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How to / 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 the print quality setting

You can change the print quality of printouts through settings in the printer driver. The printer driver provides you with the choice of letting the printer make the settings automatically, 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. If you need high quality output, choose a higher number. Please note that doing so reduces the print speed.

When the Automatic button 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:

Online help provides more information on printer driver settings.

Click the Basic Settings tab.

Select the Automatic radio button. Then choose the desired printing resolution from Fast (300 dpi) to Fine (600 dpi) with the slider bar.

Click OK to accept the setting.

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 these steps to use the predefined settings.

Select the Advanced radio button on the Basic Settings menu. You will find the predefined settings in the list on the right of the Automatic radio button.

Note:

This screen is a Windows 98/ 95 screen.

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 graphs and charts.

Photo

Suitable for printing photos.

PhotoEnhance4

Suitable for printing images captured using the video input, a digital camera, or scanner. 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 equipment such as a scanner or a display 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 regular printing that gives priority to high-quality printing.

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

Many users will never need to make their own print settings manually. However, 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.

Follow these steps to customize your print settings.

Select the Advanced radio button in the Basic Settings tab, then click More Settings. The following dialog box appears.

Note:

This screen is a Windows 98, 95 screen.

Choose Color or Black as the Color setting, then make other settings. For details on each setting, click the Help button.

Click OK to apply your settings and return to the Basic Settings tab. Click Cancel to return to the Basic Settings tab without applying your settings.

Saving your settings

To save your custom settings, select the Advanced radio button and 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, and click Save. Your settings will appear in the list to the right of the Automatic radio button in the Basic Settings tab.

Note:

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

To delete a custom setting, select the Advanced radio button and click Save Settings in the Basic Settings tab, select the setting in the Custom Settings dialog box, and 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 predefined 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.

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 for the Location to print the reduced page image at the upper left corner of the paper. Select Center to print the reduced page image in the center.

Click OK to accept the settings.

To resize pages by a specified percentage

Click the Layout tab.

Select the Zoom Options check box.

Select the Zoom To check box.

Specify the magnification percentage in the box, then click OK. The percentage can be set between 50% and 200% in 1% increments.

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, and 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.

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 Pages selected above, and the paper orientation (Portrait or Landscape) selected on the Basic Settings tab.

Click OK to close the Print Layout Settings dialog box.

Click OK on the Layout menu to accept the settings.

Duplex and Layout printing functions are combined in the Printing of Binding feature.

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Using a watermark

Follow the steps to use a watermark on your document. In the Watermark dialog box, you can select from a list of predefined watermarks, or you can select a bitmap (.BMP) file as your own custom watermark. 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.

Click Watermark Settings. The Watermark dialog box appears.

Select a watermark from the Watermark Name drop-down list.

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.

Select the color from the Color drop-down list.

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

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

Select Front (to print the watermark on the face of the document) or Back (to print the watermark on the backside of the document) for the Position setting.

Click OK to accept the settings.

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.

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.

Note:

Before making a custom watermark, you should prepare a bitmap (.bmp) file.

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

Click OK to register the new watermark settings.

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Duplex printing

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.

To use Printing for Binding, the Duplex Unit must be installed and enabled in the Duplex Print Unit check box on the Optional Settings menu. However, this check box is checked automatically when the Duplex Unit is installed and the printer is connected with the computer correctly.

Select the Layout tab.

Select the Duplex check box.

Select a Binding Position from Left, Top, or Right.

Click Duplex Settings to open the Duplex Settings dialog box.

Specify the Binding Margin for the front and back sides of the paper.

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

Click OK to close the Duplex Settings dialog box.

Click OK on the Layout menu to accept the settings.

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Making Extended Settings

You can make various settings in the Extended Settings dialog box, for example Avoid Page Error. To open the dialog box, click Extended Settings on the Optional Settings tab.

Note:

This is a Windows 2000 screen.

1.	Offset	Makes fine adjustments to the printing position on the front and the back of data on a page in 1 mm increments.
2.	Front Top	Adjusts the vertical printing position of data on the front of a page.
3.	Front Left	Adjusts the horizontal printing position of data on the front of a page.
4.	Back Top	Adjusts the vertical printing position of data on the back of a page when printing with the optional Duplex Unit.
5.	Back Left	Adjusts the horizontal printing position of data on the back of a page when printing with the optional Duplex Unit.
6.	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.
7.	Skip Blank Page check box	When you select this check box, the printer skips blank pages.
8.	Ignore the selected paper size check box	When you select this check box, the printer prints on loaded paper, regardless of size.
9.	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.
10.	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.
11.	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.
12.	Monitor the Printing Status check box	Monitors the printing status. Select this check box to monitor your printer when you print.
13.	Add Coated to the Paper Type settings check box	When you select this check box, Coated appears in the Paper Type list on the Basic Settings menu and become available.
14.	OK button	Clicking this button saves your settings and exits the dialog box or printer driver. The settings are effective until you make new settings and click OK again.
15.	Cancel button	Clicking this button exits the dialog box or printer driver without saving your settings.
16.	Default button	Clicking this button returns the driver settings to the defaults set during driver installation.

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