CHAPTER 3 RECOMMENDATIONS
The following recommendations are provided for development of printer drivers for the Stylus Photo 870 printer. The values provided are only starting recommendations. Adjustments to these values for different halftone modules may improve driver output quality.
3.1 Printing Mode Settings of the EPSON Stylus COLOR 460
The EPSON Stylus Photo 870 supports the following printing modes. More information regarding commands for these modes of printing can be found in the Individual Command Specifications portion of this paper.
Table 4 Recommended Print Mode settings
Printing mode | Print density | Micro Weave | 02H value of |
| (horizontal x vertical) |
| SN Command |
Economy | 120(360)dpi x 120dpi | OFF | 03 |
Normal | 360dpi x 360dpi | OFF | 02 |
Normal | 360dpi x 360dpi | ON | 01 |
Fine | 360dpi x 720dpi | ON | 00 |
Photo(720) | 720dpi x 720dpi | ON | 00 |
Photo(1440) | 1440dpi x 720dpi | ON | 00 |
3.2 Color Ink Mode Setting Recommendations for the Stylus COLOR 870
Table 5 Color ink printing recommendations.
Media | Print quality | Resolution | |
|
| dpi | printing |
Plain paper | Normal | 360x360 | ON |
| Photo(720) | 720x720 | ON |
360dpi Ink Jet Paper | Normal | 360x360 | OFF |
Photo Quality Ink | Fine | 360x720 | ON |
Jet Paper | Photo(720) | 720x720 | ON |
Matte Paper - | Fine | 360x720 | ON |
Heavyweight | Photo(720) | 720x720 | ON |
Photo Paper | Fine | 360x720 | ON |
| Photo(720) | 720x720 | ON |
RC Paper | Fine | 360x720 | ON |
| Photo(720) | 720x720 | ON |
Photo Quality Glossy | Photo(720) | 720x720 | OFF |
Film |
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Ink Jet Transparencies | Normal | 360x360 | OFF |
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