Chapter 5 Changing Printer Settings From the Printer’s Control Panel

Selecting a Built-In Font and Pitch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

About Your Printer’s Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Changing default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

Chapter 6 Using EPSON Status Monitor 2

About the EPSON Status Monitor 2 Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2Installing EPSON Status Monitor 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3Accessing EPSON Status Monitor 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4Checking Printer Status Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4Using the EPSON Status Monitor 2 window . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4Using the Printer Status window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9Making Monitoring Preference Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10Turning on background monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11Using the background monitoring icon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12

Chapter 7 Troubleshooting

Using the Error Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Problems and Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4

Power supply problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Single-sheet paper loading or feeding problems . . . . . . . . 7-6

Continuous paper loading or feeding problems . . . . . . . . 7-8

Wrong top-of-form position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9

Wrong tear-off position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

Printing or printout quality problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11

Clearing Paper Jams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

Aligning Vertical Lines in Your Printout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17

Printing a Self Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18

Printing a Hex Dump. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19

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