EPSON C2800 User Manual

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User’s Guide

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Copyright and Trademarks

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Seiko Epson Corporation. No patent liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained herein. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

Neither Seiko Epson Corporation nor its affiliates shall be liable to the purchaser of this product or third parties for damages, losses, costs, or expenses incurred by purchaser or third parties as a result of: accident, misuse, or abuse of this product or unauthorized modifications, repairs, or alterations to this product, or (excluding the U.S.) failure to strictly comply with Seiko Epson Corporation’s operating and maintenance instructions.

Seiko Epson Corporation and its affiliates shall not be liable against any damages or problems arising from the use of any options or any consumable products other than those designated as Original Epson Products or Epson Approved Products by Seiko Epson Corporation.

Features Zoran Corporation Integrated Print System (IPS) for print language emulation.

A part of the ICC Profile contained within this product was created by Gretag Macbeth ProfileMaker. Gretag Macbeth is the registered trademark of Gretag Macbeth Holding AG Logo. ProfileMaker is the trademark of LOGO GmbH.

IBM and PS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.

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EPSON and EPSON ESC/P are registered trademarks and EPSON AcuLaser and EPSON ESC/P 2 are trademarks of Seiko Epson Corporation.

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and Windows® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States of America and other countries.

and Macintosh® are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc.

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PCL is the registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company. HP and HP LaserJet are registered trademarks of the Hewlett-Packard Company.

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Adobe, the Adobe logo and PostScript3 are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

General Notice: Other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. Epson disclaims any and all rights in those marks.

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Operating System Versions

In this manual, the following abbreviations are used.

Windows refers to Windows Vista, XP, Vista x64, XP x64, 2000, Server 2003, and Server 2003 x64.

❏ Windows Vista refers to Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, Windows Vista

Home Basic Edition, Windows Vista Enterprise Edition and Windows Vista Business Edition.

❏ Windows Vista x64 refers to Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Edition, Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Edition,

Windows Vista Home Basic x64 Edition, Windows Vista Enterprise x64 Edition and Windows Vista Business x64 Edition.

❏ Windows XP refers to Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional. ❏ Windows XP x64 refers to Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. ❏ Windows 2000 refers to Windows 2000 Professional. ❏ Windows Server 2003 refers to Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise

Edition.

❏ Windows Server 2003 x64 refers to Windows Server 2003 x64 Standard Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64

Enterprise Edition.

Macintosh refers to Mac OS X.

❏ Mac OS X refers to Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.

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Safety Instructions

Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Warnings, Cautions, and Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Important Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Power On/Off Cautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Chapter 1 Getting to Know Your Printer

Where to Find Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Printer Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Front view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Inside the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Options and Consumable Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Consumable products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Chapter 2 Printer Features and Various Printing Options

Printer Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

High-speed tandem printing engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Pre-defined color settings in the printer driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Toner save mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Resolution Improvement Technology and Enhanced MicroGray technology. . . . . . . . . 27

Wide variety of fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Adobe PostScript 3 Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

PCL Emulation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Various Printing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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Double-sided printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Fit to page printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Pages per sheet printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Watermark printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Header/Footer printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Overlay printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Using the Reserve Job function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Web-Page Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Chapter 3 Paper Handling

Paper Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

MP tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Standard lower paper cassette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

550-sheet Paper Cassette Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Selecting a paper source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Loading Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

MP tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Standard lower paper cassette and optional paper cassette unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Output tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Printing on Special Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

EPSON Color Laser Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

EPSON Color Laser Transparencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

EPSON Color Laser Coated Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Labels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Thick paper and extra thick paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Loading a custom paper size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Chapter 4 Using the Printer Software with Windows

About the Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Accessing the printer driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Making Changes to Printer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Making the print quality settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Duplex printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Displaying information about consumables with the printer driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Ordering Consumables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Modifying the print layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Resizing printouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Using a watermark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Using headers and footers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

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Using an overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Making Extended Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Making Optional Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Printing a status sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Using the Reserve Job Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Re-Print Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Verify Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Confidential Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Monitoring Your Printer Using EPSON Status Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Installing EPSON Status Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Accessing EPSON Status Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Information on EPSON Status Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Simple Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Detailed Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Consumables Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Job Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Notice Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Order Online. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Tray Icon Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Setting Up the USB Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Canceling Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Uninstalling the Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Uninstalling the printer driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Sharing the Printer on a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Sharing the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using an additional driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Setting up clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Installing the printer driver from the CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Chapter 5 Using the Printer Software with Macintosh

About the Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Accessing the printer driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Making Changes to Printer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Making the print quality settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Resizing printouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Modifying the print layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Using a watermark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Using headers and footers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Duplex printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Making Extended Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Using the Reserve Job Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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Re-Print Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Verify Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Confidential Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Monitoring Your Printer using EPSON Status Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Accessing EPSON Status Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Simple Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Detailed Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Consumables Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Job Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Notice Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Setting Up the USB Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

For Mac OS X users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Canceling Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

For Mac OS X users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Uninstalling the Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

For Mac OS X users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Sharing the Printer on a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Sharing the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

For Mac OS X users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Chapter 6 Using the PostScript Printer Driver

About the PostScript 3 Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Hardware requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

System requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Using the PostScript Printer Driver with Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Installing the PostScript printer driver for the USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Installing the PostScript printer driver for the network interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Accessing the PostScript printer driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Making changes to PostScript printer settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Using AppleTalk under Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Using the PostScript Printer Driver with Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Installing the PostScript printer driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Selecting the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Accessing the PostScript printer driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Making changes to PostScript printer settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Chapter 7 Using the PCL6/PCL5 Printer Driver

About the PCL Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Hardware requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

System requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

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Using the PCL6/PCL5 Printer Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Chapter 8 Using the Control Panel

Using the Control Panel Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

When to make control panel settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

How to access the control panel menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Control Panel Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Information Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Tray Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Emulation Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Printing Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Setup Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Color Regist Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Reset Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Quick Print Job Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Confidential Job Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

USB Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Network Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

PCL Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

PS3 Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

ESCP2 Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

FX Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

I239X Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Password Config Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Status and Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Printing and Deleting Reserve Job Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using the Quick Print Job Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using the Confidential Job Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Printing a Status Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Adjusting Color Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Canceling Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Cancel Job button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Reset menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Chapter 9 Installing Options

Optional Paper Cassette Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Handling precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Installing the optional paper cassette unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Removing the optional paper cassette unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Duplex Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

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Installing the Duplex Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Removing the Duplex Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Memory Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Removing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Chapter 10 Replacing Consumable Products

Replacement Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Imaging Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Handling precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Replacing an imaging cartridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Fuser Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Handling precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Replacing the fuser unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Transfer Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Handling precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Replacing the transfer unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Chapter 11 Cleaning and Transporting the Printer

Cleaning the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Cleaning the pickup roller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Transporting the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Finding a place for the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

For long distances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

For short distances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Chapter 12 Troubleshooting

Clearing Jammed Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Precautions for clearing jammed paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Paper Jam MP C1 A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Paper Jam C1 A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Paper Jam C2 C1 A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Paper Jam A B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Paper Jam A D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Printing a Status Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Operational Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

The Ready light does not turn on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

The printer does not print (Ready light off). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

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The Ready light is on but nothing prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

The optional product is not available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

The remaining service lives of the imaging cartridges are not updated

(For Windows users only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Printout Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

The font cannot be printed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Printout is garbled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

The printout position is not correct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Misalignment of colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Graphics do not print correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Transparencies are output blank from the MP tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Color Printing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Cannot print in color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

The printout color differs when printed from different printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

The color looks different from what you see on the computer screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Print Quality Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

The background is dark or dirty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

White dots appear in the printout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Print quality or tone is uneven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Half-tone images print unevenly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Toner smudges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Areas are missing in the printed image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Completely blank pages are output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

The printed image is light or faint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

The non-printed side of the page is dirty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Memory Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Print quality decreased . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Insufficient memory for current task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Insufficient memory to print all copies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Paper Handling Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Paper does not feed properly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Problems Using Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Paper does not feed from the optional paper cassette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Feed jam when using the optional paper cassette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

An installed option cannot be used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Correcting USB Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

USB connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Windows operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Printer software installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Status and Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Canceling Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Printing in the PostScript 3 Mode Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

The printer does not print correctly in the PostScript mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

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The printer does not print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

The printer driver or printer that you need to use does not appear in the Printer Setup

Utility (Mac OS 10.3.x and 10.4.x) or Print Center (Mac OS 10.2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

The font on the printout is different from that on the screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

The printer fonts cannot be installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

The edges of texts and/or images are not smooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

The printer does not print normally via the USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

The printer does not print normally via the network interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

An undefined error occurs (Macintosh only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Printing in the PCL6/5 Mode Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

The printer does not print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

The printer does not print correctly in the PCL mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

The font on the printout is different from that on the screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

The edges of texts and/or images are not smooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

The Custom button is grayed out and the custom paper size cannot be created

(Windows Vista/Vista x64 only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

The items in the Tray tab/Printer tab are grayed out and these items cannot be changed

(Windows Vista/Vista x64 only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Appendix A Customer Support

Contacting Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Before Contacting Epson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Help for Users in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Help for Users in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Help for Users in Singapore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Help for Users in Thailand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Help for Users in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Help for Users in Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Help for Users in Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Help for Users in Malaysia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Help for Users in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Help for Users in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Appendix B Technical Specifications

Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Available paper types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Paper that should not be used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Printable area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

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Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Mechanical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Standard and approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

USB interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Ethernet interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Options and Consumable Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Optional paper cassette unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Duplex Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Memory modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Imaging cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Fuser unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Transfer unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

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Safety Instructions

Safety

Warnings, Cautions, and Notes

Warnings

must be followed carefully to avoid bodily injury.

