Epson Aculaser M4000N User Manual

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Resizing printouts
This function allows you to enlarge or reduce your document.
For Windows users
1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.
2. Select the Zoom Options check box.
3. If you want to resize pages automatically to fit the output paper, select the desired paper size 
from the Output Paper drop-down list.
If you want to resize pages by a specified magnification, select the Zoom To check box, then 
specify the percentage. You can also select the output paper size.
4. Select Upper Left (to print reduced page image at upper left corner of the paper) or Center (to 
print reduced page image with centering) for Location setting.
Note:
This setting is not available when you select Zoom To check box.
5. Click OK.
 
						

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Printing watermarks
This function allows you to print a text-based or image-based watermark on your document.
For Windows users
1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.
2. Select a watermark that you want to use from the Watermark drop-down list.
3. If you want to make detailed settings, click Watermark Settings, and make appropriate 
settings. For details about each setting, see online help.
4. Click OK.
Making a new watermark
For Windows users
1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.
2. Click New/Delete.
3. Select Text or BMP and type a name for the new watermark in the Name box.
 
						

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4. If you select Text, type the watermark text in the Text box. If you select BMP, click Browse, 
select the BMP file you want to use, then click Open.
5. Type the watermark name in the Name box.
6. Click Save. Your watermark will appear in the List box.
Note:
❏To edit the saved text watermark, select it from the List box, then follow the step 4 to 6.
❏To remove the saved watermark, select it from the List box, then click Delete. After removing it, be 
sure to click OK to close the dialog box.
7. Click OK.
Note:
❏You can register up to 10 original watermarks.
❏The saved watermarks can only be used with the printer driver you saved them to. Even if multiple 
printer names are set for a printer driver, the settings can be available only for the printer name in which 
you saved the settings.
❏When sharing the printer on a network, you cannot create a user defined watermark at the client.
Printing headers and footers
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 Windows users
1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.
 
						

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2. Select the Header/Footer check box, then click Header/Footer Settings.
3. Select the items from the drop-down list.
Note:
If you select Collate Number, the number of copies is printed. When using the Reserve Job function, do 
not select Collate Number.
4. Click OK.
Printing with an overlay
This function allows you to print a standard form or letterhead onto the original document.
Note:
❏This function is for Windows only.
❏The overlay function is available only when High Quality (Printer) is selected for the Printing Mode 
in the Extended Settings dialog box from the Optional Settings tab.
Creating an overlay
1. Open the file that you want to create an overlay.
2. From the application, access the printer driver. For details, see “Accessing the printer driver” 
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3. Click the Advanced Layout tab.
4. Select the Form Overlay check box.
5. Select Create Overlay Data, then click More Settings. The Create Form dialog box appears.
6. Type the form name in the Form Name box and its description in the Description box.
7. Select Foreground Document or Background Document to specify whether the overlay will 
be printed as foreground or background of the document.
8. Select the Assign to Paper Source check box to display the form name in the Paper Source 
drop-down list on the Basic Settings tab.
9. Click OK in the Create Form dialog box.
10. Click OK (For Windows 2000, click Apply) in the Advanced Layout tab.
Note:
To change the settings of the overlay form data you created, access the printer driver and repeat all the steps 
above. Note that on the step 5, select Overlay Print, then click Edit Form.
 
						

