User guide
Table Of Contents
- Copyright and Trademarks
- Operating System Versions
- Contents
- Safety Instructions
- Getting to Know Your Printer
- Printing Tasks
- Using the Control Panel
- Installing Options
- Replacing Consumable Products
- Cleaning and Transporting the Printer
- Troubleshooting
- Clearing Jammed Paper
- Printing a Configuration Status Sheet
- Operational Problems
- Printout Problems
- Print Quality Problems
- The background is dark or dirty
- White dots appear in the printout
- Print quality or tone is uneven
- Half-tone images print unevenly
- Toner smudges
- Areas are missing in the printed image
- Completely blank pages are output
- The printed image is light or faint
- The non-printed side of the page is dirty
- Print quality decreased
- Memory Problems
- Paper Handling Problems
- Problems Using Options
- Correcting USB Problems
- Status and Error Messages
- Canceling Printing
- Printing in the PostScript 3 Mode Problems
- The printer does not print correctly in the PostScript mode
- The printer does not print
- The printer or its driver does not appear in utilities in the printer configuration (Macintosh only)
- The font on the printout is different from that on the screen
- The printer fonts cannot be installed
- The edges of texts and/or images are not smooth
- The printer does not print normally via the USB interface
- The printer does not print normally via the network interface
- An undefined error occurs (Macintosh only)
- Printing in the PCL6/5 Mode Problems
- The printer does not print
- The printer does not print correctly in the PCL mode (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- The printer does not start manual duplex printing (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- The font on the printout is different from that on the screen
- The edges of texts and/or images are not smooth (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- Cannot print from Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- About the Printer Software for Windows
- About the PostScript Printer Driver
- About the PCL Printer Driver
- Technical Specifications
- Where To Get Help
- Index
Optional paper cassette unit......................................................... 38
Notes on loading A4 size paper....................................................... 38
Selecting and Using Print Media.......................................................... 39
Labels............................................................................ 39
Envelopes......................................................................... 40
Thick paper....................................................................... 41
Transparencies.................................................................... 42
Custom paper size.................................................................. 42
Cancelling a Print Job................................................................... 43
From the printer................................................................... 43
From the computer................................................................. 44
Setting the Print Quality................................................................. 44
Using the Automatic setting......................................................... 44
Using the Advanced setting.......................................................... 45
Customizing print settings........................................................... 46
Toner Save mode.................................................................. 47
Setting the Advanced Layout............................................................. 48
Duplex printing (with the Duplex Unit)................................................ 48
Output settings.................................................................... 49
Modifying the print layout........................................................... 50
Resizing printouts. ................................................................. 51
Printing watermarks................................................................ 52
Printing headers and footers......................................................... 54
Printing with an overlay............................................................. 55
Printing with an overlay (with the storage)............................................. 58
Printing the copy-protected document................................................. 60
Printing Web Pages to Fit Your Paper Size.................................................. 61
Using the Reserve Job Function........................................................... 62
Sending the print job............................................................... 62
Chapter 3 Using the Control Panel
Using the Control Panel Menus........................................................... 64
When to make control panel settings. . . . .............................................. 64
How to access the control panel menus................................................ 64
How to register menus as bookmarks.................................................. 65
Control Panel Menus................................................................... 66
Information Menu................................................................. 66
System Information Menu........................................................... 68
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