Cautions

must be observed to avoid damage to your equipment.

Notes

contain important information and useful tips on the operation of your printer.

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Safety precautions

Be sure to follow the precautions carefully to ensure safe, efficient operation:

❏ Because the printer weighs approximately 28 kg (61.7 lb) with consumable products installed,

one person should not lift or carry it. Two people should carry the printer, lifting it by the correct positions as shown below.

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❏ Be careful not to touch the fuser, which is marked CAUTION HIGH TEMPERATURE, or the

surrounding areas. If the printer has been in use, the fuser and the surrounding areas may be very hot. If you must touch one of these areas, wait 30 minutes to allow the heat to subside before doing so.

1. CAUTION HIGH TEMPERATURE

2. Do not insert your hand deep into the fuser unit.

❏ Do not insert your hand deep into the fuser unit as some components are sharp and may cause

injury.

❏ Avoid touching the components inside the printer unless instructed to do so in this guide.

❏ Never force the printer’s components into place. Although the printer is designed to be sturdy,

rough handling can damage it.

❏ When handling an imaging cartridge, always place it on a clean, smooth surface.

❏ Do not attempt to modify an imaging cartridge or take it apart. It cannot be refilled.

❏ Do not touch the toner. Keep the toner away from your eyes.

❏ Do not dispose of used imaging cartridge or transfer unit in fire, as they can explode and cause

injury. Dispose of them according to local regulations.

❏ If toner is spilled, use a broom and dustpan or a damp cloth with soap and water to clean it up.

Because the fine particles can cause a fire or explosion if they come into contact with a spark, do not use a vacuum cleaner.

❏ Wait at least one hour before using an imaging cartridge after moving it from a cool to a warm

environment to prevent damage from condensation.

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❏ When removing the imaging cartridge, do not expose it to sunlight at all and avoid exposing it

to room light for more than five minutes. The imaging cartridge contains a light-sensitive drum that is purple. Exposure to light can damage the drum, causing dark or light areas to appear on the printed page and reducing the service life of the drum. If you need to keep the imaging cartridge out of the printer for long periods, cover it with an opaque cloth.

❏ Be careful not to scratch the surface of the drum. When you remove the imaging cartridge from

the printer, always place it on a clean, smooth surface. Avoid touching the drum, since oil from your skin can permanently damage its surface and affect print quality.

❏ To get the best print quality, do not store the imaging cartridge in an area subject to direct

sunlight, dust, salty air, or corrosive gases (such as ammonia). Avoid locations subject to extreme or rapid changes in temperature or humidity.

❏ Be sure to keep consumable components out of the reach of children.

❏ Do not leave jammed paper inside the printer. This can cause the printer to overheat.

❏ Avoid sharing outlets with other appliances.

❏ Use only an outlet that meets the power requirements of this printer.

Important Safety Instructions

Read all of the following instructions before operating your printer:

When choosing a place and power source for the printer

❏ Place the printer near an electrical outlet where you can easily plug in and unplug the power

cord.

❏ Do not place the printer on an unstable surface.

❏ Do not put your printer where the cord will be stepped on.

❏ Slots and openings in the cabinet and the back or bottom are provided for ventilation. Do not

block or cover them. Do not put the printer on a bed, sofa, rug, or other similar surface or in a built-in installation unless proper ventilation is provided.

❏ All interface connectors for this printer are Non-LPS (non-limited power source).

❏ Connect your printer to an electrical outlet that meets the power requirements of this printer.

Your printer’s power requirements are indicated on a label attached to the printer. If you are not sure of the power supply specifications in your area, contact your local power company or consult your dealer.

❏ If you are unable to insert the AC plug into the electrical outlet, contact an electrician.

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❏ Avoid using outlets that other appliances are plugged into.

❏ Use the type of power source indicated on the label. If you are not sure of the type of power

available, consult your dealer or local power company.

❏ If you are unable to insert the plug into the outlet, contact a qualified electrician.

❏ When connecting this product to a computer or other device with a cable, ensure the correct

orientation of the connectors. Each connector has only one correct orientation. Inserting a connector in the wrong orientation may damage both devices connected by the cable.

❏ If you use an extension cord, make sure that the total of the ampere ratings on the products

plugged into the extension cord does not exceed the extension cord ampere rating.

❏ Unplug this printer from the wall outlet and refer servicing to a qualified service representative

under the following conditions:

A. When the power cord or plug is damaged or frayed.

B. If liquid has been spilled into it.

C. If it has been exposed to rain or water.

D. If it does not operate normally when the operating instructions are followed. Adjust only

those controls that are covered by the operating instructions since improper adjustment of other controls may result in damage and will often require extensive work by a qualified technician to restore the product to normal operation.

E. If it has been dropped or the cabinet has been damaged.

F. If it exhibits a distinct change in performance, indicating a need for service.

When using the printer

❏ The printer weighs about 28 kg (61.7 lb). One person should not attempt to lift or carry the

printer. Two people should carry it.

❏ Follow all warnings and instructions marked on the printer.

❏ Unplug this printer from the wall outlet before cleaning.

❏ Use a well-wrung cloth for cleaning and do not use liquid or aerosol cleaners.

❏ Avoid touching the components inside the printer unless instructed to do so in this guide.

❏ Never force printer components into place. Although the printer is designed to be sturdy,

rough handling can damage it.

❏ Be sure to keep consumables out of the reach of children.

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❏ Do not use printer in a damp environment.

❏ Do not leave jammed paper inside of the printer. This can cause the printer to overheat.

❏ Never push objects of any kind through cabinet slots as they may touch dangerous voltage

points or short out parts that could result in a risk of fire or electric shock.

❏ Never spill liquid of any kind on the printer.

❏ Except as specifically explained in the printer’s documentation, do not attempt to service this

product yourself.

❏ Adjust only those controls that are covered by the operating instructions. Improper adjustment

of other controls may result in damage and may require repair by a qualified service representative.

Safety Information

Power cord

Caution:

Be sure the AC power cord meets the relevant local safety standards. Use only the power cord that comes with this product. Use of the another cord may result in fire or electric shock. This product’s power cord is for use with this product only. Use with other equipment may result in fire or electric shock.

Laser safety labels

Warning:

The performance of procedures and adjustments other than those specified in the printer’s documentation may result in hazardous radiation exposure. Your printer is a Class 1 laser product as defined in the IEC60825 specifications. The label shown is attached to the back of the printer in countries where required.

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Internal laser radiation

Max. Average Radiation Power: 5 mW at laser aperture

Wavelength: 770 to 800 nm

This is a Class III b Laser Diode Assembly that has an invisible laser beam. The printer head unit is NOT A SERVICE ITEM, therefore, the printer head unit should not be opened under any circumstances. An additional laser warning label is affixed to the inside of the printer.

Ozone safety

Ozone emission

Ozone gas is generated by laser printers as a by-product of the printing process. Ozone is produced only when the printer is printing.

Ozone exposure limit

The recommended exposure limit for ozone is 0.1 parts per million (ppm) expressed as an average time-weighted concentration over an eight (8) hour period. The Epson laser printer generates less than 0.1 ppm for eight (8) hours of continuous printing.

Minimize the risk

To minimize the risk of exposure to ozone, you should avoid the following conditions:

❏ Use of multiple laser printers in a confined area

❏ Operation in conditions of extremely low humidity

❏ Poor room ventilation

❏ Long, continuous printing together with any of the above

Printer location

The printer should be located so that the exhaust gases and heat generated are:

❏ Not blown directly into the user’s face

❏ Vented directly out of the building whenever possible

Power On/Off Cautions

Do not turn off the printer:

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❏ After turning on the printer, wait until Ready appears on the LCD panel.

❏ While the Ready light is flashing.

❏ While the Data light is on or flashing.

❏ While printing.

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Chapter 1

Getting to Know Your Printer

Where to Find Information

Setup Guide

Provides you with information on assembling the printer and installing the printer software.

User’s Guide (this manual)

Provides you with detailed information on the printer’s functions, optional products, maintenance, troubleshooting, and technical specifications.

Network Guide

Provides network administrators with information on both the printer driver and network settings.You need to install this guide from the Network Utilities CD-ROM* to your computer’s hard disk to be able to refer to it.

* The Network Utilities CD-ROM may not be included with the product in some countries or regions. In this case, you can install the Network Guide from the Software CD-ROM.

Paper Jam Guide

Provides you with solutions for paper jam problems about your printer you may need to refer to on a regular basis. We recommend printing this guide and keeping it near the printer.

Font Guide

Provides you with information on fonts used on the printer. You need to copy this guide, or you can open it directly from following directory on the software CD-ROM. For Windows: /COMMON/MANUAL/ENG/FNTG For Macintosh: MANUAL:ENG:FNTG

Online Help for printer software

Click Help for detailed information and instructions on the printer software that controls your printer. Online help is automatically installed when you install the printer software.

