Epson Aculaser M1200 User Manual

							Making a new watermark (AcuLaser M1200 only)
For Mac OS X 10.5 users
1. Open the print dialog box.
2. Select Printer Settings from the drop-down list and click the Stamp Function button.
3. Select the Watermark Settings tab, then select the Watermark check box.
4. Select Text or Image, then click .
5. If you select Text, type the watermark text, then select Font and Style. If you select Image,
select an image file (PDF, PNG, or JPG), then click Open.
Note:
❏To edit the watermark name, double-click the watermark in the List box, then type the
watermark name.
❏To remove the created watermark, select it from the List box, and click 
. Then, click OK.
6. Select a custom water mark that has been saved from the Watermark drop-down list.
Note:
You can register up to 32 custom watermarks.
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							Printing headers and footers (AcuLaser M1200 only)
This function allows you to print user name, computer name, date, time, or collate number, at the
top or bottom of each page in a document.
For Mac OS X 10.5 users
1. Open the print dialog box.
2. Select Printer Settings from the drop-down list and click the Stamp Function button.
3. Select the Header/Footer tab, then select the Header/Footer check box.
4. Select the items from the drop-down list.
Note:
If you select Collate Number, the number of copies is printed.
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							Monitoring Your Printer with EPSON Status Monitor 3
About the EPSON Status Monitor 3
The EPSON Status Monitor 3 is a utility program that monitors your printer and gives you
information about its current status. For example, you can find out the amount of the remaining
service life of the developer cartridge through this utility. If a print error occurs, the utility
provides you with a message describing the error. The EPSON Status Monitor 3 is accessed from
within the printer driver. See the following section for more information.
Accessing the EPSON Status Monitor 3
For Mac OS X 10.5 users
Follow these steps to access the EPSON Status Monitor 3:
1. Open System Preferences, and then click the Print & Fax icon.
2. Select your printer from the Printers list and click Open Print Queue.
3. Click the Utility icon.
For Mac OS X 10.4 or below users
Follow these steps to access the EPSON Status Monitor 3:
1. Click Print in the File menu of any application. The Print dialog box appears.
2. Select Printer Settings in the list where Copies & Pages is displayed.
3. Select Utilities tab, and then click EPSON Status Monitor 3 icon.
Getting printer status details
You can monitor printer status and obtain information on consumable products using the EPSON
Status Monitor 3 dialog box.
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							AcuLaser M1200
1 Icon/Message Shows the printer status.
2 Printer image The image at the upper left shows the printer status graphically.
3 Text box The text box next to the printer image displays the current status of the
printer. When a problem occurs, the most probable solution is displayed.
4
Close buttonCloses the dialog box.
5Paper Displays the paper size.
6Toner
Indicates the remaining service life of the developer cartridge. The toner icon
flashes if the developer cartridge has some error or neared the end of its
service life.
7 Photoconductor Unit
lifeIndicates the remaining service life of the photoconductor unit.
Setting Monitoring Preferences
To make specific monitoring settings, select the Monitor Setup from File menu of the EPSON
Status Monitor 3. The Monitoring Preferences dialog box appears.
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							AcuLaser M1200
1
Monitor the printing
status check boxWhen this check box is selected, EPSON Status Monitor 3 monitors the
printer status during a print job is processed.
2 Error Notification
SelectionSelects the types of errors that you wish to be notified about.
Note: 
You can choose Once a day for consumable.
Once a day: When a notification occurs, it is displayed once a day until it is
resolved
3
Default buttonRestores default settings.
4
Cancel buttonCancels any changes.
5
OK buttonSaves new changes.
6
Save buttonSaves new changes and closes the dialog box.
Status Alert window
The Status Alert window appears automatically when an error occurs. It indicates what type of
error has occurred and offers you a possible solution. It closes automatically once the problem is
cleared.
If you wish to see information about printer consumables, click d. If you click this button, the
Status Alert Window will not disappear even after the problem is cleared. To close the box you
need to click Close.
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							Changing the Printer Settings
You can change the settings on the printer, such as paper source, paper type, and paper quality
using EPSONRemotePanel.
