❑Your screen colors will not exactly match the printed colors because your computer monitor and printer use different methods to produce the colors you see. If you scan images using a scanner, the image goes through another interpretive process that also affects the color.

Monitors and scanners produce colors by combining red, green, and blue—the RGB method. Monitors can produce up to 16 million colors by turning on and off the tiny red, green, and blue phosphors contained in each pixel on the screen. Colors produced this way differ from colors produced by your printer’s cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink—the CMYK method.

Your printer driver settings help you closely match colors for your image type, resolution, and paper or other media. If you need extreme precision in matching colors, you can use a color calibration system available with many software applications. If you use a scanner, make sure your scanning software is set to the correct setting for ink jet printers to help you match colors. Also, your application may include image editing capabilities that let you adjust the colors.

Energy Star Compliance

As an Energy Star Partner, EPSON has determined that this product meets the Energy Star guidelines

for energy efficiency.

The EPA estimates that if all desktop computers, printers, and other peripheral devices met Energy Star standards, energy cost savings would exceed $1 billion annually and carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 20 million tons.

All of EPSON’s ink jet printers conform to Energy Star standards.

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