Epson Stylus 1500 - Printer Features and Settings

Chapter 2
Controlling the Printer
Using the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Using the Default Setting Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Chapter 3
Maintenance
Cleaning the Print Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Replacing the Ink Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Selecting the Correct Ink Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Replacing the Black Ink Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Replacing the Color Ink Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Cleaning the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
Transporting the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Calibrating the Printer When Printing From DOS . . . . . . . . 3-11
Chapter 4
Troubleshooting
Error Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Print Quality Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Printed output is faint, blurred, or of poor quality . . . . . 4-4
Printed image is smeared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Vertical or horizontal lines do not align . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
You see white banding in your printouts . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
The printout contains incorrect or garbled characters . . . 4-6
You see incorrect colors in your printout . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Printing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Printing has stopped but the Pause light is off . . . . . . . 4-8
You see a system memory error message on your PC
and the printer does not print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
The printer sounds like it is printing, but nothing prints . 4-9
The printer prints blank pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Text printing is slow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
You see error messages on your PC because of printing
conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
The printer does not seem to receive print jobs . . . . . . . 4-11
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