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.

When Automatic is selected on the Basic Settings tab, the printer driver takes care of all detailed settings. 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.

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 the Basic Settings tab.

Click Advanced, then click More Settings. The following dialog is displayed.

Choose Halftone and use the slider bars to adjust the definition and intensity.

For Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3 users, 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.

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 Extended Settings.

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.
Density:	Select a print density in the range 1 to 5.
Ignore the selected paper size check box*:	When you select this check box, the printer prints on loaded paper, regardless of size.
Auto Continue check box:	Select this check box to compensate for the lack of memory when the printer does not have enough memory to print complex fonts or graphics.
Skip Blank Page Check box:	When you select this check box, the printer skips blank pages.
Pattern Smoothing check box:	Adjust pattern intensity. Note: This function is not available with Mac OS X.
Avoid Insufficient Memory Error check box:	Select this check box to compensate for the lack of memory when the printer does not have enough memory to print complex fonts or graphics.
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.

* Even if this setting is enabled, if the paper that is loaded is shorter than the paper size that is set in the printer driver, then a paper jam may occur after the printed paper is output. To solve the problem, see Documents are printed and output, but a paper jam error occurs.

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 EPSON Remote Control Panel icon. The Remote Control Panel dialog appears.

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 Printer Setup dialog appears.