User manual EPSON STYLUS PHOTO STYLUS PHOTO EX

[. . . ] User's Guide Printed on recycled paper with at least 10% post-consumer content paper support extension paper support edge guides printer cover control panel output tray output tray extensions ink cartridge clamp paper out light load/eject button power light thickness lever color ink out light black ink out light cleaning button power button All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. The information contained herein is designed only for use with this EPSON printer. EPSON is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to other printers. [. . . ] Type a name for your custom size in the New Paper Size box. To print a panoramic image, type 8. 5 inches for the Width and up to 44 inches for the Height. (This works for both "landscape" and "portrait" style images. ) Click OK, then OK again. If you're using computer paper, choose Plain paper for the Media Type setting. If you're using coated banner paper, try the Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper setting. 9. Choose Print from the File menu or click the print icon in your application. You see a printer settings dialog box like the one shown on page 1-7. Make sure you choose the appropriate media type and the other settings you want to use, and then click Print to print your banner. 3-11 Printing on Special Media 3-12 4 Managing Print Jobs Your printer software includes several utilities for managing print jobs. You can use them to monitor your printer's status, set up large jobs to print later, and handle network printing. This chapter provides instructions for the following: Managing print jobs in Windows 95 Managing print jobs in Windows 3. 1 Managing print jobs in Windows NT 4. 0 Managing print jobs on a Macintosh Managing Print Jobs in Windows 95 Note: You can use Status Monitor 2 only if it is installed and your printer is connected directly to the computer or connected to a remote server in a Windows 95 network. Your printer software offers three ways to manage and monitor your print jobs in Windows 95: The Progress Meter, which appears each time you send a print job, as described on page 1-5. You can turn the Progress Meter on or off and select other printing options using the Speed & Progress button; see page 4-2 for details. The Spool Manager, which appears in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen each time you print, as described on page 4-4. Status Monitor 2, which provides a variety of print monitoring options, as described on page 4-5. 4-1 Managing Print Jobs Selecting the Speed & Progress Options You can set up the way your printer software sends print jobs and select whether to display the Progress Meter using the Speed & Progress dialog box. To access the dialog box, you must open your printer software from the Windows 95 Printers utility as described below. Click Start, point to Settings, then click Printers. Right-click the EPSON Stylus Photo EX printer icon and select Properties from the drop-down menu. You see the printer settings dialog box. You see the Utility menu: Speed & Progress button 4-2 Managing Print Jobs 4. You see this dialog box: This section appears only if you have more than one hard drive Select from the following options: Note: The folder you select in the High Speed Copy Folder box is also the default spool directory. Try changing this folder if you get an error message when trying to print. High Speed Copies speeds up printing of multiple copies of the same document by using your hard disk space as a cache. Show Progress Meter lets you control whether or not the Progress Meter is displayed when you send a print job. See page 1-5 for information on the Progress Meter. [. . . ] This happens every time you turn on or reset the printer. A method of printing in which images, lines, letters, or symbols are formed by precisely spraying ink onto paper. The connection between the computer and a peripheral such as a printer. Some printers have two interfaces, parallel and serial. [. . . ]