Epson Stylus Photo 780 Installation guide

EPSON Stylus Photo 780

Printer Basics

Printed on recycled paper.

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PhotoEnhance, BorderFree, EPSON Software, and EPSON Store are trademarks and Fix-it Flix and Print Lab are

service marks of Epson America, Inc.

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Contents

Welcome! 1

About Your Software 1

About Your Documentation 2

Warnings, Cautions, Notes, and Tips 2

Viewing Your Electronic Reference Guide 3

Watching Printer Movies 5

Printing from Start to Finish 7

Printing with Windows 7

Loading Paper 7

Opening the Printer Software 8

Selecting Printer Software Settings 9

Controlling Printing 10

Printing on a Macintosh 12

Loading Paper 12

Opening the Printer Software 13

Selecting Printer Software Settings 14

Controlling Printing 15

Using PhotoEnhance, Custom, and Advanced Settings 16

Enhancing Photos 16

Enhancing Blue and Green in Photos 17

Using Custom Project Types 18

Using Advanced Settings 19

BorderFree Printing 20

Printing a BorderFree Photo in Film Factory 20

Printing a BorderFree Photo in PhotoImpression 27

Printing on Envelopes 32

Using Special Papers 33

EPSON Matte Paper - Heavyweight 33

EPSON Photo Paper 33

Selecting the Correct Media Type 34

Maintaining Your Printer 35

Cleaning the Print Head 35

Examining the Nozzle Check Pattern 37

Replacing an Ink Cartridge 37

Ink Cartridge Precautions 38

Determining Which Cartridge to Replace 38

Removing and Installing Ink Cartridges 39

Aligning the Print Head 41

Cleaning the Printer 42

Transporting the Printer 42

Problem Solving 45

Identifying Printer Parts 45

Diagnosing Printer Problems 46

Checking the Control Panel Lights 46

Running a Printer Check 47

Problems and Solutions 48

Setup and Software Installation Problems 48

Printing Problems 49

Print Quality Problems 50

Problems with Paper Feeding 52

Miscellaneous Printout Problems 53

Uninstalling and Reinstalling Printer Software 54

Where To Get Help 55

EPSON Technical Support 55

Photo Software Technical Support 56

Requirements and Notices 57

Windows System Requirements 57

Macintosh System Requirements 58

ENERGY STAR Compliance 58

Important Safety Instructions 59

Ink Cartridge Safety Instructions 60

FCC Compliance Statement 61

Declaration of Conformity 61

Epson America, Inc. Limited Warranty 62

Index 63

Welcome!

Your EPSON Stylus®Photo 780 printer is the smart choice for your home or home

office. Print beautiful, borderless, 6-color photo-quality prints with resolutions of up

to 2880 by 720 dpi. Your printer outputs perfect photos for framing, albums,

scrapbooks, school reports, and more.

About Your Software

Your printer includes the following useful photo software applications:

EPSON SoftwareTM Film FactoryTM

Organize, beautify, and print your photos in a flash. With Film

Factory, you collect, arrange, store, edit, and print thousands of

photos from any source: digital camera, picture CDs, photo files,

web sites, or favorite scanned images.

ArcSoftTM PhotoImpressionTM

Arcsoft PhotoImpression is an easy-to-use photo editing program

that lets users edit, enhance, retouch, or add special effects to any

image with just a couple clicks.

QBeoTM PhotoGeneticsTM (Trial Version)

casual computer users easily enhance underexposed, low-contrast,

color-biased, or faded photos. Users may also take advantage of

basic editing tools such as zooming, rotating, cropping, and

red-eye removal. To register your trial version, just follow the

instructions when you start PhotoGenetics.

About Your Documentation

To set up your printer and install its software, see the Start Here poster. This Printer

Basics book contains instructions on:

■Viewing your electronic Reference Guide and printer movies

■Printing with Windows®or on a Macintosh®

■Maintaining the printer

■Solving basic problems

For system requirements, important safety information, and your printer warranty,

see page 57. For detailed information on using your printer and its software, see your

electronic Reference Guide, as described on page 3.

Warnings, Cautions, Notes, and Tips

Warnings must be followed carefully to avoid bodily injury.

Cautions must be observed to avoid damage to your equipment.

Notes contain important information about your printer.

Tips contain additional hints for better printing.

Viewing Your Electronic Reference Guide

Your printer software CD-ROM includes an electronic Reference Guide for your

printer. The manual is in HTML format, so you need a browser—such as Microsoft®

Internet Explorer 3.0 or later or Netscape Navigator®3.0 or later—to view it. If you

are using a different browser, the pages may not display correctly.

A browser is not included on the printer software CD-ROM.

You can view your electronic Reference Guide from the CD-ROM or copy it to your

hard drive and view it from there. Follow these steps:

1. Insert your printer software CD-ROM.

2. Windows: Double-click My Computer, double-click your CD-ROM

drive icon, then double-click the EPSON icon.

Macintosh: Double-click the EPSON CD-ROM icon, then double-click the

EPSON icon.

The Main Menu appears:

3. Click View Reference Guide.

You see a submenu. You can

view the manual from the

CD-ROM or copy the manual

to your hard drive and view it

from there. For details on

viewing it, see the next

section.

If you copied the manual to your hard drive, you can access it at any time, as follows:

Windows: Select Start, Programs, EPSON, and double-click ESP 780 Guide.

Macintosh: Open the EPSON Stylus Photo 780 folder and double-click View

Reference Guide.

Click here

When you first open the Reference Guide, you see this screen:

Click a topic on the left to expand the table of contents.

After expanding the table of contents, you can click on the topic you want to view.

If there’s a right arrow , click it to view subtopics, then click on a topic to go to it.

Click the down arrow to close a subtopic list.

If you see an icon in place of a graphic when viewing your Reference

Guide in Netscape Navigator, click the Reload button to load the

graphic.

Click here to

expand the

table of

contents

Closed list,

click to

expand

Click to go

to topic

Watching Printer Movies

Need help loading plain or special paper, replacing ink cartridges, or cleaning the

print head? Your printer software CD-ROM includes helpful Fix-it FlixSM movies that

explain these common tasks.

Follow these steps to watch your printer movies:

1. Insert your printer software CD-ROM.

2. Windows: Double-click My Computer, double-click your CD-ROM

drive icon, then double-click the EPSON icon.

Macintosh: Double-click the EPSON CD-ROM icon, then double-click the

EPSON icon.

The Main Menu appears:

3. Click Watch Printer Movies.

The main Fix-it Flix screen appears:

4. Click the poster for the movie you want to see. If necessary, select an option on

the next screen. The movie starts playing.

Click here

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