For Mac OS X 10.5 users
1. Open System Preferences, and click the Print & Fax icon.
2. Select your printer from the Printers list, and click Open Print Queue.
3. Press and hold the Option key, and click the Utility icon.
4. Select your printer in the EPSONRemotePanel dialog box.
5. Click Setting, and then click Configuration.
For Mac OS X 10.4 or below users
1. Open the Print dialog box.
2. Select Printer Settings, and click the Utility tab.
3. Click EPSON Remote Control Panel icon.
4. Select your printer in the EPSONRemotePanel dialog box.
5. Click Setting, and then click Configuration.
Setting Up the USB Connection
Note:
If you are connecting the USB cable to your Macintosh through a USB hub, be sure to connect using
the first hub in the chain. The USB interface may be unstable depending on the hub used. If you
experience problems with this type of setup, connect the USB cable directly to your computer’s USB
connector.
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							For Mac OS X users
1. Open the Applications folder on your hard drive, then open the Utilities folder and
double-click the Print & Fax (for Mac OS X 10.5), Printer Setup Utility (for Mac OS X 10.3
and 10.4) or Print Center (for Mac OS X 10.2) icon.
2. Click Add Printer in the Printer List dialog box.
3. Select EPSON USB from the pop-up menu. Select your printer icon in the Product list, then
click Add.
4. Close Print & Fax (for Mac OS X 10.5), Printer Setup Utility (for Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4) or
Print Center (for Mac OS X 10.2).
Canceling Printing
If the printouts are not what you expected and contain incorrect or garbled characters or images,
you may need to cancel printing.
From the computer
To cancel printing from the computer, use the EPSON Status Monitor 3 utility. During
background printing, open the EPSON Monitor 3 from the Application menu. Then stop printing
from the EPSON Monitor 3, or delete the file which is in standby mode.
Uninstalling Printer Software
When you wish to reinstall or upgrade the printer driver, be sure to uninstall the current printer
software beforehand.
Mac OS X users
Follow these steps to uninstall the printer software:
1. Quit all applications, and restart your Macintosh.
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							2. Insert the printer software CD-ROM into your Macintosh.
3. Double-click the Mac OS X folder.
4. Double-click the Printer Driver folder.
5. Double-click your printer’s icon.
Note:
If the Authorization dialog box appears, enter the Password or phrase, and then click OK.
6. When the software license agreement screen appears, read the statement, and then click
Accept.
7. Select Uninstall from the menu at the upper left, and then click Uninstall.
8. Follow the on-screen instructions.
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							Chapter 5
Setting Up Your Printer on a Network (AcuLaser M1200)
For Windows Users
Sharing the printer
This section describes how to share the printer on a standard Windows network.
The computers on a network can share a printer that is directly connected to one of them. The
computer that is directly connected to the printer is the print server, and the other computers are
the clients which need permission to share the printer with the print server. The clients share the
printer via the print server.
According to the versions of Windows OS and your access rights on the network, perform the
appropriate settings of the print server and clients.
Setting the print server
See “Using an additional driver” on page 59.
Setting the clients
See “With Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, or 2000” on page 63.
Note:
❏When sharing the printer, be sure to set EPSON Status Monitor 3 so that the shared printer can
be monitored on the print server. See “Order Online” on page 41.
❏The print server and clients should be set on the same network system, and they should be under
the same network management beforehand.
Using an additional driver
When the print server’s OS is Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, or 2000, you can install the
additional drivers on the server. The additional drivers are for client computers that have different
OS from the server.
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							Follow the steps below to set a Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, or 2000 as a print server,
then install the additional drivers.
Note:
You must access Windows XP, XP x64, or 2000 as the Administrators of the local machine.
1. For a Windows Vista or Vista x64 print server, click 
 Start, click Control Panel, then
double-click Printers.
For a Windows XP or XP x64 print server, click Start, point to Printers and Faxes.
For a Windows 2000 print server, click Start, point to Settings, then click Printers.
2. Right-click your printer’s icon, then click Sharing in the menu that appears.
For Windows Vista, click Change sharing options, then click Continue.
For Windows XP or XP x64, if the following menu appears, click either Network Setup
Wizard or If you understand the security risks but want to share printers without
running the wizard, click here.
In either case, follow the on-screen instructions.
3. For a Windows Vista, Vista x64, XP, or XP x64 print server, select Share this printer, then
type the name in the Share name box.
Note:
Do not use spaces or hyphens for the Share name, or an error may occur.
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