Printer User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Copyright and Trademarks
- Operating System Versions
- Contents
- Safety Instructions
- Getting to Know Your Printer
- Printing Tasks
- Using the Control Panel
- Installing Options
- Replacing Consumable Products
- Cleaning and Transporting the Printer
- Troubleshooting
- Clearing Jammed Paper
- Printing a Configuration Status Sheet
- Operational Problems
- Printout Problems
- Print Quality Problems
- The background is dark or dirty
- White dots appear in the printout
- Print quality or tone is uneven
- Half-tone images print unevenly
- Toner smudges
- Areas are missing in the printed image
- Completely blank pages are output
- The printed image is light or faint
- The non-printed side of the page is dirty
- Print quality decreased
- Memory Problems
- Paper Handling Problems
- Problems Using Options
- Correcting USB Problems
- Status and Error Messages
- Canceling Printing
- Printing in the PostScript 3 Mode Problems
- The printer does not print correctly in the PostScript mode
- The printer does not print
- The printer or its driver does not appear in utilities in the printer configuration (Macintosh only)
- The font on the printout is different from that on the screen
- The printer fonts cannot be installed
- The edges of texts and/or images are not smooth
- The printer does not print normally via the USB interface
- The printer does not print normally via the network interface
- An undefined error occurs (Macintosh only)
- Printing in the PCL6/5 Mode Problems
- The printer does not print
- The printer does not print correctly in the PCL mode (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- The printer does not start manual duplex printing (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- The font on the printout is different from that on the screen
- The edges of texts and/or images are not smooth (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- Cannot print from Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
- About the Printer Software for Windows
- About the PostScript Printer Driver
- About the PCL Printer Driver
- Technical Specifications
- Where To Get Help
- Index
Chapter 10
About the PCL Printer Driver
About the PCL Mode
Hardware requirements
Your printer must meet the following hardware requirements to be able to use the PCL6/PCL5 printer
driver.
Memory requirements for using the PCL6/PCL5 printer driver are shown below. Install optional
memory modules into your printer if the amount of memory currently installed does not meet your
printing needs.
Minimum memory
128 MB
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Printing may not be possible with this amount of memory, depending on the specifics of the job being printed.
System requirements (only for Epson PCL6 printer driver)
To use the PCL6 printer driver, your computer must be running the following Microsoft Windows
versions and your computer must meet the system requirement of the each operating system.
Supported operating systems
Windows Vista/Vista x64
Windows XP/XP x64
Windows Server 2008 x84/Server 2008 x64
Windows Server 2003/Server 2003 x64
Windows 2000
Windows NT 4.0
Windows Me
Windows 98
Windows 95
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