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Printer Parts

Front view

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a. front cover (cover A) b. control panel c. output tray d. latch on front cover (cover A) e. MP tray (Multi-Purpose tray) f. standard lower paper cassette

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Rear view

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a. power switch b. stopper c. controller option expanded aperture plate d. interface cover e. AC inlet f. Ethernet interface connector g. USB interface connector

* Do not open or remove this cover.

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Inside the printer

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a. fuser unit b. paper guide c. transfer unit d. imaging cartridges

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Control panel

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a. LCD panel Displays printer status messages and control panel menu settings.

Back button

Up button

Enter button

Down button

Use these buttons to access the control panel menus, where you can make printer settings and check the status of consumable products. For instructions on how to use these buttons, see “Using the Control Panel Menus” on page 146.

f. Ready light (Green) On when the printer is ready, indicating that the printer is ready to

receive and print data. Off when the printer is not ready.

g. Error light (Red) On or flashes when an error has occurred.

h. Start/Stop button When the printer is printing, pressing this button stops the

printing. When the error light is flashing, pressing this button clears the error and switches the printer to ready status.

i. Data light (Yellow) On when print data is stored in the print buffer (the section of

printer memory reserved for receiving data) but not yet printed. Flashes when the printer is processing data. Off when no data remains in the print buffer.

j. Cancel Job button Press once to cancel the current print job. Press and hold for more

than two seconds to delete all jobs from the printer memory.

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Options and Consumable Products

Options

You can add to your printer’s capabilities by installing any of the following options.

❏ 550-sheet Paper Cassette Unit (C12C802291)

This unit increases paper feeding capacity up to 550 sheets of paper.

❏ Duplex Unit (C12C802301)

This unit allows for automatic printing on both sides of paper.

❏ Memory Module

This option expands the printer’s memory by allowing you to print complex and graphics-intensive documents. The printer’s RAM can be increased up to 640 MB by adding one additional 512 MB RAM DIMM.

Note:

Make sure that the DIMM you purchase is compatible with EPSON products. For details, contact the store where you purchased this printer or an EPSON qualified service representative.

Consumable products

The life of the following consumable products is monitored by the printer. The printer lets you know when replacements are needed.

Product name Product code

High Capacity Imaging Cartridge (Yellow) 1158

High Capacity Imaging Cartridge (Magenta) 1159

High Capacity Imaging Cartridge (Cyan) 1160

High Capacity Imaging Cartridge (Black) 1161

Standard Capacity Imaging Cartridge (Yellow) 1162

Standard Capacity Imaging Cartridge (Magenta) 1163

Standard Capacity Imaging Cartridge (Cyan) 1164

Standard Capacity Imaging Cartridge (Black) 1165

Transfer Unit 3024

Fuser Unit (110-120 V) 3026

Fuser Unit (220-240 V) 3025

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Chapter 2

Printer Features and Various Printing Options

Printer Features

The printer comes with a full set of features that contributes to ease of use and consistent, high-quality output. The main features are described below.

High-speed tandem printing engine

Your printer’s state-of-the-art tandem engine features 400 MHz image processing and single-pass technology that delivers 20 ppm (pages per minute) at 4800 RIT* color printing and 25 ppm black and white printing on A4 paper.

* Epson AcuLaser Resolution Improvement Technology

Pre-defined color settings in the printer driver

The printer driver offers many pre-defined settings for color printing, allowing you to optimize print quality for various types of color documents.

For Windows, see “Making the print quality settings” on page 50 for more information. For Macintosh, see “Making the print quality settings” on page 104 for more information.

Toner save mode

To reduce the amount of toner used in printing documents, you can print rough drafts using the Toner Save mode.

Resolution Improvement Technology and Enhanced MicroGray technology

Resolution Improvement Technology (RITech) is an original Epson printer technology that works by smoothing out the jagged edges of diagonal and curved lines in both text and graphics. Enhanced MicroGray improves the halftone quality of graphics.

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Wide variety of fonts

The printer comes with a selection of 84 scalable fonts, and 7 bitmap fonts in ESC/Page mode to provide you with the fonts you need to create professional-looking documents.

Adobe PostScript 3 Mode

The printer’s Adobe PostScript 3 Mode provides you with the ability to print documents formatted for PostScript printers. Seventeen scalable fonts are included. IES (Intelligent Emulation Switch) and SPL (Shared Printer Language) support allow the printer to switch between the PostScript mode and other emulations as print data is received at the printer. The PostScript 3 Mode enables you to print PDF formatted files directly, which are transferred via network interface.

PCL Emulation Mode

The PCL Emulation mode provides you with the ability to print documents in the PCL6/5c printing language with this printer.

Various Printing Options

This printer provides you with a variety of different printing options. You can print in various formats, or can print using many different types of paper.

The following explains the procedure for each type of printing. Choose the appropriate one for your printing.

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Double-sided printing

“Duplex printing” on page 55 (Windows)

“Duplex printing” on page 118 (Macintosh)

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Lets you print on both sides of the paper.

Fit to page printing

“Resizing printouts” on page 62 (Windows)

“Resizing printouts” on page 108 (Macintosh)

Lets you automatically enlarge or reduce the size of your document to fit the paper size you selected.

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Pages per sheet printing

“Modifying the print layout” on page 60 (Windows)

“Modifying the print layout” on page 109 (Macintosh)

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Lets you print two or four pages on a single sheet.

Watermark printing

“Using a watermark” on page 63 (Windows)

“Using a watermark” on page 110 (Macintosh)

Lets you print text or an image as a watermark on your printout. For example, you can put “Confidential” on an important document.

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Header/Footer printing

“Using headers and footers” on page 66 (Windows)

“Using headers and footers” on page 117 (Macintosh)

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Lets you print a header and footer on the top or bottom of the paper.

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Overlay printing

“Using an overlay” on page 67 (Windows)

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Lets you prepare standard forms or template on your printout that you can use as overlays when printing other documents.

Note:

The Overlay printing function is not available in the PostScript 3 mode.

Using the Reserve Job function

“Memory Module” on page 196

“Using the Reserve Job Function” on page 72 (Windows)

“Using the Reserve Job Function” on page 121 (Macintosh)

Lets you print jobs that you stored in the printer’s memory later directly from the printer’s control panel.

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Web-Page Printing

EPSON Web-To-Page lets you make Web pages fit to your paper size when printing. You can also see a preview before printing.

Note:

❏ This software is for Windows only.

❏ Install EPSON Web-To-Page from the printer software CD-ROM to use this function.

Accessing EPSON Web-To-Page

After you install EPSON Web-To-Page, the menu bar is displayed on the Microsoft Internet Explorer Toolbar. If it does not appear, select Toolbars from the View menu of Internet Explorer, and then select EPSON Web-To-Page.

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Chapter 3

Paper Handling

Paper Sources

This section describes the combinations of paper sources and paper types that you can use.

MP tray

Paper Type Paper Size Capacity

Plain paper Weight: 60 to 80 g/m² A4, A5, B5, Letter (LT),

Half-Letter (HLT), Executive (EXE), Government Legal (GLG), Legal (LGL), Government Letter (GLT)

Custom-size paper:

76.2 × 98.4 mm minimum 220 × 355.6 mm maximum

Semi-Thick paper Weight: 81 to 105 g/m²

Envelopes Weight: 75 to 105 g/m² DL, ISO-B5, C5 Up to 15 mm thick stack

Labels A4, Letter (LT) Up to 15 mm thick stack

Thick paper Weight: 106 to 163 g/m² A4, A5, B5, Letter (LT),

A4, A5, B5, Letter (LT), Half-Letter (HLT), Executive (EXE), Government Legal (GLG), Legal (LGL), Government Letter (GLT)

Custom-size paper:

76.2 × 98.4 mm minimum 220 × 355.6 mm maximum

Half-Letter (HLT), Executive (EXE), Government Letter (GLT)

Custom-size paper:

76.2 × 98.4 mm minimum 220 × 355.6 mm maximum

Up to 150 sheets (Total thick stack: up to 15 mm)

Up to 15 mm thick stack

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Extra thick paper Weight: 164 to 216 g/m²

EPSON Color Laser Paper Weight: 82 g/m²

EPSON Color Laser Transparencies A4, Letter (LT) Up to 75 sheets

EPSON Color Laser Coated Paper Weight: 103 g/m²

A4, A5, B5, Letter (LT), Half-Letter (HLT), Executive (EXE), Government Letter (GLT)

Custom-size paper:

76.2 × 98.4 mm minimum 220 × 355.6 mm maximum

A4 Up to 150 sheets

A4 Up to 15 mm thick stack

Standard lower paper cassette

Paper Type Paper Size Capacity

Plain paper Weight: 60 to 105 g/m² A4, A5, B5, Letter (LT),

Executive (EXE), Legal (LGL), Government Legal (GLG)

Up to 15 mm thick stack

(Total thick stack: up to 15 mm)

Up to 250 sheets (Total thick stack: up to 27.6 mm)

EPSON Color Laser Paper Weight: 82 g/m²

550-sheet Paper Cassette Unit

Paper Type Paper Size Capacity

Plain paper Weight: 60 to 105 g/m² A4, A5, B5, Letter (LT),

Executive (EXE), Legal (LGL), Government Legal (GLG)

EPSON Color Laser Paper Weight: 82 g/m²

Up to 550 sheets (Total thick stack: up to 59.4 mm)

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Selecting a paper source

You can set the printer to select a paper source containing the appropriate size of paper automatically, or specify a paper source manually, using the printer driver or the printer’s control panel. To access the printer driver, for Windows, see “Accessing the printer driver” on page 49, or for Macintosh, see “Accessing the printer driver” on page 103. And to use the printer’s control panel, see “Using the Control Panel Menus” on page 146.

