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Page 2 Copyright Notice All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior w...

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Page 3 Contents Introduction 9 Windows System Requirements 10 Macintosh System Requirements 12 Printer Parts 14 How To Use Your Manuals 15 Warnings, Cautions, Notes, and Tips 16 ENERGY STAR Compliance 16 Year 2000 Ready 17 Important Safety Ins...

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Page 4 Advanced Printing 33 Using Custom Project Types 34 Customizing Print Quality and Special Effects 37 Customizing Color Settings 41 Using PhotoEnhance3 or Digital Camera Correction Mode 42 Using Custom Color Management Modes 43 Using a Color...

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Page 5 Printing on Special Media 82 Selecting Special Media 83 Media Loading and Handling Guidelines 85 Letterhead, Preprinted Forms, and Legal-size Paper 86 EPSON Photo Quality Glossy Paper, Film, and Transparencies 86 Envelopes 88 EPSON Photo P...

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Page 6 Managing Print Jobs on a Macintosh 114 Using Monitor3 115 Using the Macintosh Status Monitor 118 Selecting Configuration Options 120 Maintenance and Transportation 122 Replacing an Ink Cartridge 123 Removing and Installing Ink Cartridges ...

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Page 7 Troubleshooting 135 Diagnosing Problems 136 Checking the Control Panel Lights 137 Running a Printer Operation Check 138 Confirming the Printer ID Number 139 Improving Print Quality 140 Solving Printing Problems 146 Solving Printer Softwar...

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Page 8 Specifications 167 Printing 167 Paper 168 Ink Cartridges 172 Mechanical 173 Electrical 174 Environmental 174 Safety Approvals 175 DOS Support 175 Control Panel Settings 176 Character Tables 177 Interfaces 178 Index 180 ...

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Page 9 Introduction Your EPSON Stylus ® COLOR 740 printer is the ideal output device for business graphics, layout proofs, digital photography, or any project you create on your computer. With resolutions up to 1440 by 720 dpi and EPSON’s uni...

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Introduction Page 10 ◗ How To Use Your Manuals ◗ ENERGY STAR Compliance ◗ Year 2000 Ready ◗ Important Safety Instructions Windows System Requirements To use your printer and its software with a PC, your system should have: ◗ An IBM ® co...

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Introduction Page 11 ◗ For parallel connection, a high-speed, bidirectional, IEEE-1284 compliant parallel cable (6 to 10 feet long). The cable must have a D-SUB, 25-pin, male connector for your computer and a 36-pin, Centronics ® compatible co...

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Introduction Page 12 Macintosh System Requirements To use your printer and its software with a Macintosh, your system should have: ◗ One of the following Macintosh models: LC475, LC575, LC630 Quadra series Centris series PowerBook ® series (190,...

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Introduction Page 13 ◗ Double-speed CD-ROM drive (quad-speed or faster recommended) for installing the printer software ◗ For serial connection, an ImageWriter ® II serial cable or equivalent (8-pin mini DIN male/male, Belkin F2V024 recommen...

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Introduction Page 14 Printer Parts paper support printer cover output tray output tray extensions edge guides sheet feeder paper thickness lever control panel ink cartridge holders ...

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Introduction Page 15 How To Use Your Manuals To set up your printer and install the printer software, see the Start Here card. This manual contains the following information: Basic Printing covers the basics of printing with Windows or Macint...

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Introduction Page 16 Warnings, Cautions, Notes, and Tips You’ll find this information throughout your manual: Warnings must be followed carefully to avoid bodily injury. Cautions must be observed to avoid damage to your equipment. Notes contain imp...

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Introduction Page 17 Year 2000 Ready Your EPSON printer is Year 2000 Ready . However, be sure the other parts of your computer system are also ready for the year 2000. Important Safety Instructions Before using your printer, read the following saf...

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Introduction Page 18 ◗ Place the printer near a wall outlet where the plug can be easily unplugged. Placez l’imprimante près d’une prise de contacte où la fiche peut être débranchée facilement. ◗ Do not let the power cord become damage...

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Introduction Page 19 ◗ Keep ink cartridges out of the reach of children. ◗ Do not dismantle the ink cartridges or try to refill them. This could result in damage to the print head. ◗ Once you install an ink cartridge, do not open the clamp or ...

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Page 20 Basic Printing It’s easy to print all your color and monochrome documents with your EPSON Stylus COLOR 740. First set up your printer and install the software, following the instructions in the Start Here card. Read this chapter to fin...

