
Contents
Notes on Manuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Meaning of Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Illustrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Product Model Descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Manual Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Viewing Video Manuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Viewing PDF Manuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Printer Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Front Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Around the Roll Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Around the Ink Cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Back. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Inside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Control panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Home screen operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Realizing High Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Notes on Usage and Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installation space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Notes when using the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Notes when not using the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Notes when using the control panel. . . . . . . . . . 19
Notes on handling ink cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Notes on handling paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Saving Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Supplied Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Pre-installed Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Using Epson Media Installer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Starting Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Configuration of main screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Edit Media Settings Screen Configuration. . . . . 29
Adding Paper Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Editing Paper Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Sharing Paper Information with Multiple
Computers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using Web Config. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Starting Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Closing Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Function Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using Epson Edge Dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using EPSON Software Updater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Checking software update availability. . . . . . . . . 34
Receiving update notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Uninstalling Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Mac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Changing the Network Connection
Methods
Switching to Wired LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Switching to Wireless LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Directly Connecting Wirelessly (Wi-Fi Direct). . . . 38
Notes on Loading the Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Loading and Removing the Roll Paper. . . . . . . . . . 39
Loading Roll 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Removing Roll 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Loading Roll 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Removing Roll 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Loading Cut Sheets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Loading Poster Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Removing Cut Sheets/Poster Board. . . . . . . . . . 52
Setting Loaded Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
How to Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
When the paper type is not displayed on the
control panel or in the driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Feeding Roll Paper Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Loading Paper for Auto Take-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Loading Method for Auto Take-up. . . . . . . . . . 60
SC-P8500D Series/SC-T7700D Series User's Guide
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