Using the printer driver

For Windows:

Access the printer driver, click the Basic Settings tab, and select Auto Selection as the paper source. Then click OK.

Note:

To specify a paper source manually, specify the paper source you want to use in the Paper Source list.

For Macintosh:

Access the printer driver, select Printer Settings from the drop-down list and click the Basic Settings tab. Then, select Auto Selection from the Paper Source list and click Print.

Note:

To specify a paper source manually, specify the paper source you want to use in the Paper Source list.

Using the control panel

Access the control panel’s Setup Menu, and select Paper Source, then select Auto.

Note:

To specify a paper source manually, specify the paper source you want to use in the Paper Source menu.

Paper source priority when Auto is selected

The printer will search for a paper source containing the specified paper size in the following order.

Standard configuration:

MP tray Cassette 1

With 550-sheet Paper Cassette Unit installed:

MP tray Cassette 1 Cassette 2

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Note:

❏ If you make paper size settings or paper source settings in your application, these settings may override

the printer driver settings.

❏ If you select an envelope for the printer driver’s Paper Size setting, it can be fed only from the MP tray

regardless of the printer driver’s Paper Source setting.

❏ You can change the priority of the MP tray by using the MP Mode setting in the control panel’s

Setup Menu. For details, see “Setup Menu” on page 153.

Loading Paper

This section describes how to load paper. If you use special media such as transparencies or envelopes, see also “Printing on Special Media” on page 42.

MP tray

Follow the steps below to load paper into the MP tray.

1. Open the MP tray.

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2. Load a stack of the desired paper with the printable surface down, then slide the guides against

the sides of the stack to get a snug fit.

Note:

❏ When loading the paper, insert the short edge first.

❏ Do not load paper that exceeds the maximum stack height.

❏ Straighten the paper before loading it. If curled paper is loaded, it may not feed correctly.

❏ After loading paper, set the MP Tray Size / MP Type settings to match the loaded paper size on the

control panel.

❏ To print on the back side of previously printed paper, use the MP tray. The duplex printing cannot

be used for this purpose.

Standard lower paper cassette and optional paper cassette unit

The paper sizes and types supported by the optional paper cassette unit are the same as the standard lower cassette unit. For more information, see “550-sheet Paper Cassette Unit” on page

35.

The paper-loading procedure is the same for the standard lower cassette and the optional paper cassette unit.

In addition to plain paper, you can also use special media such as EPSON Color Laser Paper in the paper cassettes.

Follow these steps to load paper into the standard and optional paper cassette units. The illustrations show the standard lower cassette.

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1. Pull the paper cassette out until it stops. Then lift up the front of the paper cassette and pull it

out.

2. Pitch the knob and slide the left and right paper guides to accommodate the paper you are

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3. Pinch the knob and slide the guide to the position appropriate for the size of paper you want to

load.

Note:

❏ Load the paper after aligning the edges of the paper carefully.

❏ Do not load paper that exceeds the maximum stack height.

4. To prevent the sheets from sticking together, fan a stack of paper. Then tap the edge on a firm

surface to line it up.

Note:

Straighten the paper before loading it. If curled paper is loaded, it may not feed correctly.

5. Insert the stack into the paper cassette, lining it up with both the front and left sides of the paper

cassette, with the printable surface up.

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6. Slide the paper guides to fit the paper you are loading.

7. Reinsert the paper cassette into the unit.

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Note:

❏ After loading paper, set the Cassette 1 Type / Cassette 2 Type settings on the control panel to

match the loaded paper size and type.

❏ If you have installed and loaded paper into the optional paper cassette unit, set the setting for the

paper cassette that you are using.

Output tray

The output tray is located on the top of the printer. Since printouts are output face-down, this tray is also referred to as the face-down tray. Raise the stopper to prevent your printouts from slipping off the printer.

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Note:

This tray can hold up to 250 sheets.

Printing on Special Media

You can print on special media which include Epson paper such as the following.

Note:

Since the quality of any particular brand or type of media may be changed by the manufacturer at any time, Epson cannot guarantee the quality of any type of media. Always test samples of media stock before purchasing large quantities or printing large jobs.

EPSON Color Laser Paper

When loading EPSON Color Laser Paper, you should make paper settings as shown below:

❏ Make settings on the Basic Settings in the printer driver.

Paper Size: A4

Paper Source: MP Tray (up to 150 sheets or up to 15 mm thick stack)

Cassette 1 (up to 250 sheets or up to 27.6 mm thick stack) Cassette 2 (up to 550 sheets or up to 59.4 mm thick stack)

Paper Type: Semi-thick

Note:

Select Semi-thick (Back) on the Paper Type setting when you print on the back side of paper just after printing on the front side.

❏ You can also make these settings on the Tray Menu in the control panel. See “Tray Menu” on

page 150.

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EPSON Color Laser Transparencies

Epson recommends the use of EPSON Color Laser Transparencies.

Note:

❏ Duplex printing is not available for transparencies.

❏ When printing on transparencies, you cannot set the print quality to Maximum.

Transparencies can be loaded into the MP tray only. When using transparencies, you should make paper settings as shown below:

❏ Make settings on the Basic Settings in the printer driver.

Paper Size: A4 or LT

Paper Source: MP Tray (up to 75 sheets or 15 mm thick stack)

Paper Type: Transparency

❏ You can also make these settings on the Tray Menu in the control panel. See “Tray Menu” on

page 150.

❏ When the Paper Type setting in the printer driver is set to Transparency, do not load any other

type of paper except transparencies.

Please note the following when handling this media:

❏ Hold each sheet by its edges, as oil from your fingers may transfer to the surface and damage

the printable surface of the sheet. The Epson logo appears on the printable side.

❏ When loading transparencies in the MP tray, insert the short edge first as shown below.

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❏ If transparencies are loaded incorrectly, the message Check Transparency appears on the LCD

panel. To clear the error, see “Transparencies are output blank from the MP tray” on page 240.

Caution:

Sheets that have just been printed on may be hot.

EPSON Color Laser Coated Paper

Printing on EPSON Color Laser Coated Paper produces glossier and higher quality printouts. When loading EPSON Color Laser Coated Paper, you should make paper settings as shown below:

❏ Make settings on the Basic Settings in the printer driver.

Paper Size: A4

Paper Source: MP Tray (up to 15 mm thick stack)

Paper Type: Coated

Note:

❏ Duplex printing is not available for EPSON Color Laser Coated Paper.

❏ When printing on EPSON Color Laser Coated Paper, you cannot set the print quality to

Maximum.

❏ You can also make these settings on the Tray Menu in the control panel. See “Tray Menu” on

page 150.

❏ EPSON Color Laser Coated Paper may not be fed properly, depending on the temperature and

humidity condition, because it is coated with the special materials. If this happens, load it one sheet at a time from the MP tray.

Envelopes

The print quality of envelopes may be irregular because different parts of an envelope have different thicknesses. Print one or two envelopes to check the print quality.

Caution:

Do not use window envelopes. The plastic on most window envelopes will melt when it comes into contact with the fuser.

Note:

❏ Depending on the quality of envelopes, the printing environment, or the printing procedure, envelopes

might be wrinkled. Make a trial print run before you print on a lot of envelopes.

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❏ Duplex printing is not available for envelopes.

❏ When printing on envelopes, you cannot set the print quality to Maximum.

When loading envelopes, you should make paper settings as shown below:

❏ Make settings on the Basic Settings in the printer driver.

Paper Size: IB5, DL, or C5

Paper Source: MP Tray (up to 15 mm thick stack)

Note:

Depending on the condition of the paper, the printer may fail to feed paper properly when the maximum amount of paper is loaded. If this happens, reduce the amount of paper loaded in the tray.

❏ You can also make these settings on the Tray Menu in the control panel. See “Tray Menu” on

page 150.

Please note the following when handling this media.

❏ When printing on C5 or ISO B5 size envelopes, load them with the short edge first. When

printing on DL size envelopes, load them with the long edge first.

a b

a. C5 or ISO B5 b. DL

❏ Do not use an envelope that has glue or tape on it.

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Labels

You can load up to 15 mm thickness of labels into the MP tray at a time. However, you may need to feed some labels one sheet at a time, or load them manually.

Note:

❏ Duplex printing is not available for labels.

❏ When printing on labels, you cannot set the print quality to Maximum.

❏ Depending on the quality of labels, the printing environment, or the printing procedure, labels might be

wrinkled. Make a trial print run before you print on a lot of labels.

When loading labels, you should make paper settings as shown below:

❏ Make settings on the Basic Settings in the printer driver.

Paper Size: A4 or LT

Paper Source: MP Tray (up to 15 mm thick stack)

Paper Type: Labels

❏ You can also make these settings on the Tray Menu in the control panel. See “Tray Menu” on

page 150.

Note:

❏ You should only use labels designed for laser printers or plain-paper copiers.

❏ To prevent the label adhesive from coming into contact with printer parts, always use labels that

completely cover the backing sheet, with no gaps between the individual labels.

❏ Press a sheet of paper on top of each sheet of labels. If the paper sticks, do not use those labels in your

printer.