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Basic Printing Page 21 Setting Printer Options from Windows Applications This section describes the settings you’ll need to check for all your everyday printouts. See Advanced Printing for information about advanced settings for special print job...

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Basic Printing Page 22 You then see the printer settings dialog box: 4 Click the Main tab if necessary. Then choose the Media Type you want to print on from the following list: ◗ Plain paper ◗ 360 dpi Ink Jet Paper ◗ Photo Quality Ink Jet Pape...

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Basic Printing Page 23 The type of paper you choose determines the print quality (resolution) you can use. It’s very important to select the correct setting for your paper. If you’re not sure which to choose, see Selecting Special Media. 5 Cho...

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Basic Printing Page 24 While your document is printing, a window appears showing the printer status and the progress of your print job. See Checking Printer Status for more information. Setting Default Printer Options When you change printer settin...

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Basic Printing Page 25 Setting Default Options in Windows 3.1 1 Double-click the Control Panel icon in the Main group. 2 Double-click the Printers icon. 3 Select EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 from the list of printers and click Setup. You see the printer...

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Basic Printing Page 26 Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT 4.0 After you send a print job in Windows 95, 98, or NT, the Progress Meter window appears on your screen: The Progress Meter shows the progress of your print job and the status of your p...

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Basic Printing Page 27 Windows 3.1 After you send your print job, the EPSON Despooler dialog box appears on your screen: This dialog box shows the progress of your print job and the status of your printer. If you run out of paper while printing, fo...

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Basic Printing Page 28 Printing from a Macintosh When you print with a Macintosh, you need to check the printer software settings in each application you use. This section describes the settings you’ll need to check for all your everyday printou...

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Basic Printing Page 29 4 Now open the File menu and click Print. You see the main printer settings dialog box: 5 Choose the number of copies and indicate which pages you want to print. 6 Choose the Media Type you want to print on from the following...

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Basic Printing Page 30 The type of paper you choose determines the print quality (resolution) you can use. It’s very important to select the correct setting for your paper. If you’re not sure which to choose, see Selecting Special Media. 7 Cho...

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Basic Printing Page 31 12 If you want to preview your printout to view how the current layout, watermark, print order, and orientation settings look, click the Preview icon, then click the Preview button. See Using Print Preview on the Macintosh ...

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Basic Printing Page 32 You see the following dialog box: 4 To turn background printing on or off, click the On or Off radio button. 5 To select a priority for your print job in the queue of jobs waiting to print, click one of the following: ◗ Nor...

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Page 33 Advanced Printing When your presentation graphics, photographs, or other projects have special printing requirements, you can use the advanced settings in your EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 software. You can choose custom project types or adjust ...

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Advanced Printing Page 34 Using Custom Project Types Custom project types provide an easy way to fine-tune your printer settings for a specific type of project. Follow these steps to print with custom project types: 1 Create your image or document ...

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Advanced Printing Page 35 3 Choose the Media Type you want to print on. (If you’re not sure which setting to choose, see Selecting Special Media.) 4 Choose Color or Black ink. 5 Click Custom (in Windows 3.1, click Advanced), and then click Custom...

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Advanced Printing Page 36 ◗ Digital Camera (not available with Windows 3.1) For printing images captured using a scanner or digital camera. Corrects noise and other common flaws. ◗ Text/Graph For printing graphics-intensive documents like presen...

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Advanced Printing Page 37 7 In Windows, click the Paper and Layout tabs (not available on Windows 3.1) to check or change any necessary settings, as described in Selecting Paper Options in Windows and Choosing Print Layout Options in Windows. On ...

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Advanced Printing Page 38 You see the Advanced dialog box (called More Settings in Windows 3.1): Windows 95, 98, NT Click here to change your Print Quality (resolution) Some of these options are automatically set or disabled by other settings ...

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Advanced Printing Page 39 4 Choose the Media Type and Ink settings you want to use, following the guidelines in Printing from Windows and Printing from a Macintosh. 5 Choose one of the following Print Quality options: ◗ Economy For low-resolutio...

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Advanced Printing Page 40 ◗ Photo - 720 dpi Excellent high-resolution output on plain paper, Photo Paper, or Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper. ◗ Photo - 1440 dpi For the highest-resolution output on plain paper, Photo Paper, or Photo Quality media. ...

