Table Of Contents - Epson AL-M8200 Series User Manual

AL-M8200/AL-M8100/AL-M7100 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. . . . . . . . . . . 8
Safety Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Laser safety labels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Internal laser radiation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Ozone safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Restrictions on Making Copies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Making copies of the following items is
prohibited by law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Exercise caution when making copies of the
following items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Responsible use of copyrighted materials. . . . . . 10
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
Quick Print JobMenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
ConfidentialJobMenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Common Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Printer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Admin Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Bookmark Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Loading Paper
Available Paper and Capacities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Contents
Available paper types and weights. . . . . . . . . . . 36
Loading Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Paper cassette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
MP tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Paper output settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Output to the face-up tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Orientation to eject paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Selecting and Using Print Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Envelopes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Other paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Custom paper size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Using the Reserve Job function. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Printing with an overlay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Improving the clarity of color documents. . . . . . 52
Using sleep mode to save energy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Entering the sleep mode manually. . . . . . . . . . . 52
Entering the sleep mode automatically. . . . . . . . 53
Changing the printer driver's default settings (for
administrators). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Changing the default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Locking the default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Using EPSON Status Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Accessing EPSON Status Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . 54
Notice Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Tray Icon Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Cancelling a Print Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
From the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
From the computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Uninstalling and Installing Software
Uninstalling Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Installing Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Installing the PostScript printer driver with
Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Installing the PostScript printer driver with
Mac OS X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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