❏ You may have to make the setting Thick* for Paper Type in the Setup Menu.

* When using especially thick labels, set Paper Type to ExtraThk.

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Thick paper and extra thick paper

You can load thick paper (106 to 163 g/m²) or extra thick paper (164 to 216 g/m²) into the MP tray.

When loading thick or extra thick paper, you should make paper settings as shown below:

❏ Duplex printing is not available for extra thick paper.

❏ Make settings on the Basic Settings in the printer driver.

Paper Size: A4, A5, B5, LT, HLT, EXE, GLT

Paper Source: MP Tray (up to 15 mm thick stack)

Paper Type: Thick, Thick (Back), or Extra Thick

❏ You can also make these settings on the Tray Menu in the control panel. See “Tray Menu” on

page 150.

Loading a custom paper size

You can load non-standard size paper (76.2 × 98.4 mm to 220 × 355.6 mm) into the MP tray.

Note:

Depending on the quality of the non-standard size paper, the printing environment, or the printing procedure, the paper might skew. Make a trial print run before you print on a lot of non-standard size paper.

When loading a custom paper size, you should make paper settings as shown below:

❏ Make settings on the Basic Settings in the printer driver.

Paper Size: User Defined Size

Paper Source: MP Tray (up to 15 mm thick stack)

Paper Type: Plain, Semi-Thick, Thick or Extra Thick

❏ You can also make these settings on the Tray Menu in the control panel. See “Tray Menu” on

page 150.

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Note:

❏ For Windows, access the printer driver, then select User Defined Size from the Paper Size list on

the Basic Settings tab. In the User Defined Paper Size dialog box, adjust the Paper Width, Paper Length, and Unit settings to match your custom paper. Then click OK and your custom paper size will be saved.

❏ The saved paper sizes can only be used with the printer driver you saved them to. Even if multiple

printer names are set for a printer driver, the settings can be available only for the printer name in which you saved the settings.

❏ When sharing the printer on a network, you cannot create User defined size at the client.

❏ For Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3, follow the steps below to save your custom paper size.

1. Open the Page Setup dialog box.

2. Select Custom Page Size from the Settings drop-down list.

3. Click New.

4. Enter the setting’s name and specify the paper size, and then click OK.

5. Click Save.

❏ For Mac OS X 10.4, follow the steps bellow to save your custom paper size.

1. Open the Page Setup dialog box.

2. Select Manage Custom Sizes from the Page Size drop-down list.

3. Click .

4. Double-click Untitled and enter the setting’s name.

5. Specify the paper size and click OK.

❏ If you cannot use the printer driver as explained above, make this setting at the printer by

accessing the control panel’s Printing Menu and selecting CTM (custom) as the Page Size setting.

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Chapter 4

Using the Printer Software with Windows

About the Printer Software

The printer driver lets you choose from a wide variety of settings to get the best results from your printer. EPSON Status Monitor lets you check the status of your printer. See “Monitoring Your Printer Using EPSON Status Monitor” on page 77 for more information.

Note for Windows Vista users:

Do not press the power button or put your computer to standby or hibernate mode manually during printing.

Accessing the printer driver

You can access the printer driver directly from any application programs, from your Windows operating system.

The printer settings made from many Windows applications override the setting made when the printer driver is accessed from the operating system, so you should access the printer driver from your application to make sure that you get the result you want.

Note:

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

From the application

To access the printer driver, click the Print or Page Setup from the File menu. You also need to click Setup, Options, Properties, or a combination of these buttons.

Windows Vista users

To access the printer driver, click Start, click Control Panel, then click Printers.

Windows XP or Server 2003 users

To access the printer driver, click Start, click Printers and Faxes, then click Printers. Right-click your printer’s icon, then click Printing Preferences.

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Windows 2000 users

To access the printer driver, click Start, point to Settings, then click Printers. Right-click your printer’s icon, then click Printing Preferences.

Making Changes to Printer Settings

Making the print quality settings

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 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.

Note:

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

1. Click the Basic Settings tab.

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3. Click OK to apply the settings.

The printer driver provides the following quality modes.

Color

Draft, Text, Text&Image, Web, Photo

Monochrome

Draft, Text&Image, Photo

Note:

If printing is unsuccessful or a memory-related error message appears, selecting a different print quality may allow printing to proceed.

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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.

1. Click the Basic Settings tab.

2. Select Advanced. You will find the predefined settings in the list below of Automatic.

Note:

This screen may vary depending on your operating system version.

3. 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 Print Quality, 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.

Note:

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

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Customizing print settings

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

Follow the steps below to customize your print settings.

1. Click the Basic Settings tab.

2. Click Advanced, then click More Settings.

3. Choose Color or Black as the Color setting, then choose desired printing resolution with the

Print Quality slider bar.

Note:

❏ This screen may vary depending on your operating system version.

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

❏ The Web Smoothing check box is not available when PhotoEnhance is selected. Note 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.

❏ The RITech function is not available when you set the printing quality to Maximum.

4. Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Basic Settings tab.

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Saving your settings

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.

Note:

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

❏ The saved custom settings can only be used with the printer driver you saved them to. Even if multiple

printer names are set for a printer driver, the settings can be available only for the printer name in which you saved the settings.

❏ To delete a custom setting, click Advanced, click Save Settings on the Basic Settings tab, select

the setting in the Custom Settings dialog box, then click Delete.

❏ You cannot delete predefined settings.

❏ When sharing the printer on a network, the Save Settings is grayed out and you cannot create a

custom setting at the client.

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.

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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.

Printing with the Duplex Unit (models with Duplex Unit only)

Follow the steps below to print with the Duplex Unit.

1. Click the Basic Settings tab.

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

Note:

The Duplex check box appears only when the Duplex Unit is recognized by the printer driver. If you selected Update the Printer Option Automatically on the Optional Settings tab, confirm that Duplex Print Unit is set to Installed. If you selected Update the Printer Option Manually on the Optional Settings tab, click the Settings button and select the Duplex Print Unit check box.

3. Click Duplex Settings to open the Duplex Settings dialog box.

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4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Basic Settings tab.

Doing duplex printing manually (models without Duplex Unit only)

1. Click the Basic Settings tab.

2. Make sure that the Manual Feed check box is off.

Note:

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

❏ The Skip Blank Page function is not available when using the manual duplex function.

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3. Select the Duplex (Manual) check box, then select Left, Top, or Right as the binding position.

4. Click Duplex Settings to open the Duplex Settings dialog box.

5. 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.

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6. 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.

7. Click OK.

8. Execute the print job.

Note:

The alert screen appears on the computer. Click the OK button on the screen.

9. After printing on one side, reload the paper into the MP tray with the printed surface face-up

as shown below. Then, press the N 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.

❏ Straighten the paper before loading it. If curled paper is loaded, it may not feed correctly.

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Displaying information about consumables with the printer driver

The remaining service lives of the imaging cartridges are displayed on the Basic Settings tab when EPSON Status Monitor is installed. The Order Online button is also available. You can set the interval at which the information about the consumables is updated on the Consumables Info Settings dialog box that appears by clicking the Consumables Info Settings button on the Optional Settings tab.

Note:

❏ The driver and EPSON Status Monitor use different methods to measure the remaining service lives of

the imaging cartridges. Because of this, the information that is displayed in EPSON Status Monitor and the Basic Settings tab might be different. Use EPSON Status Monitor to get more detailed information.

❏ The country/region and URL for a web site must be specified when installing EPSON Status Monitor to

use the function for ordering consumables online.

❏ If imaging cartridges that are not genuine are used, the level bars and the alert icons that indicate the

service life remaining in each imaging cartridge are not displayed.

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Ordering Consumables

To order consumables online, click the Order Online button on the Basic Settings tab. See “Order Online” on page 88 for details.

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.

1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.

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2. 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.

3. Select the Page Order in which the pages are printed on each sheet.

4. 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 tab.

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5. Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Advanced Layout tab.

Resizing printouts

You can have your document enlarged or reduced during printing.

To automatically resize pages to fit the output paper

1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Click OK to apply the settings.

Resizing pages by a specified percentage

1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.

2. Select the Zoom Options check box.

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3. 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.

4. Click OK to apply the settings.

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

Using a watermark

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.

1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.

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2. 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.

Note:

If you select User Name or Computer Name from the Water Mark drop-down list, the login account name or computer name is printed.

3. Select the color from the Color drop-down list, then adjust the image intensity of the watermark

with the Intensity slider bar.

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4. 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.

5. Select the location on the page where you want to print the watermark from the Location

drop-down list.

6. Adjust the X (horizontal) or Y (vertical) Offset position.

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

8. Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Advanced Layout tab.

Making a new watermark

You can make a new watermark as follows:

1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.

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

Note:

The User Defined Watermarks dialog box also appears by clicking New/Delete in the Watermark dialog box.

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

Note:

This screen appears when you select Text.

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4. 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.

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

6. Click OK to apply the new watermark settings.

Note:

❏ You can register up to 10 watermarks.

❏ The saved watermarks can only be used with the printer driver you saved them to. Even if multiple

printer names are set for a printer driver, the settings can be available only for the printer name in which you saved the settings.

❏ When sharing the printer on a network, you cannot create an user defined watermark at the client.

Using headers and footers

You can print a header or footer on the top or bottom of a page. The items that can be printed as a header or footer include user name, computer name, date, date/time, or collate number.

