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Mac OS X Leopard 
Printer Driver Guide

NPD3699-00

Summary of Contents for Stylus Pro Series

Page 1: ...Mac OS X Leopard Printer Driver Guide NPD3699 00 ...

Page 2: ...ing and maintenance instructions Seiko Epson Corporation shall not be liable for any damages or problems arising from the use of any options or any consumable products other than those designated as Original Epson Products or Epson Approved Products by Seiko Epson Corporation Seiko Epson Corporation shall not be held liable for any damage resulting from electromagnetic interference that occurs fro...

Page 3: ...9 Using Printer Utilities 10 Accessing EPSON Printer Utility3 11 Using EPSON StatusMonitor 11 Uninstalling the Printer Software 12 Uninstalling the printer driver 12 Uninstalling EPSON LFP Remote Panel 13 Variety of Printings Using Color Management 14 Color management 14 Color adjustment by the printer driver 18 Black and White Photo Printing 19 Borderless Printing 21 Supported media type 21 Appli...

Page 4: ...or whenever you want to switch to another printer Your computer will always print using the last printer selected A Turn on the printer B Double click the Applications folder and then double click the System Preferences folder Then double click the Print Fax folder C Click Note The screen may differ depending on the printer you use Note When you use the printer via a network assign an IP address t...

Page 5: ...lications to the printer The following are main functions of the printer driver Sends the print data to the printer Makes the printer settings such as the media type paper size You can register these settings and you can also easily import or export these registered settings EPSON Printer Utility3 You can execute the printer maintenance functions such as Nozzle Check Head Cleaning EPSON Printer Ut...

Page 6: ...you use Page Setup dialog You can make the paper settings such as media type paper size Print dialog You can make the settings related to print quality Accessing the Page Setup dialog To access the Page Setup dialog click Page Setup on the File menu of your application The Page Setup dialog is displayed You can select a paper size borderless printing a paper source and a print area in the Paper Si...

Page 7: ...To access the Print dialog click Print on the File menu of your application The Print dialog is displayed Click the button Make the settings as necessary and then start printing Getting Information Through Online Help To access the online help click the button in the dialog of the printer driver ...

Page 8: ...nt data using the application software Before printing open the printer driver window and confirm the print settings such as the media type paper size Checking the printer status A Click the Printer icon in the Dock B You can check the jobs waiting and their information and also cancel the printing EPSON Printer Monitor The EPSON Printer Monitor appears on your display when you start printing depe...

Page 9: ...hen problem occurs during printing If a problem occurs during printing an error message appears If you are not sure how to solve the problem cancel printing and then start EPSON StatusMonitor that leads you step by step through a procedure to solve a problem Note You can delete a job waiting with the same procedures above You cannot cancel a print job that has been sent to the printer In this case...

Page 10: ...ean the print head if you notice the print quality has declined Printer Head Alignment This utility can be used to improve the print quality of your printed data The alignment of the print head may need to be adjusted if vertical lines appear out of alignment or if white or black banding noise appear in your printed data Use this utility to realign the print head EPSON LFP Remote Panel This utilit...

Page 11: ...ick the icon Using EPSON StatusMonitor EPSON StatusMonitor provides you with detailed printer status information a graphic display of the ink cartridge status and the free space of the maintenance tank and status messages Accessing EPSON StatusMonitor Open the EPSON Printer Utility3 window and then click EPSON StatusMonitor Note There is no the icon in the Print dialog depending on the printer you...

Page 12: ...ror message appears Check the message and solve the problem accordingly Uninstalling the Printer Software To uninstall the printer software follow the steps below Uninstalling the printer driver To uninstall the printer driver and EPSON Printer Utility3 follow the steps below A Turn off the printer and unplug the interface cable connected with the computer and printer B Close the all application s...

Page 13: ...rd or phrase and then click OK To uninstall the printer driver you must log in as a user with administrator rights I Click Continue and then click Accept J Select Uninstall from the pull down menu and then click the Uninstall button K Follow the on screen instructions to uninstall the printer driver Uninstalling EPSON LFP Remote Panel Drag the EPSON LFP Remote Panel folder to the Trash See the EPS...

