Contents
Important Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
When choosing a place for this product. . . . . . . . 6
When setting up this product. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
When using this product. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the printer with a wireless connection. . . . 7
When handling the ink cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the LCD screen (Touch panel). . . . . . . . . . 7
Meaning of Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Printer Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Front section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Back. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Control panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Home Screen View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Printer Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Notes on Usage and Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installation space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Notes when using the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Notes when not using the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Notes on handling ink cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Notes on handling paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Introducing the Supplied Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Contents of the Software Disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Summary of the Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Loading Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Displaying the Paper Setup Screen. . . . . . . . . . . 24
Loading Paper into the Auto Sheet Feeder. . . . . 24
Loading Fine Art Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Loading Poster Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Loading Roll Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Cutting Roll Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Removing Roll Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Basic Printing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Printing (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Printing (Mac OS X). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Canceling Printing (Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Canceling Printing (Mac OS X). . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Canceling Printing (Control Panel). . . . . . . . . . 39
Printable area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Changing the Type of Black Ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Switching Automatically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Switching Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Energy Saving Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using the Printer Driver(Windows)
Displaying the Settings Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
From the Start button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Displaying Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Customizing the Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Saving various settings as your Select Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Saving media settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Rearranging display items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Summary of the Utility Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Uninstalling the printer driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the Printer Driver(Mac OS X)
Displaying the Settings Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Displaying Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using Epson Printer Utility 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Uninstalling the printer driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Correct color and print. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Printing Black and White Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Borderless printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Types of Borderless Printing Methods. . . . . . . . 62
Supported Media Sizes for Borderless Printing
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Setting Procedures for Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Enlarged/Reduced Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Fit to Page/Scale to fit paper size. . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Fit to Roll Paper Width(Windows only). . . . . . . 68
Custom Scale Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SC-P800 Series User’s Guide
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