User manual EPSON LQ-580

[. . . ] Printer Parts edge guides paper guide paper guide cover printer cover paper release lever front cover (closed) control panel ribbon cartridge paper thickness lever shield plate knob paper tension unit power switch parallel interface tractor power cord front cover (open) front edge guide Control Panel Buttons and Lights Font button Selects the font. q Ejects a single sheet or advances continuous paper to the next top-of-form position when held down. Paper Out light q On when no paper is loaded in the selected paper source or paper is not loaded correctly. q Flashes when paper has not been fully ejected or a paper jam has occurred. Load/Eject button Tear Off/Bin button q Loads a single sheet of q Advances continuous paper to the paper. [. . . ] See your application manual for details. Using the Printer Software 4-17 1. Select Print Setup or Print from the File menu of your application software. The Print or Print Setup dialog box appears. 4-18 Using the Printer Software 2. Make sure that your printer is selected and then click Printer, Setup, Properties, or Options. (You may need to click a combination of these buttons. ) The Document Properties window appears, and you see the Page Setup and Advanced menus. See "Printer driver settings overview" below, for detailed information about the settings. Accessing the printer driver from the Start menu To access the printer driver from the Start menu, follow these steps: 1. The screen displays the Default Document Properties window, which contains the Page Setup and Advanced menus. See the next section for detailed information about the printer driver settings. Printer driver settings overview Your printer driver has two menus: Page Setup and Advanced. The printer driver settings on each of these menus are described below. To open these menus, see the previous sections on accessing the printer driver. When you finish making your printer driver settings, click OK to apply the settings, or click Cancel to cancel your changes. Page Setup menu 4-20 Using the Printer Software t Paper Size t Paper Source t Orientation Select the size of the paper you want to use from the Paper Size list. Select Portrait or Landscape. Advanced menu 4 Using the Printer Software 4-21 t Paper/Output Check the Paper Size, Orientation, and Paper Source settings you made on the Page Setup menu and change them if necessary. Select the setting and then choose an option from the Change Setting list box. Select Resolution and then choose the printing resolution from the Change Setting list box. The higher the resolution you select, the more detailed your printout will be; however, increasing the resolution slows printing. Double-click Halftone Color Adjustment to open the Halftone Color Adjustment dialog box. Click Print Text as Graphics or Metafile Spooling and select On or Off in the Change Setting list box. If you turn on High Speed, you will enter bi-directional printing mode and printing speed will increase. Turning High Speed off will return the printer to uni-directional printing mode. Default printing uses the settings stored in the printer. t Graphic t Document Options t Print quality 4-22 Using the Printer Software Once you've checked your printer driver settings and changed them if necessary, you are ready to print with continuous paper as described in Chapter 2, or with single sheets as described in Chapter 3. Utility menu To use the utilities, click the Utility tab in the printer software window, then click the button for the utility you want to use. If you are using NT 4. 0, you can open the printer software window by selecting Properties on the File menu in the Printer window. 4 Using the Printer Software 4-23 t EPSON Status Monitor 3 You can access EPSON Status Monitor 3 when you click this button. Whenever you monitor the printer, make sure there is a checkmark in the Monitor the printing status check box. Note: This utility is available only when: t The printer is connected directly to the host computer via the parallel port [LPT1]. [. . . ] Halftoning makes it possible to produce varying shades of gray using only black dots, or a nearly infinite array of colors using only a few colors of dots. See also dithering. hex dump A troubleshooting feature that helps identify the cause of communication problems between the printer and the computer. When the printer is in hex dump mode, it prints each code that it receives in hexadecimal notation as well as in ASCII codes that stand for characters. Also called data dump. 2 Glossary interface The connection (via a cable) between the computer and the printer through which print data is transmitted to the printer. initialization Returns the printer to its default settings (a fixed set of conditions). landscape Printing that is oriented sideways on the page. [. . . ]