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

Item Settings (default in bold)
Text Detection
Off, On
PDF Page Size
Auto, A4, A3, A5, A6, B4, B5, LT, HLT, LGL, GLT, GLG, B, EXE, F4, MON, C10, DL, C5, C6, IB5
Error Sheet
When you select On, the printer prints out an error sheet when an error occurs in the PS3 mode or
when the PDF file you tried to print is not a supported version.
Image Protect
When On is selected, the print quality is not reduced even with insufficient memory. In that case,
Memory Overflow is displayed and the printing is stopped.
When Off is selected, the print quality is reduced with insufficient memory. In that case,
Image Optimum is displayed and the printing is continued.
Binary
Specifies the data format. Select On for the Binary data and select Off for the ASCII data.
Note:
❏ Binary can only be used with network connection.
❏ You do not have to select On when using AppleTalk.
To use the Binary data, make sure your application supports Binary data and that SEND CTRL-D
Before Each Job and SEND CTRL-D After Each Job are set to No.
When this setting is set to On, you cannot use TBCP (Tagged binary communication protocol) in the
printer driver settings.
Text Detection
When you select On, the text file is converted to a PostScript file when printing. This setting is available
only when you select PS3 in the Emulation Menu.
PDF Page Size
Specifies the paper size when you send the PDF file directory from a computer or some other device. If
Auto is selected, the paper size is determined based on the size of the first page that is printed.
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