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Accessing the printer utilities for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Accessing the printer utilities for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using Printer and Option Information (Windows only) . . . . . 51
Getting Information Through Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Accessing help from Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Accessing help from Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Uninstalling the Printer Software (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Chapter 3 Printer Status and Print Job Management
Checking Printer and Print Job Status for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using the Progress Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using the EPSON Spool Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Using EPSON Status Monitor 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Increasing the Print Speed (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
General tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Using Speed & Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Port Configuration (Windows NT 4.0 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Checking Printer and Print Job Status for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Using the EPSON StatusMonitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Making Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Controlling Background Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Chapter 4 Paper Handling
Notes for Special Media and Other Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
EPSON special media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Using paper other than EPSON special media . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Using Roll Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Attaching the roll paper to the spindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Removing the roll paper from the spindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Attaching and removing the spindle from the printer . . . . . . . 83
Loading the roll paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Using the roll paper belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Cutting roll paper or printing page lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Using Cut Sheet Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Loading cut sheet media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
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