Changing The Character Table; Printer Driver Setting Summary; Running A Printer Check - Epson Stylus Color 400 Manual

EPSON Stylus COLOR 400
Error Conditions
Control panel light status
P S
Problem power paper out
Black ink low On Off
Black ink out On Off
Color ink low On Off
Color ink out On Off
Paper out or On On
incorrectly
loaded
Paper On Flashing
jammed
Carriage error Flashing On
Fatal error Flashing Flashing
Buttons
The power button turns the printer on and off. It also
P
resets the printer (clears its memory) if you press it twice
while the power is on.
The load/eject button loads or ejects a sheet of paper if
E
you press and release it within two seconds. (The printer
normally loads and ejects paper automatically.) When the
printer is off and you hold down the load/eject button
while turning the printer on, it runs a printer check.
You use the cleaning button for replacing ink cartridges
R
and cleaning the print heads, based on the status of the
ink out lights. When the printer is off and you hold
down the cleaning button while turning the printer on, it
changes the character table.

Running a Printer Check

1. Turn off the printer and your computer.
2. Disconnect the interface cable from the printer.
3. Make sure paper is loaded in the printer.
4. Hold down the load/eject button and turn on the printer.
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Then release both buttons. The printer prints out one page
containing the printer's ROM version number, character
table number, and a nozzle check pattern.
Caution:
Load paper that's at least 7.17 inches (182 mm) wide
so ink doesn't spray onto the platen.
5. After it prints the page, turn off the printer. Reconnect the
interface cable, then turn on the printer and your computer.
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black ink out color ink out
Flashing Off
On Off
Off Flashing
Off On
Off Off
Off Off
On On
Flashing Flashing

Changing the Character Table

The printer uses a character table for printing United States
and standard European characters (PC437). If you want to use
a multilingual character table (PC850), you can change to it
using the printer's control panel.
1. Turn off the printer.
2. Hold down the R
Then release both buttons.
The character table is changed to PC850. To change it back to
PC437, repeat the steps above. To check the current character
table number, run a printer check as described in the previous
section.

Printer Driver Setting Summary

The following tables summarize the settings available in each
menu tab (with default values in bold type). See your printer
driver's online help for more details.
Main menu settings
Setting Options
Mode Automatic
Advanced
Advanced mode Custom Settings
document types * Photo
Text/Graph
Video/Digital Camera
Economy
Quality/Speed Quality
slide bar ** Speed
Media Type Plain paper
360 dpi Ink Jet Paper
Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper
Photo Quality Glossy Paper
Photo Quality Glossy Film
Ink Jet Transparencies
Ink Color
Black
* Available only when using Advanced mode.
** Available only when using Automatic mode and Plain paper.
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cleaning button and turn on the printer.
Description
Selects Automatic to
choose settings
based on the Media
Type and data in the
print file, or selects
Advancced to choose
settings for a
particular document
type or to customize
settings.
In Advanced mode,
selects settings for a
particular document
type.
When Plain paper is
selected, chooses
settings for speed or
quality.
See the table of
EPSON media
names and the
Media Type settings
they require on
page 6.
If your print job
contains any color
data, choose Color.
If it contains only
black data, select
Black.