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Advanced Printing Page 41 ◗ Flip Horizontal Prints a mirror image of your document. Use with iron-on transfer paper so your ironed-on printout will read correctly. ◗ Finest Detail For printing text, graphics, and line art with very sharp edges....

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Advanced Printing Page 42 Using PhotoEnhance3 or Digital Camera Correction Mode To correct the exposure, tone, and sharpness of digital images, you can use PhotoEnhance3 (PhotoEnhance on Windows 3.1) and/or Digital Camera Correction mode (not avai...

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Advanced Printing Page 43 5 You can customize your image using these settings: ◗ Select a Tone setting for your image: Normal for standard tones, Hard for high contrast, or Sepia for an old-fashioned photo look. ◗ Turn on Digital Camera Correct...

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Advanced Printing Page 44 4 Click the Advanced button. The Color Management section of the Advanced dialog box appears as shown here: 5 Choose one of the following Color Adjustment Modes: ◗ Automatic Analyzes the color information in your project...

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Advanced Printing Page 45 ◗ No Color Adjustment Disables the color adjustment features of the printer software so you can use a stand-alone color management utility. 6 If you want to specify individual color correction values, use the sliders ...

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Advanced Printing Page 46 Using a Color Correction System To achieve the maximum color accuracy, you can use Image Color Matching (ICM; Windows 95 and 98 only), Standard Red Green Blue (sRGB; Windows 95, 98, and NT only), or ColorSync (Macintosh o...

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Advanced Printing Page 47 5 Select one of these color correction systems: ◗ ICM (Windows 95 and Windows 98 only) For printing documents created in an ICM compatible application. If you’re using an ICM compatible monitor, adjusts printed colors ...

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Advanced Printing Page 48 ColorSync uses profile information from each device—including your EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 printer—to achieve accurate color matching. First you have to make sure your monitor’s profile is set. Then you can use your ...

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Advanced Printing Page 49 10 Choose one of the following options for Rendering Intent: ◗ Perceptual For printing scanned photographs. ◗ Saturation For printing graphics-intensive documents like presentation pages with charts and graphs. ◗ Co...

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Advanced Printing Page 50 Selecting Paper Options in Windows Follow these steps to select paper options on the Paper tab: 1 Create your image or document in your application software. 2 Access the printer settings dialog box as described in Printing ...

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Advanced Printing Page 51 4 Click the Paper Size drop-down list to select the size of paper you loaded in the printer. The sizes marked with an asterisk (*; not available with Windows 3.1) are larger than you can load in the printer and can be us...

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Advanced Printing Page 52 6 If you’re printing multiple copies of a multi-page document and you want the copies printed in sets, click the Collate checkbox. The page graphics change to show collated documents. 7 If you’re printing a multi-page ...

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Advanced Printing Page 53 10 Click a tab for the settings you want to check or change next, or click OK to print your document. Creating User Defined Paper Sizes You can create up to 10 custom paper sizes (one in Windows 3.1) and add them to the Pa...

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Advanced Printing Page 54 4 Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT Type a name (up to 24 characters) for your custom paper size in the Paper Size Name field. Then select a Paper Width and Paper Height for the paper. To use centimeters instead of in...

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Advanced Printing Page 55 Windows 3.1 You can change the custom paper size, but cannot delete it. Click User Defined in the Paper Size list. Then, on the User Defined Paper Size dialog box, change the Paper Width and Paper Height settings as neces...

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Advanced Printing Page 56 Choosing Paper Size and Orientation Options Follow these steps to select the Paper Size and Orientation: 1 Create your image or document in your application software. 2 Open the File menu and select Page Setup. You see the P...

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Advanced Printing Page 57 If you don’t see the exact size you need, you can create a custom paper size; see Creating custom paper sizes. 4 Select the direction of printing on the page with the Orientation options. To print your document oriented ...

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Advanced Printing Page 58 Creating custom paper sizes You can create up to 8 custom paper sizes and add them to the Paper Size list. This is useful if you’re printing a custom size document, such as a banner. You can select any width from 3.5 to ...

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Advanced Printing Page 59 6 To delete a custom paper size, click the Customize button. Then click the name of the custom paper size, and click Delete. Click OK to return to the Page Setup dialog box. Selecting Print Order Options Follow these steps...

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Advanced Printing Page 60 4 If you’re printing a multi-page document and want the last page printed first so the pages come out without needing to be reordered, click the Reverse Order checkbox. The page graphics change to show later pages print...

