Epson Stylus Color 580 Manuale utente

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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.

SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION shall not be held liable for any damage resulting from

electromagnetic interference that occurs from the use of any interface cables other than those

designated as EPSON Approved Products by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION.

EPSON is a registered trademark and EPSON Stylus is a trademark 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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Contents

Printer Parts and Functions

Unpacking the Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Printer Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Safety Instructions

Important Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

A Few Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

When using the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

When handling the ink cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

When choosing a place for the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

ENERGY STAR Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

For United Kingdom Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Warnings, Cautions, and Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 1 Paper Handling

Loading Plain Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

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

About special media cleaning sheets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

Loading Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

Using EPSON Photo Paper (4 x 6 inch, 200 x 300 mm) . . . . . . . . 1-6

Loading Photo Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Removing the perforated margins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7

Storing EPSON Photo Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

Chapter 2 Printing with Windows

Printer Software Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Getting more information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Accessing the printer software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

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Making Changes to Printer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Making the Media Type setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Using the Automatic mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Using the PhotoEnhance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Using the Custom mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Modifying the printout style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

Making the Paper menu settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

Fitting your document to the paper size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

Printing two or four pages on one sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

Printing posters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Printing a watermark on your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

Previewing your printout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21

Using the Printer Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24

Status Monitor 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

Nozzle Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

Head Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26

Print Head Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26

Ink Cartridge Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26

Speed & Progress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27

Monitoring Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28

Getting Information Through Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29

Accessing help from your application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30

Accessing help from the Windows Start menu. . . . . . . . . . 2-30

Increasing the Print Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30

General tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30

Making the High Speed Copies setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33

Chapter 3 Checking Printer Status and Managing Print Jobs for

Windows

Using the Progress Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Using EPSON Spool Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Using EPSON Status Monitor 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Accessing EPSON Status Monitor 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

Viewing information in EPSON Status Monitor 3 . . . . . . . 3-4

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Chapter 4 Using the Printer Software for Macintosh

Printer Software Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

Making Changes to Printer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

Making the Media Type setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

Using the Automatic mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Using the PhotoEnhance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Using the Custom mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7

Changing the page setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10

Modifying the page layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

Fitting your document to the paper size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14

Printing two or four pages on one sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14

Printing posters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Printing a watermark on your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16

Setting the Print Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18

Saving spool data as a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19

Previewing your printout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20

Using the Printer Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22

EPSON StatusMonitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22

Nozzle Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23

Head Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23

Print Head Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23

Ink Cartridge Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24

Chapter 5 Checking Printer Status and Managing Print Jobs for

Macintosh

Using EPSON StatusMonitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

Accessing EPSON StatusMonitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Using the Configuration Settings dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Using EPSON Monitor3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Accessing EPSON Monitor3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Managing print jobs using EPSON Monitor3 . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Changing the priority of print jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Chapter 6 Setting Up Your Printer on a Network

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For Windows 98 Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Setting up your printer as a shared printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Accessing the printer through a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

For Windows 2000 Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5

Setting up your printer as a shared printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5

Accessing the printer through a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

For Macintosh Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Setting up your printer as shared printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Accessing the printer through a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11

Chapter 7 Replacing Ink Cartridges

Replacing an Empty Ink Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Replacing an Old or Damaged Ink Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3

For Windows users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4

For Macintosh users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Chapter 8 Maintenance

Checking the Print Head Nozzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1

Using the Nozzle Check utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1

Cleaning the Print Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2

Using the Head Cleaning utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3

Aligning the Print Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5

For Windows users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5

For Macintosh users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6

Cleaning the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6

Transporting the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7

Chapter 9 Troubleshooting

Correcting USB Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1

Make sure that your computer is a Windows 98 or Windows 2000

pre-installed model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1

Make sure that EPSON USB Printer Devices appears on the De-

vice Manager menu (for Windows 98 only) . . . . . . . . . . 9-1

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Printer does not work correctly with the USB cable . . . . . . 9-3

Diagnosing the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4

Cancelling Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5

For Windows users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5

For Macintosh users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6

Print Quality Could Be Better . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8

Horizontal banding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8

Vertical misalignment or banding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8

Color gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-9

Incorrect or missing colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10

Blurry or smeared printout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10

Printouts Are Not What You Expected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11

Incorrect or garbled characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-12

Incorrect margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-12

Inverted image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-12

Blank pages print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13

Printout has smears on the bottom edge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13

Printing is too slow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13

Printer Doesn't Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-14

Paper Doesn't Feed Correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15

Paper doesn't feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15

Multiple pages feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-16

The paper jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-16

Paper isn't ejected fully or is wrinkled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-17

Chapter 10 Consumable Products

Consumable products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1

Ink cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1

Media types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1

Appendix A Printer Specifications

Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

Paper specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

Printable area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4

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Ink Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6

Mechanical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8

Electrical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8

Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-9

Safety Approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-9

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-10

For Windows computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-10

For Macintosh computers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-11

Appendix B Customer Support

Technical Support Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Regional Customer Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Glossary

Printer Parts and Functions -1

Printer Parts and Functions

Unpacking the Printer

Your printer box should include a CD-ROM containing printer

software that runs your printer, and the items shown in the

illustration below.

In some locations, the power cord comes attached to the printer.

The shape of the AC plug varies by country; be sure the plug

included is the right shape for your location.

Remove all protective materials packed with your printer before

setting up and plugging in the printer. Follow the instructions

included with the printer to remove these materials. Save all

packaging and protective materials for transporting the printer in

the future.

paper support

ink cartridges

printer

output tray

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Printer Parts

sheet feeder

edge guides printer cover

paper support

output tray

ink cartridge clamps

print head

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