Chapter 3

(continued)

To try these features…

Follow these steps

 

 

 

Add a color effect

1.

Press Select Photos or to display the

You can set the printer to

 

photo to which you want to add a color effect.

2.

Press Menu.

change the color effect applied

to a photo from No effect

3.

Select Edit, then press OK.

(default) to Black & white,

4.

Select Add color effect, then press OK.

Sepia, or Antique.

5.

Select a color effect, then press OK.

Photos printed in Sepia print

 

The photo appears on the printer screen with

 

the selected color effect applied. The effect

in brown tones and look

 

 

does not change the original photo. It only

similar to photos produced in

 

 

affects printing.

the early 1900s. Photos

 

 

 

 

printed in Antique print in the

 

 

 

same brown tones, but with

 

 

 

some pale colors added to

 

 

 

give the appearance that they

 

 

 

are hand-colored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Create borderless prints

➔

Turn the Layout dial to the One photo per

You can set the printer to print

 

sheet, borderless icon.

 

 

 

borderless photos.

Make sure to use photo paper. If you use plain

 

paper, the printer will override the borderless

 

setting and print with narrow white borders on all

 

sides to prevent paper jams.

 

 

 

Add the date and time to

1.

Press Menu.

your prints

2.

Select Preferences, then press OK.

You can print a stamp on the

3.

Select Date/time, then press OK.

front of your photos that

4.

Select one of the following date/time stamp

shows when the photo was

 

options:

taken. This preference affects

 

–

Date/time

all prints.

 

–

Date only

 

 

–

Off

 

5.

Press OK.

 

If you use a computer to modify the photo and

 

then save your changes, the original date and time

 

information are lost. Changes that you make to the

 

photo using the printer control panel do not affect

 

the date and time information.

 

 

Change the print qualityTo change the print quality to Normal for one

You can change the print

print job:

1.

Press Menu.

quality for photos. Best quality

is the default and produces

2.

Select Tools, then press OK.

the highest quality photos.

3.

Select Print quality, then press OK.

Normal quality conserves ink

4.

Select Normal, then press OK.

and prints faster.

Print quality will revert to Best after the next print

 

 

job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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