Epson Stylus Pro 4400 User Manual

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To access the online help, click Print or Page Setup on the File 
menu of your application, and click   Help. 
Checking Printer Status and Managing Print 
Jobs
Using the EPSON StatusMonitor
EPSON StatusMonitor regularly monitors the printer status. If a 
printer error is detected, you will be informed with an error 
message. You can also use this utility to check ink levels before 
printing.
Accessing EPSON StatusMonitor
To access EPSON StatusMonitor, follow the steps below.
1. Click Print or Page Setup on the File menu of your 
application.
 
						

							162Printing with Mac OS 9.x 2. Click  Remaining Ink Level, or click   Utility. If you click 
 Utility, click EPSON StatusMonitor in the Utility dialog. 
The EPSON StatusMonitor dialog appears.
EPSON StatusMonitor informs you of the amount of ink 
remaining and the free space of the maintenance tank as of the 
time the StatusMonitor was opened. To update the information, 
click Update.
 
						

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Making Configuration Settings
You can select the way the EPSON StatusMonitor utility monitors 
your printer, and the way you will be notified of information. To 
make Configuration settings, click Configuration in the Utility 
dialog. The Configuration Settings dialog appears.
You can make the following settings in this dialog.
Error notification Choose how the EPSON StatusMonitor 
notifies you in case of an error.
Warning Choose how the EPSON StatusMonitor 
notifies you if a warning message becomes 
necessary.
Temporary  Spool  folder Choose the folder for temporary spooling of 
print data.
Temporary High Speed 
Copies folderChoose the folders for multiple-copy print 
data storage.
 
						

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Using EPSON Monitor IV
After you send a print job to the printer, you can use the EPSON 
Monitor IV utility to check, cancel, or change the priority of print 
job that are queued for printing. This utility also shows the status 
of the job currently being printed.
Accessing EPSON Monitor IV
To access EPSON Monitor IV, follow the steps below.
Data will be sent to the 
printer after being stored 
on your disk.Select this check box to prevent horizontal 
banding in your printout. By default, 
graphics data is sent by the computer to the 
printer in rectangular bands, which 
prevents the printer from having to 
reconstruct an entire data in memory 
before printing it. Selecting this check box 
will make the computer temporarily store 
the data on its hard drive and then send it 
to the printer as a whole to prevent banding 
in the printed image.
Check for errors before 
starting to print.Select this check box if you want to check 
for errors before starting to print.
Check the ink level 
before starting to print.Select this check box if you want to check 
the ink level before starting to print.
 
						

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1. Select On as the Background Printing setting in the Chooser 
or in the Background Printing dialog.
2. Send a print job to the printer.
3. Select EPSON Monitor IV from the Application menu at the 
right end of the menu bar. The EPSON Monitor IV dialog 
appears.
Note:
You can also open EPSON Monitor IV dialog by double-clicking the 
EPSON Monitor IV icon in the Extensions folder.
 
						

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Managing print jobs using EPSON Monitor IV
You can manage the print jobs in the following ways.
❏Use the following buttons to hold, resume, and delete print 
jobs. Select the print job that you want to manage, and click 
the appropriate button. 
❏Click Stop Print Queue to stop printing. Once this button is 
pressed, the name of the button turns to Start Print Queue. 
Click Start Print Queue to resume printing.
❏Use the following buttons to start the printer utilities.
❏Double-click a file in the list to preview it. 
Note:
This function is disabled when you are printing the ESC/P 
command file.
❏Double-click Copies to change the number of copies to print 
out.
Hold Pauses printing and keep the current 
print job at the top of the print queue.
Resume Resumes printing.
Delete Stops printing and deletes print job 
from the print queue.
Print Head 
CleaningStarts the Head Cleaning utility
Remaining 
Ink LevelStarts EPSON StatusMonitor, which 
displays the amount of ink remaining 
and the free space of the 
maintenance tank
 
						

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❏Click the Show details arrow to open an extension at the 
bottom of the EPSON Monitor IV dialog. The extension 
displays detailed information on the selected data’s printer 
software settings.
Changing print job priority
To change the priority of print jobs in a print queue, follow the 
steps below.
Note:
You can also change the priority of print jobs that had print times 
previously set in the Background Printing dialog.
1. Select the print job that you want to change the priority in the 
Document Name.
 
						

							168Printing with Mac OS 9.x 2. Click the Show details arrow to open an extension at the 
bottom of the EPSON Monitor IV dialog. 
3. Select Urgent, Normal, Hold, or Print Time from the Priority 
pull-down menu.
Sharing Your Printer
This section describes how to share your printer so that other 
computers on a network can use it.
The computer on a network can share the printer that is directly 
connected to one of them. The computer that is directly connected 
to the printer is the printer server, and the other computers are 
the clients which need permission to share the printer with the 
printer server. The clients share the printer via the printer server.
Note:
To connect your printer directly to a network without setting it up as a 
shared printer, consult your network administrator.
 
						

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Setting up your printer as a shared printer 
To share a printer connected directly to your computer with other 
computers on an AppleTalk network, follow the steps below.
1. Turn on the printer.
2. Select Chooser from the Apple menu and click the printer’s 
icon. Select the port to which the printer is connected.
3. Click Setup. The Printer Sharing Setup dialog appears.
4. Select Share this Printer, and type the printer name and 
password information as needed.
 
						

							170Printing with Mac OS 9.x 5. Click OK. The name of the shared printer appears in the port 
list in the Chooser.
6. Close the Chooser.
Accessing the shared printer
To access the shared printer from another computer on the 
network, follow the steps below.
1. Turn on your printer.
2. On each computer from which you want to access the printer, 
select Chooser from the Apple menu. Click your printers 
icon and select the printer port you want to use from the Select 
a printer port box on the right. You can only select from the 
printers connected to your current AppleTalk zone.