Table Of Contents - Epson AL-C300 Series User Manual

AL-C300 Series User's Guide
Contents
Introduction
Where to Find Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Warning, Caution, Important and Note. . . . . . . . . . 4
Prerequisites of Description in This Manual. . . . . . . 4
Abbreviations of Operating Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Note For This Publication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Important Instructions
Important Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Setting up the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Finding the place for the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Handling the consumable products and
maintenance parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Safety Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Laser safety labels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Internal laser radiation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Ozone safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Restrictions on Making Copies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Getting to Know Your Printer
Printer Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Front and right side view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Inside the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Rear and left side view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Control panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Using the Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Accessing the control panel menus. . . . . . . . . . . 15
Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
System Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
USB Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Quick Print JobMenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
ConfidentialJobMenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Common Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Printer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Admin Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Bookmark Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Loading Paper
Available Paper and Capacities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Loading Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Paper cassette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
MP tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Contents
Selecting and Using Print Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Envelopes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Other paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Custom paper size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Printing Tasks
Basics of Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Setting the Main Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Setting the More Options Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Setting the Maintenance Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Setting Advanced Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Printing multiple print jobs at one time. . . . . . . 49
Printing a booklet (AL-C300DN only). . . . . . . . 49
Using the Reserve Job function. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Printing with an overlay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Printing directly from a USB memory. . . . . . . . . . 52
Using EPSON Status Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Accessing EPSON Status Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . 53
Notice Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Tray Icon Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Cancelling a Print Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
From the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
From the computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Uninstalling and Installing Software
Uninstalling Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Installing Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Installing the PostScript printer driver with
Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Installing the PostScript printer driver with
Mac OS X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Installing the PCL printer driver (For
Windows only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Troubleshooting
Checking Printer Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Status and error messages on the control panel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Printing a status sheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Clearing Jammed Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
B (Cover B). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
D (Cover D). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
C1 (Cassette 1), C2 (Cassette 2). . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
E (Cover E). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Paper Does Not Feed Properly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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