Using
the Epson Color Stylus 850 form a PC
The
Epson Stylus850 is a color ink-jet printer available to
users of the GGCS Computer Lab. The cost per page is
$0.75/page for students. Faculty without their own color
printer can use the Epson printer, but must mark down how
many pages are printed on the sheets provided on the printer
table. See the Help Desk File "GGCS Printing Policies".
Related
Help Desk Files
Installing
Printers into Your PC GGCS User
Profile
GGCS
Printing Policies
Photo-Quality
Printing on the Epson Color Stylus
850
Trouble-Shooting
the Epson Color Stylus 850
Printing
to paper
Any
file, other than PostScript (i.e. Adobe Illustrator) files
can be printed directly to paper on the Epson color ink jet.
Install the Epson printer in your GGCS PC User Profile by
following the instructions in the Help Desk File "
Installing Printers into Your PC GGCS User Profile ".
When your document is ready to be printed, select
Print
from the File
menu of the program used to create the document. Select the
GGCS Stylus ($0.75/page) as the Printer
Name in
the Print
Window.
Most applications have unique printing options. These will
be available in a labeled button on the Print
Window.
For example, in the figure showing the Print
Window
above, the printing options for MS Word are available in the
Word
Options
button.
For simple
documents, you can simply click OK
using the default settings for the printer. For first draft
print-outs, select the Speed
mode rather than Quality.
If you are printing a single color page of a long MS Word
document, you can enter the specific pages to print in the
Print
Rang
field. Enter the pages to be printed, or a range of pages
and click OK.
The printer settings can be changed by clicking the
Properties
button to bring up the Properties
Window.
Do not use the Advanced
Settings
unless you are using special ink-jet paper for high
resolution print jobs.
The printer
Layout can be altered by clicking the Layout
tab in the Properties
Window.
The Fit
to Page
option is useful for images that you want to enlarge to fit
on a single page.
A Watermark
is an image placed within your printed document as a subtle
background. This is useful for adding proprietary remarks or
images, perhaps for draft images being sent to a journal for
review.
Printing
PostScript (Adobe Illustrator) Documents
The
Epson color ink-jet is not a PostScript printer. Although it
is possible to send PostScript or Illustrator documents
directly to the printer, colors and shading may be printed
incorrectly. To remedy this problem, the document must be
sent through a PostScript Rip program before being sent to
the printer. Currently this program is not available for the
Windows machines. Open your PS file in Illustrator on the
Macintosh computers and follow the instructions for Printing
PostScript Documents in the Help Desk File "Printing to the
Epson Color Stylus 850 from a Macintosh."
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