❑Printer driver settings control every aspect of how your printer prints, so be sure to select settings that are appropriate for your images each time you print. If you are using Windows, see Chapter 2 for information about the printer driver software. If you have a Macintosh, see Chapter 3. Both drivers include online help to make using the driver as easy as possible.

If You Are New to Color Printing

Color printing with the EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 produces amazing images, whether you print text, graphics, line drawings, photographs, or documents containing many different image types. However you use your color printer, keep the following in mind:

❑Leave a large amount of unused hard disk space on your computer to make room for your color images. A full-page color photographic image may require 40MB or more of disk space, depending on the resolution. To reduce file size, you can decrease the size and resolution of your images using your printer driver and application software.

❑Color printing takes time because of the complex processing required to create a color image. How much time depends on the size and type of your image, the resolution you use, the speed of your computer, and the type of interface you are using. (Serial printing takes longer than parallel printing.) However, the fantastic results make the time spent well worth it.

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