Printer User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Copyright and Trademarks
- Operating System Versions
- Contents
- Safety Instructions
- Getting to Know Your Printer
- Printing Tasks
- Using the Control Panel
- Installing Options
- Replacing Consumable Products
- Cleaning and Transporting the Printer
- Troubleshooting
- Clearing Jammed Paper
- Printing a Configuration Status Sheet
- Operational Problems
- Printout Problems
- Print Quality Problems
- The background is dark or dirty
- White dots appear in the printout
- Print quality or tone is uneven
- Half-tone images print unevenly
- Toner smudges
- Areas are missing in the printed image
- Completely blank pages are output
- The printed image is light or faint
- The non-printed side of the page is dirty
- Print quality decreased
- Memory Problems
- Paper Handling Problems
- Problems Using Options
- Correcting USB Problems
- Status and Error Messages
- Canceling Printing
- Printing in the PostScript 3 Mode Problems
- The printer does not print correctly in the PostScript mode
- The printer does not print
- The printer or its driver does not appear in utilities in the printer configuration (Macintosh only)
- The font on the printout is different from that on the screen
- The printer fonts cannot be installed
- The edges of texts and/or images are not smooth
- The printer does not print normally via the USB interface
- The printer does not print normally via the network interface
- An undefined error occurs (Macintosh only)
- Printing in the PCL6/5 Mode Problems
- The printer does not print
- The printer does not print correctly in the PCL mode (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- The printer does not start manual duplex printing (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- The font on the printout is different from that on the screen
- The edges of texts and/or images are not smooth (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- Cannot print from Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- About the Printer Software for Windows
- About the PostScript Printer Driver
- About the PCL Printer Driver
- Technical Specifications
- Where To Get Help
- Index

❏ Note that if the user account used to log on to a client is different from the user account used to
connect to the server, the job management function is not available.
Notice Settings
a. Monitor the printing status check
box:
When this check box is selected, EPSON Status Monitor monitors the printer
status during a print job is processed.
b. More Settings button: Opens the More Settings dialog box to set how to display the tray icon.
c. Pop-up Notice: Sets the notification to be displayed.
d. Allow monitoring of shared
printers check box:
When this check box is selected, a shared printer can be monitored by other
computers.
If you connect the printer via a server with Windows Point & Print and the
server and the client are both Windows XP or later, it communicates with
the OS communication function. Therefore you can monitor the printer
without selecting this check box.
e More Settings button: Opens the More Settings dialog box to set how to communicate with the
shared printer.
f. Display the Order Online window
automatically check box:
When this check box is selected, the Order Online window appears
automatically when a consumable becomes low or reaches end of service
life.
g. Display once a day when a
replacement part is low check
box:
When this radio button is selected, the Order Online window appears
automatically once a day when you start printing or display the status by
accessing EPSON Status Monitor.
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