Epson SC-F500 Series User Manual page 4

SC-F500 Series User's Guide
Printing Using the HP-GL/2 or HP RTL
Mode from a Computer
Printer Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Basic Print Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
HP-GL/2 Specific Print Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
CAD Application Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Changing the Network Connection
Methods
Switching to Wired LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Switching to Wireless LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Directly Connecting Wirelessly (Wi-Fi Direct). . . . 75
Using the Menu
Menu List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Paper Setting menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Roll Paper menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Auto Sheet Feeder menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Cut Sheet(1 sheet) menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Printer Status menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Settings menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
General Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Printer Status/Print. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Maintenance
Clearing a Clogged Print Head. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Checking the print head for clogging and then
cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Powerful Cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Power Ink Flushing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Refilling Ink and Replacing Consumables. . . . . . . 111
Disposing of Used Consumables. . . . . . . . . . . 111
Checking how much ink remains. . . . . . . . . . . 111
Refilling ink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Replacing Maintenance Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Replacing the Cutter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Problem Solver
What to do When a Message is Displayed. . . . . . . 117
When a Maintenance Call/Printer Error Occurs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
You cannot print (because the printer does not
work). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Contents
The printer operates, but nothing prints. . . . . . 120
The prints are not what you expected. . . . . . . . 121
Feeding or ejecting problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Appendix
Options and Consumable Products. . . . . . . . . . . 129
Epson Special Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Ink bottles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Supported Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Epson Special Media Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Printable area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Roll Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Cut sheets (Auto sheet feeder). . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Cut Sheet (1 sheet). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Moving or Transporting the Printer. . . . . . . . . . . 134
Moving to a Different Location in the Same
Building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
When Transporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Web Config. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Specifications Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
For European users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Where To Get Help
Technical Support Web Site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Contacting Epson Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Before Contacting Epson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Help for Users in North America. . . . . . . . . . . 143
Help for Users in Europe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Help for Users in Taiwan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Help for Users in Australia/New Zealand. . . . . 144
Help for Users in Singapore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Help for Users in Thailand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Help for Users in Vietnam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Help for Users in Indonesia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Help for Users in Hong Kong. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Help for Users in Malaysia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Help for Users in India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Help for Users in the Philippines. . . . . . . . . . . 147
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