Printing operations

When you have connected the cables to your printer and have installed the printer driver, you are ready to use your printer. This section describes step by step opera- tions for monochrome and colour printing.

Printing in monochrome

The following paragraphs explain how to perform mon- ochrome printing on plain paper.

Requirements

You need the following items for monochrome print- ing;

1.Ink cartridge

a Black ink cartridge or Econo Black ink car- tridge.

2.Media

a High Grade Paper

b Laser paper or plain paper

c VPhoto Print Film.

Note:

Our VPhoto Primer will help make many plain papers suitable for printing. See Chapter 5, ‘Specialized Printing Operations’ for details.

3.Printing data for monochrome printing

a Printing data consisting of text and/or graphics created by an application.

Placing an ink cartridge in your printer

Make sure at least one black or Econo Black ink car- tridge is installed in the ink cartridge holders.

Caution:

Do not place an ink cartridge directly into the carriage. Doing so may damage the printer.

Note 1:

If at least one of the ink cartridges in the four ink car- tridge holders can be used in the selected printing mode, the carriage will automatically pick up that ink cartridge.

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