Epson Stylus Pro 9890 User Manual

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Editing Printer Driver Settings
1. Click the Utility tab, then select Menu Arrangement.
2. Select the item you want to edit. You can do the following:
Drag and drop the items to rearrange them
Add or delete groups
Move unused items into the Not Display group
3. When you’re finished, click 
Save.
 

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Managing Print Jobs
Your printer comes with two 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. You can control how these programs work 
using the 
Speed and Progress and Monitoring Preferences utilities.
Using the Progress Meter
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Optimizing Print Speed
You can use the Speed and Progress utility to improve printing speed.
1. Click the 
Utility tab, then click the Speed and Progress button. You 
see this window:
2. 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 in 
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 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 
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Setting Monitoring Preferences
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.
1. Click the 
Utility tab, then click the Monitoring Preferences button. 
You see this window:
2. Select the notification options you want to use if various printing events 
occur.
3. If you want to have the...

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For the most precise color in your prints, you can use profiles designed 
specifically for your printer model and paper type. Basic profiles are installed 
with your printer driver. For a list of the profiles and their corresponding 
media types, see page 192 (roll paper types) or page 197 (cut sheet paper 
types).
Assigning a profile to your image doesn’t alter it, only the interpretation of it 
by your software and how it appears on your monitor and in a printout. This 
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You see this window:
3. Select 
U.S. Prepress Defaults or North America Prepress 2 from 
the 
Settings menu to set Adobe RGB (1998) as the color space. Click 
OK.
4. Open the photo you want to print.
If you see an Embedded Profile Mismatch message, select 
Use the 
embedded profile
 and click OK. 
If you see a Missing Profile message, select 
Assign working RGB: 
Adobe RGB (1998)
 and click OK.
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6. Select File, then click Print or Print with Preview.
7. Click 
More Options or Show More Options, then select Color 
Management
.
8. Click 
Page Setup, select page settings as necessary, and click OK.
9. Under 
Color Handling, select Let Photoshop Determine Colors or 
Photoshop Manages Colors.
10. Under 
Profile or Printer Profile, select a profile for your printer and 
the paper you’ll use, such as 
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Selecting Print Settings and Printing
1. Click the Print button, select Stylus Pro 7890 or Stylus Pro 9890, 
and select 
Printer Settings or Print Settings.
2. Select the 
Media Type setting for your paper (see page 104).
3. Set the rest of the print settings you want to use (beginning on page 87).
4. Make sure Color Mode is set to 
Off (No Color Management).
5. Click 
Print to print your photo.
Note: Make sure that you 
select Off (No Color 
Adjustment) or Off (No...