Basic Printing

Note:

You can also set printer options by clicking Print Setup in the File menu, then clicking the Printer, Setup, Properties, or Options button. However, in most applications you’ll then have to select the Print option from the File menu to print using your changes.

For more information about printer settings, click the Help button. In Windows 95 and Windows NT, you can right-click any item on the screen and then click What’s This?

Setting Printer Options from Windows Applications

This section describes the settings you’ll need to check for all your everyday printouts. See Chapter 3 for information about advanced settings for special print jobs.

1.Open your word processor or other Windows software application and open a file you want to print.

2.Choose Print from the File menu. You see the Print dialog box for your application.

3.Make sure your EPSON Stylus COLOR 850 printer is selected, and then click the Printer, Setup, Properties, or Options button. (You may have to click a sequence of buttons in different dialog boxes.) You then see the printer settings dialog box:

Use the Quality/Speed slider to select your print resolution

Click to select Automatic mode

Click to select your media type

Click for more information

4.Click the Main tab if necessary and make sure the Mode option is set to Automatic. This is the easiest way to get good printing results for all kinds of documents, on all types of paper.

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