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 five quality modes for the color printing mode and three for the black-and-white printing mode.

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. Print quality and color are the only settings you have to make. You can change other settings such as paper size or orientation in most applications.

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 Advanced. You will find the predefined settings in the list below 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 current settings list on the Setting Information dialog box that appears by pressing the Setting Info. button on the Optional Settings tab.

Suitable for printing web screens that include many icons, symbols, and colored text. This setting is effective for screens that include full color, 24, or 32 bit images. It is not effective for screens that include only illustrations, graphs, and text, and do not include any images.

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

Suitable for printing video captures, images taken with a digital camera, or scanned images. 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

To save your custom settings, click Advanced, then click Save Settings on the Basic Settings tab. 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 below of Automatic on the Basic Settings tab.

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 tab, 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.

Duplex printing prints on both sides of the paper. 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 the Duplex check box, then select Left, Top, or Right as the Binding position.

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.

To order consumables online, click the Order Online button on the Basic Settings tab. See Order Online for details.

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 reduced page image at upper left corner of the paper) or Center (to print reduced page image with centering) for Location setting.

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

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

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.

Select the Print Layout check box and the number of pages you want to print on one sheet of paper. Then click More Settings. The Print Layout Settings dialog box appears.

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

Follow the steps below to use a watermark on your document. On the Advanced Layout tab or 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.

Select a watermark that you want to use from the Watermark drop-down list. If you want to make detailed settings, click Watermark Settings. The Watermark dialog box appears.

Select the color from the Color drop-down list, then 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.

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

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.

The Overlay Settings dialog box allows you to prepare standard forms, or templates, that you can use as overlays when printing other documents. This feature can be useful for creating corporate letterheads or invoices.

When the file is ready to be saved as an overlay, choose Print or Print Setup from the File menu of your application, then click Printer, Setup, Options, Properties, or a combination of these buttons, depending on your application.

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

Select Create Overlay Data, then click Settings. The Form Settings dialog box appears.

Select the Use Form Name check box, then click Add Form Name. The Add Form dialog box appears.

Type the form name in the Form Name box and its description in the Description box.

Select To Front or To Back to specify whether the overlay will be printed as background or foreground of the document.

Click Register to apply the settings and return to Form settings dialog box.

Print the file saved as overlay data. It is possible to save any kind of file as an overlay. The overlay data is created.

From the application, access the printer driver. Open the File menu, choose Print or Print Setup, then click Printer, Setup, Options, Properties, or a combination of these buttons, depending on your application.

Select the Form Overlay check box, and click Overlay Settings to open the Overlay Settings dialog box.

Choose the form from the Form drop-down list, then click OK to return the Advanced Layout tab.

The overlay data is made with the current printer settings (such as Orientation: Portrait). If you want to make the same overlay with different printer settings (such as Landscape), follow the instructions below.

Send the same data that you made by application to the printer like step 12 in Creating an overlay.

This function enables faster printing with form overlay data. Windows users can use the form data registered on the optional Hard Disk Drive installed in the printer though only an administrator can register or delete the form data on the Hard Disk Drive. You can access this function from the Form Selection dialog box in the printer driver.

Only a network administrator using Windows XP, 2000, or Server 2003 is allowed to register the form overlay data on the optional Hard Disk Drive, using the following steps.

For Windows 2000, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Printers.
For Windows XP or Server 2003, click Start, point to Control Panel, and then double-click the Printers and Faxes icon.

If you plan to distribute the form list to the clients, click Print List to print the list.

All Windows users can use the registered form data on the optional Hard Disk Drive. Follow the steps below to print with HDD form data.

Select the Form Overlay check box, and click Overlay Settings. The Overlay Settings dialog box appears.

Select No Form name in the Form drop-down list, and click Details. The Form Selection dialog box appears.

Click Printer’s HDD. Type the form name in the text box, or click Browse and select the registered form name if the printer is connected through a network.

Select To Front or To Back to print the form data as background or foreground of the document, then click OK to return to the Advanced Layout tab.

Only a network administrator using Windows XP, 2000, or Server 2003 is allowed to delete or edit the form overlay data on the optional Hard Disk Drive, using the following steps.

If you delete all form data, click the All button, then click Delete. If you want to delete some specific data, click the Selected button, enter the form name in the Form Name edit box, then click Delete.

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

Printing mode:	High Quality (PC): Select this mode if you use a computer with higher specs to reduce the printer load. In this mode, functions such as “Form Overlay,” and “Print true type with fonts with substitution” cannot be used. High Quality (Printer): Select this mode if you use a computer with lower specs to reduce the PC load. CRT: Select this mode if your printing results are not as good as you wish with “High Quality (PC)” or “High Quality (Printer).” In this mode, functions such as “PhotoEnhance,” “Print Layout,” “Binding Method,” “Watermark,” “Form Overlay,” “Print true type with fonts with substitution,” and “Web Smoothing” cannot be used.
Print True Type fonts as bitmap radio button:	Select this check box to print, as bitmap, the True Type fonts that are not substituted with device fonts in the document.
Print True Type fonts with substitution radio button:	Select this check box to print the True Type fonts in the document as device fonts. This function is not available when the Graphic Mode setting is set to High Quality (PC).
Setting button:	Click this button to open the Font Substitution dialog box. This button is available when Print True Type fonts with substitution is selected.
Uses the settings specified on the printer radio button:	Select this check box to use the Offset, the Skip blank page, and Ignore the selected paper size settings on the control panel.
Uses the settings specified on the driver radio button:	Select this check box to use the Offset, the Skip blank page, and Ignore the selected paper size settings in the printer driver.
Offset	Makes fine adjustments to the printing position on the front and the back of data on a page in 0.5 mm increments.
Skip Blank Page check box:	When you select this check box, the printer skips blank pages.
Ignore the selected paper size check box:	When you select this check box, the printer prints on loaded paper, regardless of size.
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.
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, or Server 2003.
Extended Printable Area check box*:	Select this check box to extend printable area by decreasing the margins to 4 mm.
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.

* When Extended Printable Area check box is selected, there is 4-mm minimum margin on all sides.

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

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

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.

Click the Optional Settings tab and then click Status Sheet. The printer starts printing a status sheet.