mac OS 9 users, click the

Extended Settings icon on the Basic Settings dialog box.

Offset:	Makes fine adjustments to the printing position on the front and the back of data on a page in 1 mm increments.
Ignore the selected paper size check box:	When you select this check box, the printer prints on loaded paper, regardless of size.
Uses the settings specified on the printer check box:	Select this button to use the settings specified on the control panel.
Skip Blank Page check box:	When you select this check box, the printer skips blank pages.
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.
Conserve color developers check box:	Select this check box to save consumable products by printing black and white.
Adjust line thickness check box:	Adjusts the width of the lines printed. Note: This function is not available with Mac OS X.
Pattern Smoothing check box:	Adjust pattern intensity. Note: This function is not available with Mac OS X.
Default button:	For Mac OS X users, click this button to return the driver settings to the initial settings. For Mac OS 9 users, click this button to return the settings in the Temporary Spool Folder to the initial settings.
Select button:	Selects spool file saving folder. Note: This function is not available with Mac OS X.
Cancel button:	Click this button to exit the dialog box or printer driver without saving the settings.
OK button:	Click this button to save your settings and to exit the dialog box or printer driver. The settings are effective until you make new settings and click OK again. Note: This function is not available with Mac OS X.

To confirm the current status of the printer, print a status sheet from the printer driver. The status sheet contains information about the printer, the current settings.

Select Chooser from the Apple menu. Click the icon of your printer, and then select the USB port that your printer is connected to. Click Setup, and the EPSON Printer Setup dialog box appears.