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Advanced Printing Page 61 Reducing and Enlarging Your Document Size When you want to make the printed size of a document different from its actual size, you can use your printer software’s Reduce/Enlarge settings. You can make the document fit in...

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Advanced Printing Page 62 4 If the Paper Size setting you selected is larger than the maximum size that can be printed on your printer, you see the following dialog box: In the Output Paper list, select the actual size of the paper loaded in the p...

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Advanced Printing Page 63 If you want to adjust the proportions or sizes, go to step 5. If you’re ready to print, go to step 7. 5 Click the Layout tab. You see the Layout dialog box: Reduce/Enlarge settings ...

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Advanced Printing Page 64 6 Select one of the following Reduce/Enlarge settings: ◗ Select Normal to set the print proportion to 100%. ◗ Select Fit to Page to automatically reduce or enlarge the document to fit on the paper size loaded in the pr...

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Advanced Printing Page 65 Using Multiple Print Layouts and Page Frames If you’re printing a multiple page document, but you want a quick proof of the images on each page printed on one piece of paper, you can select Print Layout options in the pr...

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Advanced Printing Page 66 5 If you want to frame each page’s contents with a black line, one dot wide, click the Print page frames checkbox. 6 If you’re finished selecting Layout options, click OK. If you want to select more options, see Adding...

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Advanced Printing Page 67 Then highlight one of the following watermarks: To turn off your watermark, select None from the drop-down list. 4 To change the watermark or specify how it appears, click the Settings button. You see the following dialog ...

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Advanced Printing Page 68 You see the following dialog box: Click the Browse button. You see a file selection dialog box. Navigate to the folder containing the bitmap file you want to use, select the file, and click OK. Type a name for the custom w...

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Advanced Printing Page 69 6 Now select the way you want the watermark to appear by choosing the following options. The on-screen graphic changes to reflect all the settings you choose. ◗ Position selects where you want the watermark to appear on...

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Advanced Printing Page 70 Choosing Print Layout Options on a Macintosh Follow the steps in these sections to use options in the Layout dialog box: ◗ Using the Fit to Page Option ◗ Using Multiple Print Layouts and Page Frames ◗ Adding a Waterma...

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Advanced Printing Page 71 If you want to print this document on 4 × 6-inch EPSON Photo Paper, you’ll use the Fit to Page setting to reduce the document to that size. If you want to print this document on Legal-size paper (8 1/2 × 14 inches), y...

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Advanced Printing Page 72 The Paper Size option beneath the Fit to Page setting becomes active. Now select the size of the paper you’ve loaded in the printer. This automatically sets the correct reduction or enlargement percentage to fit the do...

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Advanced Printing Page 73 Using Multiple Print Layouts and Page Frames If you’re printing a multiple page document and you want a quick proof of the images on each page printed on one piece of paper, you can select Print Layout options in the pri...

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Advanced Printing Page 74 6 If you want to frame each page’s contents with a black line, one dot wide, click the Print page frames checkbox. 7 If you’re finished selecting Layout options, click OK. If you want to select more options, see Adding...

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Advanced Printing Page 75 5 To load a custom watermark you’ve created as a PICT file in an application program, click the Add/Delete button. You see the following dialog box: Click the Add button. You see a dialog box for selecting files. Naviga...

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Advanced Printing Page 76 ◗ Intensity sets the lightness or darkness of the watermark (from 5% to 100%) based on where you move the slidebar. ◗ To adjust the size and position of the watermark, move the cursor over the Layout graphic. Four box...

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Advanced Printing Page 77 Using Print Preview on the Macintosh You can get a preview of how your document will print with the Print Preview feature in your Macintosh printer software. Print Preview shows the results of the following printer softwar...

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Advanced Printing Page 78 3 Click the Print Preview icon. The Print button changes to the Preview button. 4 Click the Preview button. You see the print preview dialog box: 5 The first preview page is the first page of your document. To change the ...

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Advanced Printing Page 79 Saving Custom Settings After you’ve fine-tuned your printer settings for a special project, you can save the settings as a group. Then you can quickly reuse them the next time you print a similar project. You can save up...

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Advanced Printing Page 80 4 Click OK to close the Advanced dialog box (not necessary with Windows 3.1). To use the settings, click Custom (in Windows 3.1, click Advanced). Then open the Custom Settings list and double-click the name you selected f...

