Epson Stylus Pro 5000 Manual de usuario

User’s Guide Update

The following additional procedures are necessary

when loading paper in the paper tray as described in

your EPSON Stylus Pro 5000’s Setup Guide Chapter 3

and Reference Guide Chapter 2.

❑After opening the paper tray cover, lift the paper

guide roller before loading paper or pulling out

the paper tray extension.

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❑Set the roller position to match the paper size you

are loading by sliding the switch. Set the roller to

“Other” when loading paper other than A3 or

Ledger size.

❑After paper is loaded, put the paper guide roller

back in the paper tray.

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Where to Find Information

This Reference Guide

Provides you with detailed information about printing on

special paper, using the printer driver and utilities, and

provides other tips that will help you get the results you want.

Setup Guide

Provides you with the basic information you need to start using

your EPSON Stylus Pro 5000 and its optional and consumable

products.

Online Help (Microsoft®Windows®3.1x, 95, and NT®only)

Provides you with detailed information and instructions on the

Windows-based printer software that controls your printer.

(Online help will be automatically installed when you install

the printer software.) See Chapter 3 for information on

accessing online help.

Color Guide

Explains how color printing works and shows you how to get

impressive results from your printer.

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Color Ink Jet Printer

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 the

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 Raster 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.

Reference Guide

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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 Pro 5000

Model: P990A

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

Directive 89/336/EEC:EN 55022 Class B

EN 61000-3-2

EN 61000-3-3

EN 50082-1

IEC 801-2

IEC 801-3

IEC 801-4

Directive 73/23/EEC: EN 60950

November 1997

Y. Ishii

President of EPSON EUROPE B.V.

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Contents

Safety Instructions

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

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

Warnings, Cautions, and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-3

ENERGY STAR Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-4

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

Chapter 1 Printing on Various Kinds of Paper

Choosing Special Paper and Other Media . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

EPSON special media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

About special media cleaning sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Printing on Plain Paper, 360 dpi Paper, Photo Quality Paper,

Glossy Paper, Ink Jet Cards, and Greeting Cards. . . . . . . . 1-7

Printing on Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

Storing envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12

Printing on Photo Quality Glossy Film and Ink Jet

Transparencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13

Storing glossy film and transparencies . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15

Printing on Ink Jet Back Light Film and Photo Quality

Self Adhesive Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16

Storing Back Light Film and Self Adhesive Sheets . . . . . 1-18

Printing on Photo Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-18

Notes for EPSON Photo Paper (4 ×6 inches) . . . . . . . . 1-21

Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-21

Removing the perforated edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-22

Storing EPSON Photo Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-22

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Chapter 2 Paper Handling

Selecting a Paper Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Paper Path and Loadable Paper Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Paper Tray and Loading Capacity by Media Type . . . . . . . . 2-5

Loading Paper in a Paper Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Tips on using a paper tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Loading paper in the standard paper tray . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Loading paper in the optional lower paper tray . . . . . . . 2-15

Loading Paper in the Manual Feed Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

Loading in the front manual feed slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

Loading in the rear manual feed slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21

Chapter 3 Using the Printer Software for Windows

The Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Accessing the Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

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

From Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

From Windows 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

Using the Automatic Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Using the Predefined Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6

Customizing the Print Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Saving your settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9

Making the Media Type Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Modifying the Printout Method and Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Using the Paper menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13

Using the Layout menu (Windows 95 & NT 4.0 only) . . . . 3-14

Checking Print Job & Printer Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Understanding the EPSON Spool Manager . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Getting Information Through Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19

From Windows applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19

From Windows 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20

From Windows NT 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20

From Windows 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20

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Chapter 4 Using the Printer Software for Macintosh

The Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Using the Automatic Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

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

Customizing the Print Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

Making your settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

Saving your settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10

Choosing your settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11

Modifying visual effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11

Controlling the printing quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16

Changing the Paper Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18

Defining a Custom Paper Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20

Modifying the Printout Method and Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22

Controlling Background Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-25

Chapter 5 Using EPSON Printer Utilities

Introducing the EPSON Printer Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

EPSON Status Monitor 2 for Windows 95 . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

EPSON StatusMonitor for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Nozzle Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Head Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Print Head Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Printer and Option Information (Windows only) . . . . . . 5-5

Speed & Progress (Windows 95) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7

Configuration (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

Using the EPSON Status Monitor 2 Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10

Opening EPSON Status Monitor 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10

Checking the Printer Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10

Printer Status window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16

Setting Monitoring Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20

Using the background monitoring icon . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22

Using the EPSON StatusMonitor (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . 5-23

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Chapter 6 The Control Panel

Using the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Using Special Power-On Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Nozzle check and printer settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4

Print head alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5

Paper size and media type verification . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7

Parallel interface ECP mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Platen gap adjustment for the manual feed slots . . . . . . . 6-9

Chapter 7 Maintenance and Transportation

Replacing an Ink Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Cleaning the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6

Transporting the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7

Setting up the printer after transporting it . . . . . . . . . . 7-9

Chapter 8 Troubleshooting

Diagnosing the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2

Error indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2

Status Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7

Printer operation check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7

Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9

Power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10

Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11

Paper handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-16

Printing quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-20

Printer utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-27

Clearing a Paper Jam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-29

Increasing the Print Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-31

Using DMA transfer (Windows 95) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33

Cleaning the Print Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-37

Using the Head Cleaning utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-37

Using the control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-40

Aligning the Print Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-41

Uninstalling the Printer Software (Windows 95) . . . . . . . . . 8-42

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