Epson 1520 - Stylus Color Inkjet Printer Manual de usuario

Where to Find Information

This User’s Guide

Provides you with all the information you need to use your

EPSON Stylus Color 1520 and consumable products, from

setting up to troubleshooting.

Online Help

Provides you with detailed information and instructions on the

Windows printer software that controls your printer. See

Chapter 3 for information on accessing online help.

Color Guide

Explains the ABC’s of color printing and shows you how to get

impressive results from your printer.

Customer Support

Contact Customer Support if your printer is not operating

properly and you cannot solve the problem with the

troubleshooting information in this guide and online help. See

“Contacting Customer Support” in Chapter 10 for more

information.

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system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,

recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of SEIKO EPSON

CORPORATION. The information contained herein is designed only for use with this

EPSON printer. EPSON is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to

other printers.

Neither SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION nor its affiliates shall be liable to the purchaser of

this product or third parties for damages, losses, costs, or expenses incurred by purchaser

or third parties as a result of: accident, misuse, or abuse of this product or unauthorized

modifications, repairs, or alterations to this product, or (excluding the U.S.) failure to

strictly comply with SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION’s operating and maintenance

instructions.

SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION shall not be liable for any damages or problems arising

from the use of any options or any consumable products other than those designated as

Original EPSON Products or EPSON Approved Products by SEIKO EPSON

CORPORATION.

EPSON and EPSON ESC/P are registered trademarks and EPSON ESC/P 2 and EPSON

Stylus are trademarks of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION.

Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

General Notice: Other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be

trademarks of their respective owners. EPSON disclaims any and all rights in those marks.

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Declaration of Conformity

According to ISO/IEC Guide 22 and EN 45014

Manufacturer: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Address: 3-5, Owa 3-chome, Suwa-shi,

Nagano-ken 392 Japan

Representative: EPSON EUROPE B.V.

Address: Prof. J. H. Bavincklaan 5 1183

AT Amstelveen

The Netherlands

Declares that the Product:

Product Name: Ink Jet Printer

Type Name: EPSON Stylus COLOR 1520

Model: P892A

Conforms to the following Directive(s) and Norm(s):

Directive 89/336/EEC:EN 55022 Class B

EN 50082-1

IEC 801-2

IEC 801-3

IEC 801-4

EN 61000-3-2

EN 61000-3-3

Directive 73/23/EEC: EN 60950

November 1996

M. Hamamoto

President of EPSON EUROPE B.V.

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Contents

Safety Instructions

Important Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-1

A few precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-2

ENERGY STAR Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-3

For United Kingdom Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-4

Warnings, Cautions, and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-5

Chapter 1 Getting to Know Your Printer

Printer Parts and Control Panel Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

When using your printer with a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

When using your printer with a Macintosh . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Options and Consumable Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

Consumable Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9

Chapter 2 Getting Started

Unpacking the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Choosing a Place for the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Attaching the paper support and the output tray . . . . . . 2-5

Plugging in the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Installing the Ink Cartridge for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Connecting the Printer to Your PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12

Installing the Printer Software in your PC . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

For Windows 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

Using your printer on a Network with Windows 95 . . . . 2-17

For Windows 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19

For DOS users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21

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Connecting the Printer to Your Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

Using the built-in serial interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

Using an optional EPSON interface card . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23

Installing the Printer Software in Your Macintosh . . . . . . . . 2-24

Installing the printer software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24

Printer software components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26

Assigning a name to the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28

Selecting your printer with the Chooser . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29

Chapter 3 Starting to Print with Windows

Before Starting to Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Loading Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Starting to Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7

Chapter 4 Using the Printer Software for Windows

Introducing the Printer Software Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Accessing the Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

From Windows applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

From Windows 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

From Windows 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Using the Automatic Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Using the Predefined Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Customizing the Print Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8

Making the Media Type Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10

Using EPSON Printer Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14

EPSON Status Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Nozzle Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16

Head Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16

Print Head Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16

Understanding the EPSON Spool Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17

Checking printer status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17

Getting Information Through Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19

From Windows applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19

From Windows 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19

From Windows 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19

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Chapter 5 Starting to Print with Macintosh

Before Starting to Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Loading Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Starting to Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Chapter 6 Using the Printer Software for Macintosh

Introducing the Printer Software Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Using the Automatic Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Using the Predefined Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7

Customizing the Print Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Making your settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Saving your settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10

Choosing your settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11

Modifying visual effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11

Controlling the printing quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15

Making the Color and Halftoning settings . . . . . . . . . 6-18

Changing the Paper Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19

Defining a Custom Paper Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21

Using EPSON Printer Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-22

EPSON StatusMonitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23

Nozzle Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24

Head Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-25

Print Head Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-25

Using the EPSON Monitor2 Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-26

Chapter 7 Paper Handling

Printing on Single Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Tips on using the sheet feeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Loading oversized paper in the sheet feeder . . . . . . . . . 7-3

Loading paper manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Adjusting the loading position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8

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Printing on Continuous Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9

Loading continuous paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9

Removing continuous paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14

Tips on using continuous paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

Adjusting the loading position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

Adjusting the tear-off position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

Switching Between Continuous Paper and Single Sheets . . . . 7-18

Switching to single sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18

Switching to continuous paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19

Printing on Special Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20

Setting the adjust lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20

Choosing Special Paper and Other Media . . . . . . . . . . 7-21

Loading Special Paper and Other Media . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23

Photo Quality Ink Jet Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26

Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27

Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29

EPSON banner paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-31

EPSON Ink Jet Back Light Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-32

Chapter 8 The Control Panel

Using the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2

Using Special Power-On Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3

Using the Default-Setting Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4

About the default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5

Changing the default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10

Selecting fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-12

Scalable fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13

Chapter 9 Maintenance and Transportation

Replacing an Ink Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2

Printing with an empty color ink cartridge . . . . . . . . . . 9-6

Cleaning the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-7

Transporting the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8

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Chapter 10 Troubleshooting

Diagnosing a Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2

Error indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2

Status Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-4

Self testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-4

Hex dump mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6

Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7

Power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7

Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8

Paper handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-16

Preventing paper feed and paper jam problems . . . . . . 10-24

Printing quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-25

Printer utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-32

Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-33

Increasing the Print Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-34

Cleaning the Print Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-36

Aligning the Print Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-40

Using the print head alignment utility for DOS . . . . . . . 10-41

Using the printer’s control panel buttons . . . . . . . . . . 10-42

Ink Cartridge Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-43

Contacting Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-44

For United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland users . . 10-44

For Australian users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-47

For Hong Kong and Singapore users . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-49

Appendix A Tips for Color Printing

Basics of Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

Image Resolution and Image Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5

Basics of Color Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7

Appendix B Using Optional Interfaces

Available Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2

Installing Optional Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3

The C82305✽/C82306✽serial interface card . . . . . . . . . B-5

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Appendix CSpecifications

Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-2

Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-2

Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-4

Ink cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-10

Mechanical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-11

Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-12

Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-12

Safety approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-13

Interface Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-14

Parallel interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-14

Serial interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-19

Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-20

Command List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-21

ESC/P 2 control codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-21

IBM XL24E emulation control codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-22

Character Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-23

International character sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-32

Characters available with ESC ( ^ command . . . . . . . . . C-33

Glossary

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