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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980
sheet feeder
paper support
Printer Specifications
Printing
right edge guide
Printing method On-demand ink jet
left edge
printer
guide
cover
Nozzle configuration
black 192 nozzles
color 288 nozzles (96 each cyan, magenta,
output
tray
yellow)
Resolution Maximum 2880 × 720 dpi
Input buffer 256KB
Print direction Bidirectional with logic seeking
output tray
extensions ™
Control code ESC/P2 and raster graphics code,
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EPSON Remote, and IBM X24E
emulation code
thickness l
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 Ink Cartridges Interfaces Black ink cartridge Color ink cartridge Parallel interface Specification (T003011) (T005011) Forward channel Color(s) Black Cyan, magenta, and yellow Specification Description Print capacity* 1200 pages (A4, ISO/IEC 570 pages (A4, 5% Data format 8-bit parallel, IEEE-1284 compatibility mode 10561 letter pattern); coverage at 360 dpi) Synchronization STROBE pulse 840 pages at 5% Handshake timing BUSY and ACKNLG signals coverage at 360 dpi) Signa
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 Paper Paper type Size Paper types Thickness Weight Single sheets Letter (8.5 × 11 inches) Plain paper, bond paper, 0.003 to 0.004 inch 17 to 24 lb 2 A4 (210 × 297 mm) and special ink jet papers (0.08 to 0.11 mm) (64 to 90 g/m ) A5 (148 × 210 mm) distributed by EPSON × B5 (182 257 mm) Legal (8.5 × 14 inches) Half letter (5.5 × 8.5 inches) Executive (7.5 × 10 inches) Transparencies and Letter (8.5 × 11 inches) Transparencies and glossy —— glossy film A4 (210 × 297 mm) fi
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 Printable Area Media A Single sheets Paper name Size Part number and cards EPSON 360 dpi Ink Jet Letter S041060 Paper A4 (8.3 x 11.7 inches) S041059 BL BR EPSON High Quality Ink Letter S041111 Jet Paper A4 (8.3 x 11.7 inches) S041117 EPSON Photo Quality Ink Letter S041062 Jet Paper A4 (8.3 x 11.7 inches) S041061 C1 C2 Legal S041067 EPSON Photo Quality Ink A6 (4.1 x 5.8 inches) S041054 Jet Cards Envelopes EPSON Photo Paper 4 x 6 inches S041134 Letter S041141 A A4 (8.3 x 11.
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 Control Panel Installing an Ink Cartridge for the First Time The four lights on your printer’s control panel show the printer’s status and alert you to problems like paper jams. 1. Plug the power cord into a grounded outlet. Don’t use an outlet controlled by a wall switch or timer, paper out light or one that uses the same circuit as a large appliance. black ink This may disrupt the power, which can erase the out light printer’s memory or
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 6. Place the black ink cartridge in its holder with the label Testing the Printer facing up and toward the back of the printer. Then press down the clamp until it locks into place. You can run a printer check to determine whether the problem comes from the printer itself or some other source. Follow these steps to run the printer check: 1. Make sure both the printer and computer are turned off. 2. Disconnect the interface cable from the printer. 3. Make sure
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 ❏ Load paper only up to the arrow mark on the left edge Printing on Special Media guide. ❏ Remember to select the correct Media Type and Paper Size Whether you print on plain paper or special media, you need for your paper. to make sure you select the correct Media Type setting in the printer software, as shown in the following table. ❏ If the special media has protective sheets between the sheets of media, be sure to remove the protective sheets before Then select t
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 If you’re printing a document that is longer than 60 pages, Media Guidelines you’ll need to print it in sections. For example, if you were EPSON Photo Quality Self- One sheet at a time printing a 175-page document, you would print it in three Adhesive Sheets and Iron-On Cool Peel Transfer Paper sections of 30, 30, and 28 sheets of paper. EPSON Photo Stickers One sheet at a time If you’re printing a document with an odd number of EPSON Photo Paper Up to 20 sheet
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 If ink gets on your hands, wash them thoroughly with Removing and Installing Ink Cartridges soap and water. If ink gets into your eyes, flush them You can replace a cartridge when the B black or A color ink immediately with water. out light is either flashing or on. (If you perform these steps 7. Lower the new ink cartridge into its holder with the label when both ink out lights are off, the printer cleans the print facing up and toward the back of the p
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 3. If you need to replace only the color ink cartridge, press the 8. Lower the new ink cartridge into its holder with the label E load/eject button again until the print head moves to the facing up and toward the back of the printer. color ink cartridge replacement position. If the print head moves to the home position instead of the color ink cartridge replacement position, try holding down the E load/eject button for three seconds until the print head moves
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 4. Start an application, open a document, and access the Using the Head Cleaning Utility printer settings dialog box. Follow these steps to run the Head Cleaning utility: 5. Click the Utility tab (Windows) or the Utility button 1. Make sure the printer is turned on but not printing, and (Macintosh). You see the Utility menu. both the B black and A color ink out lights are off. 6. Make sure paper is loaded in the printer, click the Nozzle 2. Access the prin
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 3. The S paper out light flashes for about three seconds. While Aligning the Print Head it is flashing, press the E load/eject button. The printer prints a sheet of instructions in English, French, If your printouts contain misaligned vertical lines, you may German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese explaining how need to align the print head. To use the Print Head Alignment to align the print heads. Follow these instructions. utility, the printer must be connec
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EPSON Stylus COLOR 980 3. Remove any paper from the printer and remove the paper support. 4. Open the printer cover. Secure the ink cartridge holder to the printer with tape as shown, then close the printer cover. 5. Push in the output tray extensions and close the tray. 6. Repack the printer and attachments in the original box using the protective materials that came with it. See the Start Here poster for details. Be sure to keep the printer level as you transport it. If you notice a decli
