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DAI A. Kobayashi T. Morita

K. Nishi

K. Ramsey

Chapter 2 Setting up the Printer with Your Macintosh

Connecting the Printer to Your Macintosh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Using the built-in serial interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Using the built-in parallel interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Installing the Printer Software on Macintosh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Printer software components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Installing on Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Using the Chooser to select your printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Setting up Your Printer on a Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Chapter 3 Printing and Printer Management

Loading Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Loading roll paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Loading cut sheet media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7

Loading cut sheet media longer than 483 mm

(long edge of Super A3/B size). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7

Loading cut sheet with a length of A3,

Super A3/B, and B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Printing From Your PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

Making the printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Cancelling printing from your PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Printing From Your Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Making the printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Cancelling printing from your Macintosh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19

Chapter 4 Checking the Printer’s Condition

Using Printer Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Accessing the printer utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Printing the Nozzle Check Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

Cleaning the Print Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Aligning the Print Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6