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Printing an overlaid document
You can select the registered form data from the Paper Source drop-down list on the Basic Settings 
tab. For registering form data in the Paper Source, see step 8 in “Creating an overlay” on page 44. 
If overlay form data is not registered in the Paper Source or if you want to make detailed settings, 
follow the steps below.
1. Open the file to print with overlay data.
2. From the application, access the printer driver. For details, see “Accessing the printer driver” 
on page 172.
3. Click the Advanced Layout tab.
4. Select the Form Overlay check box.
5. Select the Overlay Print check box, then click More Settings. The Form Selection dialog box 
appears.
6. Make appropriate settings. For details about each setting, see online help.
Note:
If you cannot select the form from the application, access the printer driver from the operating system. 
For details, see “Accessing the printer driver” on page 172.
7. Click OK in the Form Selection dialog box.
8. Click OK in the Advanced Layout tab.
9. Click OK (For Windows 2000, click Print).
Saving an overlaid form pre-settings
This function allows you to save the settings you made from “Creating an overlay” on page 44.
1. From the Form Selection dialog box, click Save/Delete. To open the dialog box, see “Printing 
an overlaid document” on page 46.
2. Type the pre-settings name in the Form Pre-Settings Name box, then click Save. Your 
pre-settings name will appear in the Form Pre-Settings drop-down list in the Form Selection 
dialog box.
3. Click OK. Your pre-settings name will appear in the Pre-Settings drop-down list in the 
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Note:
❏To delete an overlaid form pre-setting, follow the step 1, select the pre-settings name you want to 
delete from Form Pre-Settings drop-down list, click Delete, and then click OK.
❏You can save up to 20 pre-settings.
Printing with an overlay (with the storage)
This function allows you to register the overlay form data on the storage. The storage is the 
optional Hard Disk Drive installed in the printer.
This function is available only when the following conditions are satisfied.
❏The optional Hard Disk Drive is installed on the printer.
❏Update the Printer Option Info Automatically is selected under the Optional Settings tab on 
the printer driver.
❏High Quality (Printer) mode is set.
❏The printer is connected via a network.
❏You are using Windows.
❏EPSON Status Monitor is installed on the computer.
❏Internet Explorer is running on the computer.
Register the overlay form data on the storage
Note:
The form name must use only the characters shown below. A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, and ! ’ ) ( - _ %
1. Create the overlay form data. For details, see “Creating an overlay” on page 44.
2. Log in to Windows XP, XP x64, 2000, Server 2003, or Server 2003 x64 as an administrator.
3. From your operating system, access the printer driver. For details, see “Accessing the printer 
driver” on page 172.
4. Click the Optional Settings tab.
5. Click Register. The Authentication dialog box appears.
6. Enter the password, and then click OK. 
The Register to Storage dialog box appears.
 
						

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7. Select the form name from the Form Names list, and then click Register.
Note:
❏Only form names that can be registered appear on the Form Name list.
❏You can print the form list to click Print List.
8. Click Back to close the Register to Storage dialog box.
9. Click OK.
Printing a overlaid document
1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.
2. Select the Form Overlay check box.
3. Select the Overlay Print check box, then click More Settings. The Form Selection dialog box 
appears.
4. Select HDD in Printer in the Current Source drop-down list.
5. Make appropriate settings. For details about each setting, see online help.
6. Click OK in the Form Selection dialog box.
7. Click OK in the Advanced Layout tab.
Delete the overlay form data on the storage
1. Follow the step 2 to 5 of “Register the overlay form data on the storage” on page 47.
2. Click Delete. The Authentication dialog box appears.
3. Enter the password, and then click OK. 
The Delete from Storage dialog box appears.
4. If you delete all overlay form data, click the All button, then click Delete. If you want to delete 
some specific data, click the Selected button, enter the form name in the Form Name edit box, 
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Note:
❏If you need the list of the registered overlay form data, click Print List to print it and confirm the 
form name. Also, if you need a sample print-out of the form data, enter the form name and click the 
Print Sample button.
❏You can use the Browse button if the printer is connected through a network. Form names 
registered to the storage are displayed by clicking the Browse button.
5. Click Back.
6. Click OK.
Printing the copy-protected document
This function allows you to print a document as a copy-protected document. When you try to copy 
a copy-protected document, “COPY” is printed several times on the document.
Note:
❏Epson will not guarantee to secure from information leakage and any other damage by using this 
function, nor hidden letters appear in all cases.
❏Screen-tone may be too dark, hidden letters may not be printed on the entire print, or hidden letters may 
not appear when photocopied depends on the models, settings, and combinations of photocopiers, fax 
machine, input device such as digital cameras and scanners, output device such as printers; printer 
driver settings of this product; condition of consumables such as toner and output paper type.
 
						

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For Windows users
1. Click the Advanced Layout tab.
2. Select Copy from the Anti-Copy Pattern drop-down list.
3. Select Front or Back to select if “COPY” is printed in front or back of the images in the 
document.
4. Click OK.
Printing Web Pages to Fit Your Paper Size
This function allows you to make Web pages fit to your paper size when printing. Install EPSON 
Web-To-Page from the printer software CD-ROM.
Note:
This software is not available for Windows Vista, XP x64, and Mac OS X.