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Choosing Advanced Print Options
The advanced settings give you complete control over your printing 
environment. If you are using color management settings in Photoshop or 
another application, it is very important to access the advanced settings and 
turn off color management in the printer driver, as described below. If 
necessary, you can also control the ink density by using the paper 
configuration settings as described on page 72.
1. Access your printer driver and select your basic options as described 
beginning on page 66.
2. Click 
Custom, then click the Advanced button that appears. You see a 
window like this one:
3. If necessary, you can change your 
Media Type and Color settings.
These settings 
give you different 
options on the 
lower part of the 
screen
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4. Choose one of the following Print Quality settings:

 Normal - 360dpi 
 Fine - 720dpi 
 SuperFine - 1440dpi 
 SuperPhoto - 2880dpi 
5. Choose any of the following advanced options:
 High Speed for fast, bidirectional printing. For higher quality, 
make sure this option is not selected.
 Flip Horizontal for printing a mirror image of your file. Use with 
backlight film.
 Finest Detail for sharper edges on vector-based data including text, 
graphics, and line art.
 Edge Smoothing to improve the quality of low-resolution images.
6. Choose one of the following Printer Color Management settings:
 Color Controls to choose from four Color Adjustment modes and 
three Gamma settings. You can also specify individual values for 
Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and CMY inks. 
 PhotoEnhance allows you to correct noise and other problems 
common to digital camera images or choose special tone and effect 
settings. 
 Off (No Color Adjustment) to disable color management in the 
printer driver. Choose this setting when using a color-managed 
workflow in Photoshop or other software applications.
to adjust colors based on the printer’s ICC profile, using the 
Image Color Matching system and the printer’s Epson Standard 
profile. In most cases, you will get better results by applying color 
management in your application, rather than in the printer driver.
7. If you are using non-Epson media and you need to fine-tune its 
performance, click the 
Paper Config button. 
Note: The Print Quality 
settings available depend 
on the Media Type you 
selected. Choose lower 
print quality for faster 
printing, or SuperPhoto - 
2880dpi for best quality.
Ti p :  If you turn off color 
management, you can 
still control the ink 
density, as described 
on page 73. 
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You see a window like this one:
8. Select the correct settings to match your ICC profile. These settings 
override any paper configuration settings you may have made using the 
printer’s control panel.
 Color Density lets you control the ink saturation level (for example, 
when you turn off color management in your printer software).
 Drying Time per Print Head Pass lets you print with non-Epson 
media and avoid smearing the ink. You can make the print head 
wait up to 5 seconds after each pass to allow ink to dry on the page. 
 Paper Feed Adjustment helps reduce banding. Choose a lower 
value if you see white lines on your prints, or a higher value if you 
see dark lines.
 Paper Thickness helps reduce vertical banding and creates a 
sharper image when printing on unusually thick or thin paper.
 Platen Gap lets you fine-tune the setting for unusually thick or thin 
paper.
When you’re finished selecting Paper Configuration settings, click 
OK.
9. Click 
Save Settings if you want to have your advanced settings 
available for reuse. Then type a name for the group of settings and click 
Save. The name is added to your list of custom settings.
10. When you’re finished setting advanced printer options, click 
OK.
Note:  You may need to 
change the Color Density 
setting if your custom 
profile was created to 
optimize D-max and color 
gamut.
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Choosing Advanced Black and White Photo 
Settings
Advanced Black and White Photo mode allows you to easily produce neutral 
and toned black-and-white prints using your Epson driver and offers an 
alternative black-and-white workflow. Whether your photo is color or 
grayscale, you can use this unique screening and color management 
technology to create stunning black-and-white prints. This mode is only 
available when printing on select media types.
1. On the Main tab, choose the Media Type setting for the paper you 
loaded in the printer. 
2. Choose 
Advanced B&W Photo as the Color setting. 
Note: If you are printing 
from Photoshop, make 
sure you turn off 
Photoshop’s color 
management when using 
Advanced Black and 
White mode. There are 
no profiles associated 
with this screening and 
color management 
technology. 
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3. Click Custom, then click Advanced. You see a window like this one:
4. Choose the settings that are best for your photo. You can use the 
preview image on the screen as a guide. 