1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.

2. Select the Header/Footer check box, then click Header/Footer Settings.

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3. Select the items to be printed for the header and the footer from the drop-down list.

Note:

❏ If you select User Name or Computer Name from the drop-down list, the login account name or

computer name is printed.

❏ If you select Collate Number from the drop-down list, the number of copies is printed.

4. Click OK to apply the settings and return to the Advanced Layout tab.

Using an overlay

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.

Note:

The overlay function is available only when High Quality (Printer) is selected for the Printing Mode in the Extended Settings dialog box from the Optional Settings tab.

Creating an overlay

Follow the steps below to create and save a form overlay file.

1. Open your application and create the file that you want to use as an overlay.

2. 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.

3. Click the Advanced Layout tab.

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

box appears.

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

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

appears.

Note:

If the Assign to Paper Source check box is selected, the form name is displayed in the Paper Source drop-down list on the Basic Settings tab.

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

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

background of the document.

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

10. Click OK in the Form Settings dialog box.

11. Click OK in the Overlay Settings dialog box.

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

overlay data is created.

Printing with an overlay

Follow the steps below to print a document with overlay data.

1. Open the file to print with overlay data.

2. 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.

3. Click the Advanced Layout tab.

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

dialog box.

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

tab.

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Note:

If the Assign to Paper Source check box is selected, the form name is displayed in the Paper Source drop-down list on the Basic Settings tab. You can also select the form without accessing the dialog box above.

6. Click OK to print the data.

Different printer settings overlay data

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.

1. Re-access the printer driver as described in step 2 in “Creating an overlay” on page 67.

2. Make the printer settings and exit the printer driver.

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

overlay” on page 67.

This setting is available only for Form Name data.

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 tab.

Note:

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

Making Optional Settings

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

1. Access the printer driver.

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

3. Click Settings. The Optional Settings dialog box appears.

4. Make settings for each installed option, then click OK.

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Printing a status sheet

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

Follow the steps below to print a status sheet.

1. Access the printer driver.

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

status sheet.

Using the Reserve Job Function

The Reserve Job function allows you to store print jobs on the printer’s memory and to print them later directly from the printer’s control panel. Follow the instructions in this section to use the Reserve Job function.

Note:

You need to keep sufficient RAM disk capacity in order to use the Reserve Job function. To enable RAM disk, you have to set the RAM Disk setting on the control panel to Normal or Maximum. We recommend installing an optional memory to use this function. For instructions about increasing your printer’s memory, see “Installing a memory module” on page 196. After installed the memory module, you have to update the information about options. See “Making Optional Settings” on page 71.

The table below gives an overview of the Reserve Job options. Each option is described in detail later in this section.

Reserve Job Option Description

Re-Print Job Lets you print the job now and store it for later reprinting.

Verify Job Lets you print one copy now to verify the content before printing multiple

copies.

Confidential Job Lets you apply a password to the print job and save it for later printing.

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Jobs stored on the printer’s memory are handled differently depending on the Reserve Job option. Refer to the tables below for details.

Reserve Job Option Maximum Number of

Jobs

Re-Print Job + Verify Job

Confidential Job 64 Delete old jobs manually Delete old jobs manually

Reserve Job Option After Printing After Turning Off Printer or Using Reset All

Re-Print Job data remains in the

Verify Job

Confidential Job data is cleared Data is cleared

64 (combined total) Oldest job automatically

printer’s memory

When Maximum is Exceeded

replaced with newest

Data is cleared

When RAM Disk is Full

Oldest job automatically replaced with newest

Re-Print Job

The Re-Print Job option allows you to store the job you are currently printing so that you can reprint it later directly from the control panel.

Follow the steps below to use the Re-Print Job option.

1. Click the Basic Settings tab.

2. Select the Collate in Printer check box. Specify the number of copies to be printed, and make

other printer driver settings as appropriate for your document.

3. Click the Optional Settings tab, then click Reserve Job Settings. The Reserve Job Settings

dialog box appears.

Note:

The Reserve Job Settings button is available only when the RAM Disk is recognized by the printer driver. If you selected Update the Printer Option Automatically on the Optional Settings tab, confirm that RAM Disk is set to Installed. If you selected Update the Printer Option Manually on the Optional Settings tab, click the Settings button and select the RAM Disk check box.

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4. Select the Reserve Job On check box, then select Re-Print Job.

5. Enter a user name and job name in the corresponding text boxes.

Note:

❏ The OK button becomes available after both the user name and job name have been entered.

❏ If you want to create a thumbnail of the first page of a job, select the Create a thumbnail check box.

Thumbnails can be accessed by entering http:// followed by the internal print server’s IP address in a Web browser.

6. Click OK. The printer prints your document, and stores the print job on the printer’s memory.

To reprint or delete this data using the printer’s control panel, see “Printing and Deleting Reserve Job Data” on page 182 for instructions.

Verify Job

The Verify Job option allows you to print one copy in order to verify the content before printing multiple copies.

Follow the steps below to use the Verify Job option.

1. Click the Basic Settings tab.

2. Select the Collate in Printer check box. Specify the number of copies to be printed, and make

other printer driver settings as appropriate for your document.

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3. Click the Optional Settings tab, then click Reserve Job Settings. The Reserve Job Settings

dialog box appears.

Note:

4. Select the Reserve Job On check box, then select Verify Job.

5. Enter a user name and job name in the corresponding text boxes.

Note:

❏ The OK button becomes available after both the user name and job name have been entered.

❏ If you want to create a thumbnail of the first page of a job, select the Create a thumbnail check box.

Thumbnails can be accessed by entering http:// followed by the internal print server’s IP address in a Web browser.

6. Click OK. The printer prints one copy of your document, and stores the print data with

information on the number of remaining copies on the printer’s memory.

After you have confirmed the printout, you can print the remaining copies or delete this data using the printer’s control panel. See “Printing and Deleting Reserve Job Data” on page 182 for instructions.

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Confidential Job

The Confidential Job option allows you to apply passwords to print jobs stored on the printer’s memory.

Follow the steps below to store print data using the Confidential Job option.

1. Make printer driver settings as appropriate for your document.

2. Click the Optional Settings tab, then click Reserve Job Settings. The Reserve Job Settings

dialog box appears.

Note:

3. Select the Reserve Job On check box, then select Confidential Job.

4. Enter a user name and job name in the corresponding text boxes.

5. Set the password for the job by entering a four-digit number in the password text box.

Note:

❏ The OK button becomes available after both the user name and job name have been entered.

❏ Passwords must be four digits.

❏ Only numbers from 1 through 4 can be used for passwords.

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❏ Keep passwords in a safe place. You must enter the correct password when printing a Confidential

Job.

6. Click OK. The printer stores the print job on the printer’s memory.

To print or delete this data using the printer’s control panel, see “Printing and Deleting Reserve Job Data” on page 182.

Monitoring Your Printer Using EPSON Status Monitor

EPSON Status Monitor is a utility program that monitors your printer and gives you information about its current status.

Installing EPSON Status Monitor

1. Make sure that the printer is off and that Windows is running on your computer.

2. Insert the printer software CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.

Note:

If the Epson Installation Program screen does not appear automatically, click Start, then click Computer (for Windows Vista) or click the My Computer icon on the desktop (for Windows XP, 2000 or Server 2003). Right-click the CD-ROM icon, click OPEN in the menu that appears, then double-click EPSetup.exe.

3. If the language selection window appears, select your language.

4. If the option selection window appears, click User Installation.

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5. Click Custom Install.

Note:

See the Network Guide for information on installing EPSON Status Monitor on a network.

6. Click EPSON Status Monitor.

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7. In the dialog box that appears, make sure that your printer’s icon is selected, and click OK.

8. When the software license agreement screen appears, read the statement and then click

Accept.

9. In the dialog box that appears, select your country or region, and the URL for EPSON’s Web

site in that country or region appears. Then click OK.

Note:

❏ In the dialog box, you can set the URL for the site where you can order consumables online. See

“Order Online” on page 88 for details.

❏ Selecting your country or region allows you to change the settings of the URL.

❏ When you click the Cancel button, the Web site’s URL does not appear, but the EPSON Status

Monitor installation continues.

10. When the installation is complete, click OK.

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Accessing EPSON Status Monitor

1. Right-click the tray icon on the taskbar.

2. Select your printer name and then Simple Status. The Simple Status window appears.

Note:

You can also access EPSON Status Monitor by clicking the Simple Status button on the Optional Settings tab on the printer driver.

To find detailed information on EPSON Status Monitor, see “Information on EPSON Status Monitor” on page 81, “Simple Status” on page 81, “Detailed Status” on page 82, “Consumables Information” on page 83, “Job Information” on page 84, “Notice Settings” on page 86, “Order Online” on page 88, and “Tray Icon Settings” on page 89.

Note for Windows Vista users:

EPSON Status Monitor is not available for monitoring Netware printers.

Note for Windows XP users:

EPSON Status Monitor is not available when printing from a Remote Desktop connection.

Note for Netware users:

When monitoring NetWare printers, a Novell Client that corresponds to your operating system must be used. Operation is confirmed for the versions below:

❏ For Windows XP or 2000:

Novell Client 4.91 SP1 for Windows 2000/XP

❏ To monitor a NetWare printer, connect only one print server to each queue. For directions, see the

Network Guide for the printer.

