Improving photo quality

The printer lets you improve the brightness or contrast of any photo printed from a memory card. These print settings do not change the original photo. They only affect printing.

Problem

How to correct it

 

 

 

Photos with poor brightness

1.

Press Menu.

 

2.

Press

until Digital Flash

 

 

appears, then click .

 

3.

Press

until On appears, then

 

 

press .

 

 

 

 

Blurred photos

1.

Press Menu.

 

2.

Press

until AutoFocus appears,

 

 

then click .

 

3.

Press

until On appears, then

 

 

press .

 

 

 

 

 

Doing common printing tasks from a memory card

This section describes some of the most common printing tasks you might want to do from a memory card.

If you want to…

Follow these steps:

 

 

 

Print a borderless photo

1.

Press Layout on the printer until Layout: 1

You can print borderless

 

photo borderless appears on the printer

 

screen.

photos without even being

 

2.

Select the photo or photos you want to print.

connected to a computer.

 

For more information, see Selecting photos to

Before you begin, make sure

 

 

print.

that the memory card is

 

3.

Press Print.

inserted in the printer and the

 

 

paper tray you want to use is

 

 

loaded with the correct paper.

 

 

 

 

 

Change the print quality to

1.

Press Menu.

Normal for one print job

2.

Select Print quality, then press .

You can change the print

3.

Select Normal, then press .

quality for photos. Best quality

Print quality will revert to Best after the next print

is the default and produces

job.

 

the highest quality photos.

 

 

Normal quality conserves ink

 

 

and prints faster.

 

 

 

 

 

Print one or more photos

1.

Press the Layout button to select a photo

Before you begin, make sure

 

layout. Select Layout: 1 photo borderless

 

for borderless prints.

that the memory card is

 

 

 

inserted in the printer and the

 

 

 

 

 

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