Epson ActionPrinter 3260 Product Information Guide - Page 9

To take the full advantage of your printer's features, choose ActionPrinter 3260. If it is not available, select LQ-860 or LQ-2550 if you plan to use color. If you do not plan to use color, choose Stylus 800, LQ-570+, ActionPrinter 3250, or LQ-870. Note: For any of the LQ printers be sure to choose Sheet Feeder Bin 1 or the equivalent in the printer setup. If your software program does not list the ActionPrinter 3260, you can also contact the manufacturer of your software to see if an update for your printer is available. If none of the printers mentioned above is available in your software program, you can choose LQ-570+ or LQ-570 for good quality text and graphics but no color support. If those printers are also not available, choose any Epson printer or standard printer or draft printer. Software Tips Avoiding smudged pages When you print full resolution graphics (360 x 360 dpi), the result may have a slightly smudged appearance. If this occurs, choose 360 x 180 resolution using your application software. Printing landscape (horizontal) pages Dot matrix printers do not have built-in fonts for printing in landscape. You may use Microsoft Windows or programs such as Allways or Sideways to do this. Keeping page breaks in their proper place There is an area at the top and bottom edges of each sheet that the printer must use to load and feed the paper. You cannot print on these portions of the page. If the margins and page breaks in your document do not take into account these unprintable areas, you may find that the printing position is too low on the page or that part of one page is printed at the top of the next page. Your software may be set to print on continuous paper or to print too many lines on a page. To correct this problem, try the following: Cl Select single sheets or sheet feeder bin 1 in your software. 0 Reduce the maximum number of lines per page. Cl Reduce the top and bottom margins in your software. Action Printer 3260 Using fonts There are two sources for the fonts you use in your documents: internal and downloaded. In addition to the internal fonts built into your printer, many programs can send their own fonts to the printer in the same way they send your documents. For instance, Lotus l-2-3 creates and sends the fonts that it uses to print spreadsheets. Whether you use internal fonts or fonts downloaded from software, you will most likely need to select your fonts through your software. Fonts and the control panel Your software sends font commands along with the document to the printer. If these font commands are different from what you selected on the printer's control panel, the software commands always override control panel settings. For this reason, you need to make your font selections through software. Use the control panel for font selection only when you are sending unformatted text to the printer directly from MS-DOS or when you are using a simple software package that does not include font selections. Paper Handling Printing on Single Sheets You can load standard-sized single sheets with the paper cassette and you can load single sheets of paper from 148 mm (5.8 inches) to 257 mm (10.1 inches) wide with the manual insertion slot. Tips for using the paper cassette The tips below help you get the best performance when printing with the cassette. Cl Load paper in the paper cassette before you turn on the printer. When the printer receives the data from the computer, it loads a single sheet automatically and begins to print. Cl If the printer runs out of paper during a print job, reload the paper cassette and press the FF button to load the paper. Q Press the FF button to eject a sheet of loaded paper. 24-Pin Printers 1/94 AP-3260-9