❏ You cannot monitor a NetWare queue printer beyond the IPX router because the setting for IPX hops is

❏ This product supports NetWare printers configured by a queue-based printing system such as Bindery

or NDS. You cannot monitor NDPS (Novell Distributed Print Services) printers.

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Information on EPSON Status Monitor

You can obtain information about EPSON Status Monitor such as product versions or interface versions.

This window appears by right-clicking the tray icon on the taskbar and selecting your printer name and About.

Simple Status

The Simple Status window indicates printer status, errors, and warnings.

This window appears by right-clicking the tray icon on the taskbar, then selecting your printer name, then clicking Simple Status. This window also appears when errors occur according to the Pop-up Notice you select in the Notice Settings dialog box.

If you wish to see more information about the status of your printer, click Details.

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Detailed Status

You can monitor detailed printer status by right-clicking the tray icon on the taskbar, then selecting your printer name, then clicking Detailed Status.

a. Icon/Message: The icon and message show the printer status.

b. Printer image: The image at the upper left shows the printer status graphically.

c. Text box: The text box next to the printer image displays the current status of the printer.

When a problem occurs, the most probable solution is displayed.

d. Close button: Clicking this button closes the dialog box.

Note:

You can see information about jobs or consumables by clicking on the respective tab.

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Consumables Information

You can obtain information on paper sources and consumable products by right-clicking the tray icon on the taskbar, then selecting your printer name, then clicking Consumables Information.

a. Paper: Displays the paper size, the paper type and the approximate amount

of paper remaining in the paper source. Information on the optional paper cassettes are displayed only if these options are installed.

b. Toner: Indicates the remaining service lives of the imaging cartridges. The

toner icon flashes when the imaging cartridge has some error or has neared the end of its service life.

c. Order Online button: Clicking this button enables you to order consumables online. See

“Order Online” on page 88 for details.

d. Close button: Clicking this button closes the dialog box.

Note:

❏ You can see the status of the printer or information about jobs by clicking on the respective tab.

❏ If imaging cartridges that are not genuine are used, the level bars to indicate the service life remaining in

each imaging cartridge is not displayed, and the alert icons do not blink.

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Job Information

You can check job information by right-clicking the tray icon on the taskbar, then selecting your printer name, then clicking Job Information.

a. Job Name: Displays the user’s print job names. Other user’s print jobs are displayed as

--------.

b. Status: Waiting: The print job which is waiting to be printed.

Spooling: The print job which is being spooled on your computer.

Deleting: The print job which is being deleted.

Printing: The print job which is printed currently.

Completed: Displays only your jobs that have finished printing.

Canceled: Displays only your jobs that have been canceled printing.

Held: Job is on hold.

c. User: Displays the user name.

d. Computer: Displays the name of the computer that sent the print job.

e. Job Type: Displays the job type. The jobs are displayed as Verify, Re-Print, and

Confidential respectively. About the Reserve Job function, see “Using the Reserve Job Function” on page 72.

f. Cancel Job button: Selecting a print job and clicking this button cancels the selected print job.

g. Close button Clicking this button closes the dialog box.

h. Print button: Display the dialog box to print the held status job.

i. Refresh button: Clicking this button refreshes the information on this menu.

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j. Display settings button Displays the Display Settings dialog box to select items and the order they are

displayed on the Job Information screen and to select the type of jobs to be displayed.

Note:

You can see the status of the printer or information about consumables by clicking on the respective tab.

Note for Windows XP users:

Shared Windows XP LPR connections and shared Windows XP Standard TCP/IP connections with Windows clients do not support the Job Management function.

The Job Information tab is available when the following connections are used:

Server and Client Environments:

❏ When using the shared Windows 2000, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64 LPR connection with

Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, or 2000 clients.

❏ When using the shared Windows Vista, Vista x64, 2000, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64

Standard TCP/IP connection with Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, or 2000.

❏ When using the shared Windows Vista, Vista x64, 2000, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64

EpsonNet Print TCP/IP connection with Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, or 2000 clients.

Client only Environments:

❏ When using the LPR connection (in Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, 2000, Server 2003, or

Server 2003 x64).

❏ When using the Standard TCP/IP connection (in Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, 2000,

Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64).

❏ When using the EpsonNet Print TCP/IP connection (in Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64,

2000, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64).

Note:

You cannot use this function in the following situations:

❏ When using an optional Ethernet interface card that does not support the Job Management function.

❏ When the NetWare connections do not support the Job Management function.

❏ When the printing jobs from NetWare and NetBEUI are displayed as “Unknown” on the Job

Management menu.

❏ Note that if the user account used to log on to a client is different from the user account used to connect

to the server, the Job Management function is not available.

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Notice Settings

You can make specific monitoring settings by right-clicking the tray icon on the taskbar, then selecting your printer name, then clicking Notice Settings. The Notice Settings dialog box appears.

a. Monitor the printer status check

box:

b. More Settings button: Displays the More Settings dialog box to set how to display the tray

c. Pop-up Notice: Sets the notification to be displayed.

d. Allow monitoring of the shared

printers check box:

e More Settings button: Displays the More Settings dialog box to set how to communicate

f. Display the Order Online window

automatically check box:

g. Display once a day when a

consumable is low check box:

When this check box is selected, EPSON Status Monitor monitors the printer status during a print job is processed.

icon.

When this check box is selected, a shared printer can be monitored by other computers.

If you connect the printer via a server with Windows Point & Print and the server and the client are both Windows XP or later, it communicates with the OS communication function. Therefore you can monitor the printer without selecting this check box.

with the shared printer.

When this check box is selected, the Order Online window appears automatically when a consumable becomes low or reaches end of service life and keeps appearing once a day until the consumable is replaced.

When this radio button is selected, the Order Online window appears automatically once a day when you start printing or display the status by accessing EPSON Status Monitor.

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h. Display only when a consumable

first becomes low check box:

i. More Settings button: Displays the More Settings dialog box in which you can set the URL

j. Monitor Settings button: Displays the Monitor Settings dialog box to set the monitoring

k. Cancel button: Click this button to exit the dialog box without saving the settings.

l. OK button: Click this button to save the settings and to exit the dialog box.

When this radio box is selected, the Order Online window appears automatically only when a consumable first becomes low.

for placing an order appears.

interval.

Note for Windows Vista users:

When Allow monitoring of the shared printers check box is selected, the User Account Control dialog box will appear. Then click Continue to make the settings.

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Order Online

You can order consumables online by right-clicking the tray icon on the taskbar, then selecting your printer name, then clicking Order Online. The Order Online dialog box appears.

Note:

❏ You can also order consumables online by clicking the Order Online button on the EPSON Status

Monitor dialog box. The Order Online dialog box appears.

❏ The Order Online dialog box also appears by clicking the Order Online button on the Basic Settings

tab in the printer driver.

a. Text box: Displays the consumables and codes.

b. Order Now/Find Dealer button: Connects to the URL where you can place an order and find the

dealer nearest you.

When you click this button, a confirmation window asking if you wish to connect to the Web site appears. If you do not want this window to appear, select the Do not display the confirmation message before connecting check box in the More Settings dialog box. The More Settings dialog box appears by clicking the More Settings button in the Notice Settings dialog box.

c. Consumables button: Displays the consumables information.

d. Close button: Closes the dialog box.

e. Do not display this window

automatically until a consumable becomes low or reaches end of service life check box:

When this check box is selected, the Order Online window appears automatically only when a consumable first becomes low or reaches end of service life.

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Tray Icon Settings

You can access EPSON Status Monitor by double-clicking the tray icon on the taskbar. The menu that appears by double-clicking the tray icon when no printing job is being processed depends on the settings you select. Follow the steps below to set the tray icon settings.

1. Right-click the tray icon on the taskbar, then select Tray Icon Settings.

2. Confirm that your printer is selected. Select the menu you wish to display from the Information

to display drop-down list. Then click OK.

Note:

You can also access EPSON Status Monitor by right-clicking the tray icon and selecting your printer’s name.

Setting Up the USB Connection

The USB interface that comes with your printer complies with Microsoft Plug and Play (PnP) USB specifications.

Note:

❏ Your computer must support USB 2.0 in order to use USB 2.0 as the interface to connect your computer

to the printer.

❏ Since USB 2.0 is fully compatible with USB 1.1, USB 1.1 can be used as an interface.

1. Access the printer driver.

2. Click the Ports tab.

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Note:

This screen may vary depending on your operating system version.

4. Click OK to save the settings.

Canceling Printing

If the printouts are not what you expected and display incorrect or garbled characters or images, you may need to cancel printing. When the printer’s icon is displayed on the taskbar, follow the instructions below to cancel the printing.

Double-click your printer’s icon on the taskbar. Select the job in the list, then click Cancel from the Document menu.

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After the last page is output, the Ready (green) light on the printer turns on.

The current job is canceled.

Note:

You can also cancel the current print job that is sent from your computer, by pressing the + Cancel Job button on the printer’s control panel. When canceling the print job, be careful not to cancel print jobs sent by other users.

Uninstalling the Printer Software

When you wish to reinstall or upgrade the printer driver, be sure to uninstall the current printer software beforehand.

Uninstalling the printer driver

Note:

The illustrations in this section show Windows XP screens. They may be different from the screens for your operating system.

