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User’s
Guide
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Copyright Notice All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. The information contained herein is designed only for use with this EPSON printer. EPSON is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to other printers. Neither SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION nor its
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Contents C Special Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Welcome About Your Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Getting More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Warnings, Cautions, Notes, and Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Registering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Reading Your Reference Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Choosing the Right Paper and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Printing Handling Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 2 Printing on Photo Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Printing on Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Basic Printing with Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Basic Printing on a Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Printing with Specia
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Scanning to an Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Registering New Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Removing Applications or Changing Properties . . . . . 100 Quick Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Setting Up the EPSON Scanner Monitor (Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Selecting an Application in EPSON Smart Panel . . . . 102 Faxing with Smart Panel . . .
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Diagnosing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Solving Running a Printer Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 7 Problems EPSON Stylus Scan Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Solving Problems Setting Up the EPSON Stylus Scan or Installing Its Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Solving Problems with Printing and Copying
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Welcome ® The EPSON Stylus Scan 2500 is the complete solution for W full-featured printing, scanning, and copying in a single device, without compromising quality. It’s the ideal printer for business graphics, single-page layout proofs, digital photography—or any project you create on your computer. It’s also a 36-bit professional color scanner that lets you capture images with amazing detail. You can scan, then e-mail or fax images, or publish them on a web site. You can even scan in a p
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■ Quick scanning, which lets you automatically send your scan to a target application whenever you press the ] Scan button on the EPSON Stylus Scan control panel ■ Easy-to-use software for printing, scanning, and copying ■ Optional automatic document feeder (included with the EPSON Stylus Scan 2500 Pro model) for copying or scanning up to 20 pages at a time. Also lets you scan and copy legal-size documents. ■ Optional transparency unit for scanning slides, negatives, and transparencies
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■ Fax If you have a modem in your computer, you can send and receive faxes on your EPSON Stylus Scan 2500. Anything that you can scan in or create on your computer, you can fax. The same utility lets you receive incoming faxes. Or ™ you can use eFax to receive faxes through your e-mail. See Chapter 4 for more information. ■ E-mail If you have a modem, an Internet connection, and an e-mail application, you can scan an image or a document, then send it to colleagues, customers, or friends
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® ® ■ Adobe Acrobat Reader Lets you read the on-screen manuals for EPSON Smart ® Panel, WinFax, FAXstf, Adobe PhotoDeluxe, or any other files in the Portable Document Format (PDF). ■ Adobe PhotoDeluxe (on a separate CD-ROM) Image-editing software for enhancing your scanned photos, adding special effects, and creating projects like web pages, business cards, and calendars. Getting More Information There are several sources of information for your EPSON Stylus Scan 2500, including printed mat
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Warnings, Cautions, Notes, and Tips Please follow these guidelines as you read this manual: ■ Warnings must be followed carefully to avoid bodily injury. warning ■ Cautions must be observed to avoid damage to your caution equipment. note ■ Notes contain important information about your EPSON Stylus Scan. tip ■ Tips give you useful hints for printing, scanning, and copying. Registering Please take a minute to fill out the registration card for your EPSON Stylus Scan 2500 and mail it back to u
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M Double-click the Manual icon, then double-click the EPSON STYLUS SCAN 2500 icon. The Reference Guide window opens: note: Click Install Reference Guide to copy the manual to your hard drive so you can read the guide at any time. To read the copied guide, do one of the following: Windows: Click Start, point to Programs, EPSON, and select EPSON Stylus Scan 2500 Reference Guide. Macintosh: Double-click the View Reference 4. Click View Reference Guide. You see this window: Guide icon i
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After expanding the contents, you can click on the topic you want to view. If there’s a right arrow , click it to view subtopics. Then click the topic you want to see. Click here to expand a subtopic. Click here to view a topic. Reading Your Other Electronic note: You probably installed Manuals Acrobat Reader when you installed your other To read your electronic manual for EPSON Smart Panel, EPSON Stylus Scan WinFax, FAXstf, PhotoDeluxe, or any other PDF manuals, 2500 software. If not
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■ For PhotoDeluxe, locate the Getting Started guide (GetStart.pdf) in the English (Windows) or Extras (Macintosh) folder on your Adobe PhotoDeluxe CD-ROM. When you open an electronic manual, you’ll see this toolbar: Show navigation Last page First page pane Next page Previous page With Acrobat Reader, you have several ways to navigate through text: ■ Use the navigation pane on the left side of the screen to move quickly to the topic of your choice. ■ Use the arrow buttons in the toolbar
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Using the EPSON Smart Panel Windows Macintosh You can use the EPSON Smart Panel for all types of scanning, as well as for high-quality copying and photo printing. You can note: Make sure you’ve also use it for quick scanning to any of the Smart Panel installed your EPSON applications (see page 101 for details). Smart Panel software, To open the EPSON Smart Panel, do one of the following: following the instructions on the W ■ Click the Smart Panel icon on the right side of the Start Her
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Copy Utility Click to display online help. Click here to make precise adjustments to the size of the output image. Click to start copying. Click to stop copying in progress. Click to make custom settings. Click to close the Copy Utility. You can use the control panel on your computer screen to make copies of printed pages and photos, with customized settings to enhance your copies. When you make copies using the Smart Panel Copy utility, you have more control over the quality of yo
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Scan to Fax Click the speed-dial buttons, or . . . Click the numbers on the keypad to dial. Then click the Start button. If you have a modem, you can use a virtual “fax machine” on your computer screen to send photos or text. First place your page or photo face down on the EPSON Stylus Scan’s document table, then enter the fax number by clicking the keypad on your screen and click the Start button. The EPSON Stylus Scan scans your document and converts it to a fax image. You can also se
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Scan to E-mail If you have a modem and e-mail service, you can use your EPSON Stylus Scan to send photos or documents. The Scan to E-mail utility saves the scan in any format you choose, including text. Then it opens your e-mail program so you can attach the scanned file and share it with friends or colleagues. For detailed instructions, see “Scanning to E-mail” on page 85. 12 Welcome
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Scan to OCR Optical character recognition, or OCR, converts a scanned text image into text that you can edit in a word processing program. The Scan to OCR utility makes it easy for you to do all the steps in this process: ■ Scan the document ■ Process and edit the text, using a window like this: If you scanned more than one page, click the page in this column that Edit your text you want to here. edit. Click the + or - button to enlarge or reduce the view. This window shows a clos
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Photo Print (Windows) The Photo Print utility gives you an easy way to reprint your photos in any size you want. You can scan in your photos and tip: Try using the EPSON then print them on EPSON snapshot-size photo paper or cards. Photo Paper that came You can also use full-size sheets of photo paper to create in your Media Pack to enlargements or combine several prints on one sheet. print your photos. After you scan or open your images, you see a window like this, where you can select
