Chapter 4 Printer Software

About Your Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Using the Printer Driver with Windows Me and 98. . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications . . 37 Accessing the printer driver from the Start menu . . . . . . . . . 39 Changing the printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Using the Printer Driver with Windows XP, 2000,

and Windows NT 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications . . 42 Accessing the printer driver from the Start menu . . . . . . . . . 44 Changing the printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Printer Driver Settings Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Using EPSON Status Monitor 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Setting up EPSON Status Monitor 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Accessing EPSON Status Monitor 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Setting Up Your Printer on a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Sharing the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Setting up your printer as a shared printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Setting for the clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Installing the printer driver from the CD-ROM. . . . . . . . . . . 65 Canceling Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Uninstalling the Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Uninstalling the printer driver

and EPSON Status Monitor 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Chapter 5 Control Panel

Buttons and Lights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Functions auxiliary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Compress Printing Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

About Your Printer’s Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Understanding default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Changing default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Aligning Vertical Lines in Your Printout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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