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Your screen colors will not exactly match the printed colors
because your computer monitor and printer use different
methods to produce the colors you see. If you scan
images using a scanner, the image goes through another
interpretive process that also affects the color.
Monitors and scanners produce colors by combining red,
green, and blue—the RGB method. Monitor can produce
up to 16 million colors by turning on and off the tiny red,
green, and blue phosphors contained in each pixel on the
screen. Colors produced this way differ from colors
produced by your printer’s cyan, magenta, and yellow ink
colors—the CMY method.
Your printer driver settings help you closely match colors for
your image type, resolution, and paper or other media. If
you need extreme precision in matching colors, you can use
a color calibration system available with many software
applications. If you use a scanner, make sure your scanning
software is set to the correct setting for ink jet printers.
Also, your application may include image editing
capabilities that let you adjust the colors.
Energy Star Compliance
As an Energy Star Partner, EPSON has determined
that this product meets the Energy Star guidelines
for energy efficiency.
The EPA estimates that if all desktop computers, printers, and
other peripheral devices met Energy Star standards, energy
cost savings would exceed $1 billion annually and carbon
dioxide emissions would be reduced by 20 million tons.
All of EPSON’s ink jet printers conform to Energy Star
standards.
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