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Advanced Printing Page 81 4 Select the name of the custom settings group you’re redefining in the Custom Settings dialog box. 5 If you’re using Windows, click Save. You see the Save As dialog box. Click OK to save your redefined settings. (Clic...

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Page 82 Printing on Special Media Your EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 lets you print on just about any kind of paper you want to use. You can get great results printing on various sizes of plain paper, letterhead, and envelopes, but you’ll get even bett...

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Printing on Special Media Page 83 Selecting Special Media When you print on special media, you need to choose the correct Media Type and Paper Size settings in your printer software. The table below lists the available EPSON media and the correspon...

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Printing on Special Media Page 84 To order EPSON papers and other media, contact your dealer or call EPSON Accessories at (800) 873-7766 or visit our web site at www.epsonsupplies.com (U.S. sales only). In Canada, please call (800) 873-7766 for de...

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Printing on Special Media Page 85 Media Loading and Handling Guidelines The following tips help you get the best results on any type of paper: ◗ Always handle sheets by the edges, and don’t touch the printable surface. ◗ When you load paper, ...

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Printing on Special Media Page 86 ◗ EPSON Photo Paper ◗ EPSON Photo Quality Ink Jet Cards ◗ EPSON Photo Stickers ◗ EPSON Photo Quality Self Adhesive Sheets ◗ EPSON Cool Peel Iron-On Transfer Paper Letterhead, Preprinted Forms, and Legal-siz...

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Printing on Special Media Page 87 If your media has a cut corner, position it in the printer as shown here. Remove each sheet from the output tray immediately after it’s printed. Make sure each sheet is dry before stacking. Note: It is best not t...

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Printing on Special Media Page 88 Envelopes You can load up to 10 envelopes flap edge first, with the printable side up, as shown below: Select Plain paper as the Media Type and choose the correct envelope size as the Paper Size setting in the prin...

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Printing on Special Media Page 89 EPSON Photo Paper You can use EPSON Photo Paper to print photographs that look almost as good as the ones you get from film processing. 4 × 6-inch Photo Paper is perforated around the edges, so you can trim your ...

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Printing on Special Media Page 90 ◗ If you’re loading 4 × 6-inch Photo Paper, follow these steps: 1 Position the perforated margins as shown and load up to 20 sheets with support sheets A and B beneath the stack. 2 When you create the image you...

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Printing on Special Media Page 91 3 Choose these printer software settings: Photo Paper as the Media Type setting EPSON Photo Paper 4 × 6 in as the Paper Size setting Maximum as the Printable Area setting 4 After you print, fold the paper back and f...

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Printing on Special Media Page 92 EPSON Photo Quality Ink Jet Cards You can load up to 30 cards at a time. Always place the included support sheet under the cards and load them as shown below. Make sure you set the paper thickness lever to the + po...

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Printing on Special Media Page 93 EPSON Photo Stickers Use these sheets of stickers to print small, decorated photos for use on cards, invitations, or other items. You’ll need to use an application that can create photo stickers, such as StickerP...

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Printing on Special Media Page 94 EPSON Cool Peel Iron-On Transfer Paper You can print photos, company logos, or anything else you want on these transfer papers, and then iron your images onto T-shirts or other cloth items. Load one sheet of trans...

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Page 95 Managing Print Jobs Your printer software includes several utilities for managing print jobs. You can use them to monitor your printer’s status and check on the current print job or jobs waiting to print. This chapter provides instruction...

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Managing Print Jobs Page 96 Managing Print Jobs in Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0 Your printer software offers three ways to manage and monitor your print jobs: ◗ Progress Meter, which appears each time you send a print job, as descr...

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Managing Print Jobs Page 97 Selecting the Speed & Progress Options You can set up the way your printer software sends print jobs and displays the Progress Meter using the Speed and Progress dialog box. To access the dialog box, you must open yo...

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Managing Print Jobs Page 98 You see this dialog box: Select the following options: ◗ High Speed Copies speeds up printing of multiple copies of the same document using hard disk space as a cache. ◗ Show Progress Meter lets you control whether or...

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Managing Print Jobs Page 99 ◗ EPSON Printer Port (not available with Windows NT 4.0) lets you optimize the transfer rate of your printer port for EPSON printers instead of using the Windows default printer port. You may see one of these messages...

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Managing Print Jobs Page 100 Using the Spool Manager The Spool Manager (not available with Windows NT) creates a temporary print job file and stores it in the C:\TEMP or C:\WINDOWS\TEMP folder. The software then sends the file to your printer at t...