Page 14: ...m supports the color management system such as ICM for Windows and ColorSync for Mac OS When performing color management using the printer driver the color management system of the operating system is also used In this color management system a color definition file called the ICC profile is used for performing color matching between devices The ICC profile is prepared for each printer model and e...

Page 15: ...e printer profile by the application You can select this method when an application supports its own color management function Color compensation should be turned off no color adjustment in the printer driver See Color management by application on page 16 Application Printer driver Printer Color management by ColorSync Specify the input profile Specify the printer profile You need to perform color...

Page 16: ...e Print dialog See Accessing the Printer Driver on page 6 Intent Explanation Saturation Performs conversion keeping the current saturation unchanged Perceptual Performs conversion so that a more visually natural image is produced This feature is used when a wider gamut of color is used for image data Relative Colorimetric Performs conversion so that a set of color gamut coordinates and white point...

Page 17: ...hotoshop Elements 4 0 A From the File menu select Print B Select the Show More Options check box to display Color Management Select Printer Color Management for the Printer Profile Then click Print Note Use image data in which an input profile has been embedded The application needs to support ColorSync If you use the specific Adobe applications Adobe Photoshop CS2 CS3 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroo...

Page 18: ...ion to adjust the color of the image data automatically Color adjustment by the Color Controls You can perform color management by the printer driver Use this function if the application does not support color management or if you want to manually perform color management A Open the Print dialog See Accessing the Printer Driver on page 6 Note When you select Color Controls in the Print Settings di...

Page 19: ...ite Photo Printing Advanced black and white photo printing is available by making the settings in the Color Controls dialog box without using the application software The print image is adjusted without affecting the original data A Open the Print dialog See Accessing the Printer Driver on page 6 Note This function can be used for the printers that support Epson UltraChrome K3 ink Note If you use ...

Page 20: ...rinter Driver Guide B Select Print Settings C Select Advanced B W Photo for the Color D Click Advanced Color Settings E Make the necessary settings and then start printing For more detailed information see the online help of the printer driver ...

Page 21: ... data Enlarge 3 mm in both the left and right directions total of 6 mm is recommended by using the application that created the data Select this setting if you do not want to change the ratio of your print data by the printer driver Supported media type See the same section in User s Guide for the details Application settings Set the size of the image data using the Page Setting dialog box of the ...

Page 22: ...he paper size and borderless printing such as Auto Expand or Retain Size and then click OK C Open the Print dialog See Accessing the Printer Driver on page 6 D If Auto Expand is selected set the amount of the enlargement in the Page Layout Settings dialog E In the Print Settings dialog select the media type F If you print on roll paper select the Auto Cut setting in the Page Layout Settings See Ro...

Page 23: ...ion is slightly shifted the image on the continuous page remains on the top or bottom area however the printing time gets shorter If you select Single Cut and print only a piece of paper the operation will be the same as Double Cut If you print more than one paper continuously cut 1 mm along the inside of each picture to avoid creating a margin between pictures The top area may smear because the t...

Page 24: ...efine the percentage you want to reduce or enlarge A Open the Page Setup dialog See Accessing the Printer Driver on page 6 B Select the printer and paper size Select the paper size that is loaded in the printer C Set the value for Scale between 1 to 10000 D Check the other settings and then start printing Note Use the standard feature of the operating system for layout printing ...

Page 25: ...low The maximum length of the paper roll can be longer than the paper height if using application software that supports banner printing However the actual print size is dependent on the application the paper size set in the printer or the computer environment A Open the Page Setup dialog See Accessing the Printer Driver on page 6 B Select Manage Custom Sizes in Paper Size Note Use the standard fe...

Page 26: ...ze Top Bottom 0 mm Left Right 3 mm Roll Paper Borderless Auto Expand The paper width that supports borderless printing Top Bottom Left Right 0 mm Roll Paper Borderless Retain Size Roll Paper Borderless Banner The paper width that supports borderless printingand plus 6 mm Top Bottom Left Right 0 mm Note To change the setting you have registered click the paper size name from the list To duplicate t...

Page 27: ...the application can set select the paper size you prefer Printer driver settings A Open the Page Setup dialog See Accessing the Printer Driver on page 6 B Make sure your printer is selected and select the document size created using the application You can also customize the paper size by selecting Manage Custom Sizes C Input a scale to reduce or enlarge the size of your data D Check the other set...

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