Introduction

The EPSON® Stylus® COLOR 500 is an affordable, high-quality ink jet printer that can print up to 16 million colors at a resolution of 720 × 720 dpi to produce full-color, photo-quality images. It also produces realistic grayscale images, laser-quality text, and line art. The printer’s ink jet technology allows it to operate quietly, keeping your workspace peaceful.

The Stylus COLOR 500 is easy to install and use. You simply set it up and install the printer driver software as described in this book. The printer has built-in parallel and serial interfaces, so you can connect it to an IBM® PC compatible computer or an Apple® Macintosh.® You can even connect both simultaneously; the printer automatically switches between interfaces as it receives print data.

Your printer comes with software for both the PC and the Macintosh. This printer software includes a “driver” that controls printing and lets you choose from a wide variety of printer settings. You can change settings to improve print quality, speed up printing, or achieve special printing effects. And to make your selections easy, both printer drivers include an automatic setting which determines the best printer settings for the type of data you are printing.

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