Epson Stylus Photo 1200 User Manual

							 

 

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You can speed up the way your printer software processes multiple-copy 
print jobs using options in the Speed & Progress dialog box. You can also 
optimize your printer port for the fastest data transfer rate for EPSON 
printers, if your computer supports such transfers. 
To access the dialog box, you must open your printer software from the 
Windows Printers utility as described below.
1Click Start, point to Settings, then click Printers.
2Right-click the EPSON Stylus Photo 1200 printer icon and select 
Properties (Windows 95 and 98) or Document Defaults 
(Windows NT) from the menu.
3Click the Utility tab. You see the Utility menu:
The Speed & 
Progress button is 
grayed out when you 
open your printer 
software through an 
application. You can 
access the Speed & 
Progress dialog box 
only through the 
Windows Printers 
utility as described 
here.
Speed & 
Progress 
buttonUtility tab
 
						

							 

 

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  4Click the Speed & Progress button. You see this dialog box:
5Select High Speed Copies to speed up printing of multiple copies by 
creating hard drive space for the copies. If you have multiple hard 
drives, you can select a high speed copy folder for storing the copies. 
6Select EPSON Printer Port (not available on Windows NT 4.0) to 
optimize the transfer rate of your printer port for EPSON printers. You 
see one of these messages beneath the EPSON Printer Port option:
wHigh speed (DMA) transfer enabled tells you that you’re already 
using fast DMA transfer mode.
wFor higher data transfer rates, use DMA transfer tells you that 
you can speed up printing by enabling DMA transfers on your 
system, if your computer supports them. See your computer 
documentation for instructions on using DMA transfers.
7Click OK to close the Speed & Progress dialog box and return to the 
Utility menu. Then click OK again to exit your printer software.
Select a folder for storing 
print data to speed up 
printing of multiple copies. 
(You don’t see this box if you 
have only one hard drive.)Not available with 
Windows NT
If you see no 
message beneath the 
EPSON Printer Port 
option, you cannot 
enable DMA transfers 
on your system.
 
						

							 

 

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##  -.   Your Macintosh printer software includes two print job management 
utilities: EPSON Monitor3 and Status Monitor. It also includes a 
Configuration utility for setting up print monitoring options.
wMonitor3 lets you check the progress of your current print job and set 
priorities and print times for documents waiting to print. You can also 
cancel, pause, or restart a print job. See Using Monitor3
 for details.
wThe Status Monitor lets you check the level of ink in your printer. See 
Using the Macintosh Status Monitor
 for details.
wThe Configuration utility lets you choose how you want to be notified of 
printer errors and where you want print job files stored. See Selecting 
Configuration Options
 for details.

 %If you turned on background printing, Monitor3 starts automatically when 
you send a print job to the printer. You can then use the Monitor3 dialog 
box to check on your print jobs and cancel, pause, or restart them.
To use this utility, you need to turn on background printing and increase 
the memory allocation for Monitor3, as described in Setting Up Monitor3
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When background 
printing is turned off, 
you can cancel your 
print job by pressing 
the   and . (period) 
keys.You can also turn on 
background printing 
from your printer 
software; see Using Background Printing on the Macintosh
 for 
instructions.
 
						

							 

 

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 (1Open the Chooser from the Apple menu and select the SP 1200 icon. 
Then select the port you’re using.
2Under Background Printing, click On and close the Chooser.
3To increase the memory allocation, select EPSON Monitor3 in the 
Extensions folder in your System folder. Then choose Get Info from 
the File menu and set the Memory Requirements to 2000K or 3000K, 
depending on your system’s available RAM.  )* % (After you send a print job, you see the EPSON Monitor3 dialog box:
You may need to 
perform different or 
additional steps to 
allocate memory, 
depending on your 
Macintosh OS 
version; see your 
Macintosh 
documentation for 
more information.
Current print 
job
Jobs waiting 
to printClick to set 
priorities or print 
times for waiting 
print jobs
Progress bar
 
						

							 

 

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 	 The progress bar tracks the progress of the current print job. To pause, 
cancel, or restart a print job (either the current one or any job waiting to 
print), click the document’s name to highlight it. Then click one of the 
following buttons: 
wclick   to cancel 
wclick   to pause
wclick   to restart 
If you want to change the printing priority of a print job or set a specific 
time for it to print, click Show details at the bottom of the window. The 
Priority list becomes active:If the Monitor3 dialog 
box does not appear, 
click the current 
application icon at the 
right end of the menu 
bar and select EPSON 
Monitor3 from the 
drop-down menu.
If you see a stop sign 
icon and the message 
Print queue on hold 
in the EPSON 
Monitor3 dialog box, 
select Start print 
queue from the Printer 
menu to release the 
queue and resume 
printing.
Priority list box
Settings selected for 
the highlighted print job 
 
						

							 

 

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 Click the name of the document whose job priority you want to change. 
Then click the Priority list box and select one of the following settings:
wNormal prints the job in the order it’s received
wUrgent moves the job before any Normal priority jobs in the print 
queue
wHold keeps the job in the print queue until you’re ready to release it for 
printing by clicking the  restart icon
wPrint Time opens the Set Print Time dialog box:
Enter the time and date when you want the document to print, then 
click OK. 
 
						

							 

 

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 %You can use the Status Monitor to check the level of ink in your printer. 
Follow these steps:
1Choose Page Setup or Print from the File menu in your application. 
You see the printer settings dialog box.
2Click the  Utility icon. You see the Utility menu:
For information 
about these utilities, 
see Maintenance and Transportation
 
						

							 

 

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  3Click the EPSON StatusMonitor icon. The software checks the 
amount of ink remaining in the printer and displays the Status Monitor 
window:
4To recheck the ink level, click the Update button. To close the Status 
Monitor, click OK.
Click to recheck the 
ink level
 
						

							 

 

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 You can configure the way you want the printer to handle error and 
warning messages, ink level checks, and temporary spool folders in the 
Configuration Settings dialog box. Follow these steps:
1Choose Page Setup or Print from the File menu in your application. 
You see a printer settings dialog box.
2Click the   Utility icon. You see the Utility menu.
3Click the Configuration button. You see the Configuration Settings 
dialog box:Select how you want your 
system to notify you of 
errors and warnings
Select where you want print 
job files storedClick here to check for 
errors and/or the ink level 
before printing
Click here to return to the default settings
 
						

							 

 

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  4Select the following configuration options:
wError notification lets you select whether you want your system to 
beep and display error message text or just display text if your 
printer encounters an error.
wWarning lets you choose whether warning messages beep and 
display text or just display text.
wTemporary Spool folder and Temporary High Speed Copies 
folder let you select the folders on your hard disk that store the 
temporary print job and high speed multiple-copy print job files 
created when you send a job to the printer. Click the Select button 
to change to a different folder.
wClick the Check for errors before starting to print checkbox if you 
want your software to check for errors before starting your print job.
wClick the Check the ink level before starting to print checkbox if 
you want your software to check for a low ink condition before 
starting your print job.
5When you’ve finished changing your configuration options, click OK to 
return to the Utility menu.Warning messages, 
such as low ink, allow 
printing to continue; 
error messages are 
more serious and 
cause printing to stop.