 Color Toning allows you to add a tone (hue) to your 
black-and-white output. The default is 
Neutral, which produces a 
neutral tone scale print. You can also choose other popular presets 
such as Cool, Warm, and Sepia. The presets will affect the target 
color used in the Tone color circle.
 allows you to easily change the entire tonal scale of your 
black-and-white output. While 
Darker is the default setting, you 
may see better results if you choose 
Dark. 
 Brightness adjusts the overall lightness and darkness of your image.
 Contrast adjusts the difference between the light and dark areas of 
your image.
 Shadow and Highlight Tonality allow you to control tonality only 
in the shadow or highlight areas of your image. 
 Max Optical Density adjusts the overall density or focus of the 
print. To create a soft focus print, set the density to lower.
Tone color 
circle
Note: The preview image 
will always be the same 
image and is not color 
managed. It is just to be 
used to give you a level 
of feedback as you make 
changes.
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 Highlight Point Shift
 helps reduce gloss differential by adding 
density to the highlights of images prone to gloss differential.
 Tone color circle lets you customize the tone (hue) you selected to 
add to your black-and-white print. Click an area in the circle or 
enter values in the Horizontal and Vertical fields to adjust the tone. 
The closer you select to the edge of the wheel, the more color you 
will add to your black-and-white print.
Managing Print Jobs
Your printer comes with utilities that let you check on your print jobs and 
cancel, pause, or restart them. 
The Progress Meter opens each time you send a print job. Status Monitor 3, 
which appears on the taskbar when you print, lets you check the printer’s 
status and monitor print jobs. 
Managing Prints Using the Progress Meter
After you send a print job, the Progress Meter window appears:
You can use the buttons to cancel, pause, or resume your print job. You can 
also check your ink status and view printing tips. 
If you don’t want the Progress Meter to appear, you can turn it off. See 
page 78 for instructions.
Click to cancel printing
Click to pause/resume 
printing May not appear if you 
are printing over a 
network
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Setting Monitoring Preferences and Optimizing Print 
Speed
You can choose when and how you want to be notified of printing problems, 
whether you want a Status Monitor 3 icon to appear on your Windows 
taskbar, and whether you want to allow monitoring by other users who share 
the printer. You can also use the Speed & Progress utility to improve 
printing speed and override pixel limitations when you print large images. 
1. Do one of the following:
Windows XP: Click Start and select Printers and Faxes. 
Right-click your printer icon and select 
Printing Preferences. 
Windows 2000: Click Start, point to Settings, then select 
Printers. Right-click your printer icon and select Properties, 
Document Defaults, or Printing Preferences.
2. Click the 
Utility tab, then click the Speed & Progress button. You see 
the Speed & Progress window:
If you want to disable 
display of the Progress 
Meter during printing, 
you can click the 
Show Progress Meter 
checkbox to deselect it.
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3. Select from the following options:
 High Speed Copies speeds up printing of multiple copies of the 
same document using hard disk space as a cache. If you have 
multiple hard drives, you can select a different drive to spool to.
 Show Progress Meter lets you control whether or not the Progress 
Meter is displayed when you send a print job. 
 Always spool RAW datatype lets you spool documents using the 
RAW format instead of the EMF (metafile) format. Because the 
RAW format requires fewer resources, printing is faster and you can 
avoid certain problems, such as insufficient memory or disk space.
 Page Rendering Mode speeds printing by rendering the entire 
page. Use this setting if print speed is extremely slow or the print 
head stops for a few minutes while printing. Printing will take 
longer to start.
 Coarse Rendering allows you to override the length or width 
limitations in applications (such as Photoshop) that restrict the 
number of pixels you can print.
 allows large or complex vector graphics to print 
faster in Adobe Acrobat® or any other non-image based application.
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4. Click the Monitoring Preferences button. You see the Monitoring 
Preferences window:
5. Select the Notification options you want to use. 
6. If you want to have the Status Monitor 3 icon appear in your Windows 
taskbar, click the 
Shortcut Icon checkbox. Then select the icon to use. 
After you enable the shortcut, you can simply double-click the icon to 
open the Status Monitor 3 window or right-click it, then select 
Monitoring Preferences in the pop-up menu.
7. Select 
Allow monitoring of shared printers if your printer is shared 
and you want to let other users monitor it. 
8. Click 
OK to save your settings.
9. Click 
OK to close the Speed & Progress window and return to the 
Utility menu. Then click 
OK again to exit the Printers utility.
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