Epson Stylus Pro 4800 User Manual

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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 setttings 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 on page 92.
1. Follow steps 1 through 4 beginning on page 82. 
2. Click 
Custom and then click Advanced. 
You see a window like the following:
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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:
 High Speed for fast, bidirectional printing at lower quality. 
 Flip Horizontal for printing a mirror image of your file. Use with 
backlight film.
 Finest Detail for sharper edges when printing text, graphics, and 
line art.
 Edge Smoothing to improve the quality of low-resolution images.
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You see the following:
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...

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 Cut Method
 decreases the cutting blade pressure for thinner media, 
and adjusts the speed for thick media. You may need to experiment 
to determine the best setting for your paper.
 Platen Gap lets you fine-tune the setting for various paper 
thicknesses.
 Eject Roller Type lets you define the eject roller for printing with 
non-Epson media. You may need to experiment to determine the 
best setting for your paper.
8. Click 
Save Settings if you want to...

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1. On the Main tab, Choose the Media Type setting for the paper you have 
loaded in the printer. 
2. Choose 
Advanced B&W Photo for the Color setting. 
3. Click 
Custom, then click Advanced. You see this screen:
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4. You can adjust the following settings:
 Color Toning: Allows you to add tone (hue) to your black and 
white output. The default is Neutral, which will provide you with a 
neutral tonal scale print. You can also choose other popular presets 
such as Cool, Warm, and Sepia. Note that the presets will affect the 
target found in the Tone Color Circle.
Allows you to easily change the entire tonal scale of your 
black and white output. While 
Darker is the...

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Managing Print Jobs
Your printer comes with several 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. 
Using the Progress Meter
After you send a print job, the Progress Meter window appears:
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Setting Monitoring Preferences and Optimizing Print 
Speed
You can choose when and how you want to be notified of 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 and Progress utility to improve printing speed. 
1. Do one of the following:
Windows XP: Click Start and select Printers and Faxes. 
Right-click your...

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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 
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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...