1. Quit all applications.

2. For Windows Vista, click Start, then click Control Panel.

For Windows XP, XP x64, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64, click Start, click Control Panel, then click Add or Remove Programs. For Windows 2000, click Start, point to Settings, then click Control Panel.

3. For Windows Vista, double-click the Programs and Features icon.

For Windows XP, XP x64, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64, click the Change or Remove Programs icon. For Windows 2000, double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.

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4. For Windows Vista, select EPSON Printer Software, then click Uninstall/Change.

For Windows XP, XP x64, 2000, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64, select EPSON Printer Software, then click Change/Remove.

5. Click the Printer Model tab, select your printer’s icon.

6. Click the Utility tab, and confirm that the check box for the printer software you want to

uninstall is selected.

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Note:

If you wish to uninstall only EPSON Status Monitor, select the EPSON Status Monitor check box.

7. To uninstall, click OK.

Note:

You can uninstall EPSON Network Utility. When the utility is uninstalled, you cannot display the printer status from EPSON Status Monitor of other printers.

8. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Sharing the Printer on a Network

Sharing the printer

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This section describes how to share the printer on a standard Windows network.

The computers on a network can share a printer that is directly connected to one of them. The computer that is directly connected to the printer is the print server, and the other computers are the clients which need permission to share the printer with the print server. The clients share the printer via the print server.

According to the versions of Windows OS and your access rights on the network, perform the appropriate settings of the print server and clients.

Setting the print server

See “Using an additional driver” on page 94.

Setting the clients

See “With Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, or 2000” on page 98.

Note:

❏ From Windows Me or 98 clients, you cannot access the printer shared by the Windows Vista or Vista

x64 print server.

❏ From Windows Vista or Vista x64 clients, you cannot access the printer shared by the Windows Me or

98 print server.

❏ When sharing the printer, be sure to set EPSON Status Monitor so that the shared printer can be

monitored on the print server. See “Notice Settings” on page 86.

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❏ The print server and clients should be set on the same network system, and they should be under the same

network management beforehand.

Using an additional driver

When the print server’s OS is Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, 2000, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64, you can install the additional drivers on the server. The additional drivers are for client computers that have different OS from the server.

Follow the steps below to set a Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, 2000, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64 as a print server, then install the additional drivers.

Note:

You must access Windows XP, XP x64, 2000, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64 as the Administrators of the local machine.

1. For a Windows Vista or Vista x64 print server, click Start, click Control Panel, then

double-click Printers. For a Windows XP, XP x64, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64 print server, click Start, point to Printers and Faxes. For a Windows 2000 print server, click Start, point to Settings, then click Printers.

2. Right-click your printer’s icon, then click Sharing in the menu that appears.

For Windows Vista, click Change sharing options, then click Continue. For Windows XP, XP x64, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64, if the following menu appears, click either Network Setup Wizard or If you understand the security risks but want to share printers without running the wizard, click here. In either case, follow the on-screen instructions.

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3. For a Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64 print server, select

Share this printer, then type the name in the Share name box.

Note:

Do not use spaces or hyphens for the Share name, or an error may occur.

For a Windows 2000 print server, select Shared as, then type the name in the Share Name box.

4. Select the additional drivers.

Note:

If the computers of the server and clients use the same OS, you do not have to install the additional drivers. Just click OK after step3.

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On the Windows XP, XP x64, 2000, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64 print server

Click Additional Drivers.

Select Windows being used for clients, then click OK.

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Server Name Client OS Driver

Windows 2000 Windows XP or 2000 clients Intel Windows 2000

Windows XP

Windows XP or 2000 clients Intel Windows 2000 or XP

Windows XP x64 clients x64 Windows XP

Windows XP x64, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64

Windows Vista, Vista x64 Windows Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003

The additional driver for Windows XP x64 and Server 2003 x64 can be used on Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows

2003 Service Pack 1, or later.

Windows XP or 2000 clients x86 Windows 2000, Windows XP

Windows XP x64 clients x64 Windows XP and Windows

clients

Windows Vista x64, XP x64 or Server 2003 x64 clients

and Windows Server 2003

Server 2003

x86 Type 3 - User Mode

x64 Type 3 - User Mode

Note:

❏ You do not have to install the additional drivers noted below, because these drivers are preinstalled.

Intel Windows 2000 (for Windows 2000) Intel Windows 2000 or XP (for Windows XP) x86 Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (for Windows Server 2003) x64 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (for Windows XP x64 or Windows Sever 2003 x64 edition) x86 Type 3 - User Mode (for Windows Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 clients) x64 Type 3 - User Mode (for Windows Vista x64, XP x64 or Server 2003 x64 clients)

❏ Do not select additional drivers other than the drivers listed in the above table. The other additional

drivers are not available.

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Setting up clients

This section describes how to install the printer driver by accessing the shared printer on a network.

Note:

❏ To share the printer on a Windows network, you need to set the print server. For details, see “Using an

additional driver” on page 94.

❏ This section describes how to access the shared printer on a standard network system using the server

(Microsoft workgroup). If you cannot access the shared printer due to the network system, ask the administrator of the network for assistance.

❏ This section describes how to install the printer driver by accessing the shared printer from the Printers

folder. You can also access the shared printer from Network, Network Neighborhood, or My Network on the Windows desktop.

❏ You cannot use the additional driver on the server system OS.

❏ When you want to use EPSON Status Monitor at a client, you have to install EPSON Status Monitor

from the CD-ROM with administrator privileges in each client.

❏ For Windows Vista, if you want to monitor a shared printer with several users on a client computer,

select the Allow monitoring of the shared printers check box in EPSON Status Monitor.

With Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, or 2000

Follow the steps below to set Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, or 2000 clients.

You can install the printer driver for the shared printer, if you have Power Users or more powerful access rights even if you are not the Administrator.

For Windows Vista or Vista x64, even if you are not an administrator or power user, you can install the printer driver by clicking Continue when the prompt to continue the installation appears.

Note:

The illustrations in this section show Windows XP screens. They may be different from the screens for your operating system.

1. For Windows 2000 clients, click Start, point to Settings, and click Printers.

For Windows XP or XP x64 clients, click Start, point to Printers and Faxes. For Windows Vista or Vista x64 clients, click Start, click Control Panel, then double-click Printers.

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2. For Windows 2000, double-click the Add Printer icon, then click Next.

For Windows XP or XP x64 click Add a printer in the Printer Tasks menu.

For Windows Vista or Vista x64, click Add a printer in the menu bar.

3. For Windows 2000, select Network printer, then click Next.

For Windows XP or XP x64, select A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer, then click Next. For Windows Vista or Vista x64, click Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer. If the shared printer is found automatically, proceed to step 5. If not, click stop and click The printer that I want isn’t listed, then go to step 4.

4. For Windows 2000, type the name of the shared printer, then click Next.

Note:

❏ You can also type “\\(the name of the computer that is locally connected to the shared

printer)\(the shared printer’s name)” in network path or queue name.

❏ You do not necessarily need to type the name of the shared printer.

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For Windows XP or XP x64, select Browse for a printer.

For Windows Vista or Vista x64, click Select a shared printer by name in the dialog box that appears, then click Next.

5. For Windows XP, XP x64, 2000, Server 2003, Server 2003 x64, click the icon of the computer or

server that is connected to the shared printer, and the name of the shared printer, then click Next.

Note for Windows Vista users:

When the dialog box to enter user name and password appears, enter the information about the print server, then click the name of the shared printer. When the Add Printer dialog box appears, click Next.

Note:

❏ The name of the shared printer may be changed by the computer or server that is connected to the

shared printer. To make sure of the name of the shared printer, ask the administrator of the network.

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EPSON C2800 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Copyright and Trademarks

Operating System Versions

Contents

Safety Instructions

Safety

Warnings, Cautions, and Notes

Safety precautions

Important Safety Instructions

Safety Information

Power On/Off Cautions

Getting to Know Your Printer

Where to Find Information

Printer Parts

Front view

Rear view

Inside the printer

Control panel

Options and Consumable Products

Options

Consumable products

Printer Features and Various Printing Options

Printer Features

High-speed tandem printing engine

Pre-defined color settings in the printer driver

Toner save mode

Resolution Improvement Technology and Enhanced MicroGray technology

Wide variety of fonts

Adobe PostScript 3 Mode

PCL Emulation Mode

Various Printing Options

Double-sided printing

Fit to page printing

Pages per sheet printing

Watermark printing

Header/Footer printing

Overlay printing

Using the Reserve Job function

Web-Page Printing

Paper Handling

Paper Sources

MP tray

Standard lower paper cassette

550-sheet Paper Cassette Unit

Selecting a paper source

Loading Paper

MP tray

Standard lower paper cassette and optional paper cassette unit

Output tray

Printing on Special Media

EPSON Color Laser Paper

EPSON Color Laser Transparencies

EPSON Color Laser Coated Paper

Envelopes

Labels

Thick paper and extra thick paper

Loading a custom paper size

Using the Printer Software with Windows

About the Printer Software

Accessing the printer driver

Making Changes to Printer Settings

Making the print quality settings

Duplex printing

Displaying information about consumables with the printer driver

Ordering Consumables

Modifying the print layout

Resizing printouts

Using a watermark

Using headers and footers

Using an overlay

Making Extended Settings

Making Optional Settings

Printing a status sheet

Using the Reserve Job Function

Re-Print Job

Verify Job

Confidential Job