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All rights reserved. 2 Copyrights and Trademarks Contents Copyrights and Trademarks Safety Instructions Safety Information. .14 Warnings, Cautions, and Notes . .14 Safety precautions . .14 Important Safety Instructions . .17 Safety Information . .21 Power On/Off Cautions . .24 Chapter 1 Getting to Know Your Printer Where to Find Information . .25 Printer Parts . .26 Front view . .26 Rear view . .27 Inside the printer . .28 Control panel. .29 Options and Consumable Products . .30 Options. .30 Consumable products . .31 Chapter 2 Printer Features and Various Printing Options Printer Features . .33 High-speed tandem printing engine . .33 High-quality printing. .33 Pre-defined color settings in the printer driver . .34 Toner save mode. .34 Resolution Improvement Technology and Enhanced MicroGray technology. .34 3 Wide variety of fonts. 34 Adobe PostScript 3 Mode. 35 P5C Emulation Mode . 35 Various Printing Options . 35 Double-sided printing . 35 Fit to page printing . 36 Pages per sheet printing . 37 Watermark printing . 38 Overlay printing . 38 Using the Reserve Job function . 39 Using the HDD form overlay function . 40 Chapter 3 Paper Handling Paper Sources . 41 MP tray . 41 Standard lower paper cassette. 42 550-sheet/1100-sheet Paper Cassette Unit. 42 Selecting a paper source . 43 Loading Paper. 45 MP tray . 46 Standard lower paper cassette and optional paper cassette unit . 47 Output tray. 52 Printing on Special Media . 53 EPSON Color Laser Paper . 53 EPSON Color Laser Transparencies. 54 Envelopes . 56 Labels . 57 Thick paper and extra thick paper . 59 Loading a custom paper size . 59 4 Chapter 4 Using the Printer Software with Windows About the Printer Software . .61 Accessing the printer driver . .61 Making Changes to Printer Settings . .62 Making the print quality settings. .62 Duplex printing . .69 Ordering Consumables . .72 Resizing printouts . .73 Modifying the print layout . .76 Using a watermark . .78 Using an overlay. .81 Using HDD form overlay . .87 Making Extended Settings . .92 Making Optional Settings . .95 Printing a status sheet . .95 Using the Reserve Job Function. .96 Re-Print Job . .97 Verify Job . .99 Stored Job. .100 Confidential Job . .102 Monitoring Your Printer Using EPSON Status Monitor . .103 Installing EPSON Status Monitor. .103 Accessing EPSON Status Monitor . .107 Information on EPSON Status Monitor . .109 Simple Status. .109 Detailed Status . .110 Consumables Information. .111 Job Information. .113 Notice Settings . .117 Order Online . .118 Tray Icon Settings . .120 Setting Up the USB Connection. .121 Canceling Printing. .122 Uninstalling the Printer Software . .123 Uninstalling the printer driver . .123 Uninstall the USB device driver . .126 Sharing the Printer on a Network . .128 Sharing the printer . ..