102Printing with EPSON Drivers for Macintosh

ColorSync Rendering Intent settings

Perceptual For photographic images. Maintains the relationship between colors as it scales them to fit within your printer’s color gamut.

Saturation For charts and business graphics. Maintains the relative saturation of colors from one gamut to another.

Colorimetric For projects with known colors, such as labels and packaging. Maintains colors that fall within the gamut of both your monitor and printer.

Note

These settings are overridden by any paper configuration settings you may have made using the printer’s control panel (page 84).

Paper Configuration Options

To access the paper configuration settings, click the Paper Config button in the Advanced dialog box. The following settings are available.

Paper Configuration settings

Color Density

Use this to control the ink saturation level (for example,

 

when you turn off color management in your printer

 

software).

 

 

Drying Time

Use when printing with non-EPSON media. You can make

per Print Head

the print head wait up to 5 seconds after each pass to allow

Pass

ink to dry on the page.

 

 

Paper Feed

Lets you eliminate light or dark horizontal banding in your

Adjustment

printouts.

 

 

Paper

Eliminates vertical banding and creates a sharper image

Thickness

when printing on unusually thick or thin paper.

 

 

Paper Suction

Lets you decrease the paper suction level when printing on

 

thinner papers (less than 12 lb), such as CAD drafting paper

 

or backlight film.

 

 

Cut Method

Decreases the cutting blade pressure for thinner papers, to

 

provide a cleaner cut.