Epson LQ-680 - Chapter 4 Changing Printer Settings From the Printer’s Control Panel; Chapter 5 Troubleshooting; Using the Error Indicators; Problems and Solutions

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Changing the Printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16
Printer Driver Settings Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17
Using the EPSON Remote! Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
Installing EPSON Remote! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
Accessing EPSON Remote! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
Using the EPSON Status Monitor 3 Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20
Setting up EPSON Status Monitor 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20
Accessing EPSON Status Monitor 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22
Chapter 4 Changing Printer Settings From the Printer’s Control
Panel
Selecting a Built-In Font and Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
About Your Printer’s Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Changing default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting
Using the Error Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Power supply problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Single-sheet paper loading or feeding problems. . . . . . . . . 5-6
Continuous paper loading or feeding problems . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Printing position problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
Printing or printout quality problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
Clearing Paper Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
Aligning Vertical Lines in Your Printout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17
Printing a Self Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
Printing a Hex Dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
Appendix A Enhancing Your Printer With Options
Cut-Sheet Feeders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
Installing the cut-sheet feeder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Loading paper from the cut-sheet feeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6
Switching between the tractor and the cut-sheet feeder. . . A-13