User manual EPSON STYLUS PHOTO 900

[. . . ] User's Guide Printed on recycled paper with at least 10% post-consumer content paper support extension paper support edge guides printer cover control panel output tray output tray extensions ink cartridge clamp thickness lever load/eject button paper light power button black ink out light color ink out light cleaning button All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. The information contained herein is designed only for use with this EPSON printer. EPSON is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to other printers. [. . . ] However, you can use it at any time to see how much ink you have left. Click the Utility tab. 4-4 Managing Print Jobs and Network Printing You see the Utility menu: For information about these three utilities, see Chapter 5 3. Click the EPSON Status Monitor icon. You see the Despooler window with the Status Monitor at the bottom: 4. 4-5 Managing Print Jobs and Network Printing Managing Print Jobs on a Macintosh Your Macintosh printer software includes two management utilities: Monitor2 and Status Monitor. If you're using background printing, Monitor2 starts automatically when you send a job to the printer. It handles printing while you continue to work on your Macintosh and lets you track documents that are waiting to be printed. The Status Monitor alerts you to any problems that occur during printing. You can also use it at any time to see how much ink you have left. Using Monitor2 The Monitor2 utility lets you continue to work on your Macintosh while your document is printing. However, background printing is slower and may also slow down your system. If you want to use this utility, you need to turn on background printing in the Chooser and increase the memory allocation for Monitor2. Open the Chooser from the Apple menu and select the EPSON Stylus(EX) icon. To increase the memory allocated to Monitor2, select EPSON Monitor2 in the Extensions folder in your System folder. Choose Get Info from the File menu. 4-6 Managing Print Jobs and Network Printing 5. While you're printing, click the EPSON Monitor2 icon on the Application menu at the right end of the menu bar. You see a dialog box like the following: job currently printing jobs queued for printing appear here 7. You can select a job and cancel it or just use this window to track the printer's progress. Using the Macintosh Status Monitor You can use the Status Monitor to check the level of ink in your printer and to control the way your software warns you about printer problems. Choose Print from the File menu or click the print icon in your application. You see the printer settings dialog box. 4-7 Managing Print Jobs and Network Printing 2. You see the Utility menu: For information about these three utilities, see Chapter 5 3. The software checks the amount of ink remaining in the printer and displays the Status Monitor window: Click to control messages and warnings Click to recheck ink level 4. If you want to change printer messages and warnings, click the Configuration button. 4-8 Managing Print Jobs and Network Printing You see the following dialog box: Printing stops when these messages appear Printing continues when these messages appear 5. Choose the options you want and click OK. Network Printing on a PC You can use your printer on a network under Windows 95 or other network operating systems. [. . . ] Dithering works best for printing images with solid colors, such as charts and graphs. A software program that sends instructions to a computer device to tell it what to do. For example, your printer driver accepts print data from your image processing application and sends instructions to the printer on how to print this data. G-1 ColorSync default dithering dpi driver Glossary Error Diffusion This halftoning setting smooths out edges by randomly placing dots of varying colors. [. . . ]