Chapter 3 Recommendations; Printing Mode Settings Of The Epson Stylus Color 460; Color Ink Mode Setting Recommendations For The Stylus Color 870; Table 4 Recommended Print Mode Settings - Epson STYLUS 870 Programming Manual

CHAPTER 3 RECOMMENDATIONS

The following recommendations are provided for development of printer drivers for the Stylus
Photo 870 printer. The values provided are only starting recommendations. Adjustments to
these values for different halftone modules may improve driver output quality.

3.1 Printing Mode Settings of the EPSON Stylus COLOR 460

The EPSON Stylus Photo 870 supports the following printing modes. More information
regarding commands for these modes of printing can be found in the Individual Command
Specifications portion of this paper.

Table 4 Recommended Print Mode settings

Printing mode
Economy
Normal
Normal
Fine
Photo(720)
Photo(1440)

3.2 Color Ink Mode Setting Recommendations for the Stylus COLOR 870

Table 5 Color ink printing recommendations.

360dpi Ink Jet Paper
Photo Quality Glossy
Ink Jet Transparencies
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Print density
(horizontal x vertical)
120(360)dpi x 120dpi
360dpi x 360dpi
360dpi x 360dpi
360dpi x 720dpi
720dpi x 720dpi
1440dpi x 720dpi
Media Print quality
Plain paper
Photo(720)
Photo Quality Ink
Jet Paper Photo(720)
Matte Paper -
Photo(720)
Heavyweight
Photo Paper
Photo(720)
RC Paper
Photo(720)
Photo(720)
Film
Micro Weave
OFF
OFF
ON
ON
ON
ON
Resolution
dpi
Normal 360x360
720x720
Normal 360x360
Fine 360x720
720x720
Fine 360x720
720x720
Fine 360x720
720x720
Fine 360x720
720x720
720x720
Normal 360x360
02H value of
SN Command
03
02
01
00
00
00
Bi-directional
printing
ON
ON
OFF
ON
ON
ON
ON
ON
ON
ON
ON
OFF
OFF
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