Epson PictureMate User Manual

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Note: This setting remains in effect for all photos until you press and hold Cancel 
for 3 seconds or turn your PictureMate off. 
Cropping Your Photo
If you want to print only part of a photo, you can crop it to leave out the part you 
don’t want. Choose one photo to crop at a time. (See One Photo
 to choose One 
Photo
 from the Main Menu.) First you will print a template sheet for the photo 
showing different cropping areas; then you will select the one you want to print from 
that template. If you already have a reference template, you can skip to step 5.
 
1. On the Main Menu, press  or   to highlight 
More Options, then press OK. 
2. Press  or   to highlight 
Print Crop Template, then press OK. 
3. Press 
Print to print the template. 
Tip: The crop areas do not change, so you can print the template once and use it 
as a reference for all your photos. 
Your photo prints with a preview of the different cropping areas. 
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4. Choose the number for the area you want to print.
5. Press  or   to highlight 
Crop, then press OK. 
6. Press  or   to highlight the number you chose from the template, then press 
OK. 
7. Confirm the crop number you have selected. 
8. Continue with Confirming and Printing
 to print your photo. 
Note: This setting remains in effect for all photos until you press and hold Cancel 
for 3 seconds or turn your PictureMate off. 
Automatically Fixing Photo Appearance
Your PictureMate can automatically enhance or fix the appearance of your prints. 
1. On the Main Menu, press  or   to highlight 
More Options, then press OK. 
 
						

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2. Press  or   to highlight Auto Correct, then press OK. 
3. Press  or   to choose one of the options.
■Enhance - automatically adjusts photos using P.I.M. or Exif Print features in 
your digital photos (see your camera manual to see if it supports these 
features). This option is automatically selected if your photo contains P.I.M. 
or Exif Print information.
■Fix - use this if the photo you printed looks bad; corrects images that are too 
dark or too bright.
■None - turns off enhancements (default setting when the photo has no P.I.M. 
or Exif Print information).
4. Press 
OK. 
5. Continue with Confirming and Printing
 to print your photos. 
Note: This setting remains in effect for all photos until you press and hold Cancel 
for 3 seconds or turn your PictureMate off. 
Adding the Date or Time 
You can add the date and/or time your picture was originally taken to your photo 
when you print. 
1. On the Main Menu, press  or   to highlight 
More Options, then press OK. 
 
 
						

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2. To print the date, press  or   to highlight Date Stamp, then press OK. 
3. Press  or   to choose a setting:
■None (default; turns off the date stamp)
■yyyy.mmm.dd (2004.May.09)
■mmm.dd.yyyy (May.09.2004)
■dd.mmm.yyyy (09.May.2004)
4. Press 
OK. 
5. To print the time, press  or   to highlight 
Time Stamp, then press OK. 
6. Press  or   to choose a setting:
■None (default; turns off the time stamp)
■12-hour (03:00 for 3 pm)
■24-hour (15:00 for 3 pm)
7. Press 
OK. 
8. Press 
Print. 
 
						

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9. Continue with Confirming and Printing to print your photos. 
Note: This setting remains in effect for all photos until you press and hold Cancel 
for 3 seconds or turn your PictureMate off. 
Adjusting Printer Settings
You can adjust these settings on your PictureMate: 
■Resetting PictureMate Print Settings 
■Turning the PictureMate Print Wizard Off or On
■Turning Print Confirmation Off or On
■Adjusting the LCD Screen Contrast
Resetting PictureMate Print Settings 
You can reset the PictureMate print settings (such as layout, color effect, or crop 
settings) to the original, default settings. This won’t affect LCD contrast, print 
confirmation, or PictureMate Wizard settings. 
1. Press and hold 
Cancel for 3 seconds. 
You see this screen: 
2. Press 
OK to reset all the print settings. 
Note: PictureMate also resets its default settings when you turn it off and back 
on. 
 
						

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When you first insert a memory card, the PictureMate Print Wizard guides you to 
print a proof sheet, then to print some or all of your photos. 
You may turn this feature off and print directly from the Main Menu all the time, or 
if you turned the PictureMate Print Wizard off and you want to use it, you can turn it 
back on.
Note: If you usually print all the photos on your memory card, turn off the 
PictureMate Print Wizard. Then whenever you insert your memory card, you can 
print all your photos by just pressing Print.
1. On the Main Menu, press  or   to highlight More Options, then press OK. 
2. Press  or   to highlight 
Print Wizard, then press OK. 
3. Press  or   to choose 
On or Off, then press OK. 
Turning Print Confirmation Off or On
The Print Confirmation screen lets you make one last check of your photo selections 
before you print. You can turn this feature off (or back on). 
 
						

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When the Print Confirmation is On, you see a screen like this that lets you check 
settings before printing: 
When the Print Confirmation is Off, the printer prints without a final confirmation 
screen. 
1. On the Main Menu, press  or   to highlight 
More Options, then press OK. 
2. Press  or   to highlight 
Print Confirmation, then press OK. 
3. Press  or   to choose 
On or Off, then press OK. 
Adjusting the LCD Screen Contrast
1. On the Main Menu, press  or   to highlight More Options, then press OK.
 
						

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2. Press  or   to highlight Maintenance, then press OK.
3. Press  or   to highlight 
LCD Contrast, then press OK.
4. When you see this message, press 
OK to continue. 
5. Press  or   to adjust the contrast, then press 
OK. 
Printing From a PictBridge-enabled Digital 
Camera
You can connect your PictBridge-enabled digital camera to the back of PictureMate 
and use the camera to control printing. (See your camera’s documentation to see if it 
supports the PictBridge standard.) 
1. Make sure there are no memory cards in PictureMate’s memory card slots. The 
card light should be off. 
Note: If a memory card is inserted, the printer will read photos from the card, not 
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2. Connect your camera’s USB cable to the port on the back of PictureMate. 
3. Use your camera’s controls to print photos on PictureMate. See your camera 
documentation for instructions. 
Printing From an External CD, Zip Disk, or 
Flash Memory Drive
If you saved your photos to a CD, Zip disk, or flash memory (thumb) drive (see 
Saving Your Photos to an External CD-R/RW, Zip, or Flash Memory Drive
), you can 
connect the drive to the back of PictureMate and print just like you do when you 
insert a memory card. 
Tip: You can also print photos from a CD with pictures that you get from a photo 
processing lab. (Photos must be in JPEG format. Some CDs may not be 
supported.) 
1. Make sure there are no memory cards in PictureMate’s memory card slots. The 
card light should be off. 
Note: If a memory card is inserted, the printer will read photos from the card, not 
from an external drive. Remove the memory card to print photos on the drive. 
2. If PictureMate is connected to a computer, disconnect it or turn the computer off. 
 
						

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3. Connect your CD or Zip drive’s USB cable to the port on the back of 
PictureMate, or plug your flash memory drive into the USB port on the back of 
PictureMate. 
4. For a CD or Zip drive, insert a CD or Zip disk with photos into the drive. 
If you used PictureMate to save photos on the same CD-R, Zip disk, or flash 
memory drive more than once, it will have multiple folders. You see this message:
Press  or   to choose the folder where your photos are stored, then press 
OK. 
(The most recently saved folder has the largest number.)
5. PictureMate counts the photos on your drive, then shows one of the following 
messages: 
■If you see this message, go to Printing a Proof Sheet from the PictureMate 
Print Wizard and follow the instructions there to print your photos from the 
PictureMate Wizard.