EPSON Stylus 1500

❏After printing on high-quality glossy paper or transparencies, remove each sheet from the output tray immediately. Make sure each sheet is dry before stacking.

❏Return unused sheets and envelopes to their original package as soon as possible after you finish printing. Keep the paper wrapped and store flat in a dry, protected area. Unfavorable storage conditions—especially high temperature, humidity, and direct sunlight—can damage the media.

Loading Coated or Glossy Papers and Transparencies

Use the same procedure described in “Loading Plain Paper in the Sheet Feeder” to load coated or glossy papers and transparencies in the sheet feeder. You can load up to the following number of sheets:

❏70 sheets of coated paper. However, if you load legal-size or oversize coated paper for 360 or 720 dpi, do not load more than 30 sheets and make sure the paper does not reach more than halfway to the arrow mark on the inside of the edge guide.

❏50 sheets of transparency film

❏30 sheets of high-quality glossy paper.

Note:

Use only EPSON transparency film and high-quality glossy paper.

Remember to change the printer driver settings so they are appropriate for the media you loaded.

Printing on Continuous Paper

The built-in tractor feeder lets you print on continuous paper from 4 inches (102 mm) to 16 inches (406 mm) wide. You can use the tractor feeder without removing paper from the sheet feeder.

When printing on continuous paper, keep the following in mind:

❏When you turn on the printer with paper loaded on the tractor feeder, it reverses the paper to the paper-park position and then advances it to the next page. To keep the loading position accurate, remove any printed sheets before you turn off the printer.

❏If the printer runs out of paper during a print job, load paper onto the push tractor and press the Pause button to continue printing.

❏If printing appears too high or low on the page, you can use micro adjust mode to adjust the loading position or tear-off position. The settings you make remain in effect until you change them again, even if you turn off the printer.

c Caution:

Do not use the knob on the left side of the printer to adjust the loading position; this may damage the printer or cause it to lose the top-of-form position.

❏If the paper is released from the sprocket pins, never feed paper backward; this may cause a paper jam. Reload the paper by following the instructions in the next section.

Loading Continuous Paper

Follow these steps to load continuous paper in the printer:

1.Place the supply of continuous paper directly behind the printer so that paper can feed smoothly. Make sure the paper path is not obstructed, and allow enough room for printed pages to be stacked in front of the printer.

2.Move the paper-release lever to the continuous paper position.

Note:

If a single sheet is in the paper path, press the Load/Eject button to eject it before moving the paper-release lever.

3.Hold the manual feed guide with both hands and gently lift it up and off the printer.

4.Release the sprocket units on the tractor by raising the sprocket-lock levers.

5.Move the sprocket units to match the paper’s width; then position the center support midway between the two sprocket units.

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