Epson Stylus Photo 780 Installation guide

EPSON Stylus Photo 780
Printer Basics
Printed on recycled paper.

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Contents
Welcome! 1
About Your Software 1
About Your Documentation 2
Warnings, Cautions, Notes, and Tips 2
Viewing Your Electronic Reference Guide 3
Watching Printer Movies 5
Printing from Start to Finish 7
Printing with Windows 7
Loading Paper 7
Opening the Printer Software 8
Selecting Printer Software Settings 9
Controlling Printing 10
Printing on a Macintosh 12
Loading Paper 12
Opening the Printer Software 13
Selecting Printer Software Settings 14
Controlling Printing 15
Using PhotoEnhance, Custom, and Advanced Settings 16
Enhancing Photos 16
Enhancing Blue and Green in Photos 17
Using Custom Project Types 18
Using Advanced Settings 19
BorderFree Printing 20
Printing a BorderFree Photo in Film Factory 20
Printing a BorderFree Photo in PhotoImpression 27
Printing on Envelopes 32
Using Special Papers 33
EPSON Matte Paper - Heavyweight 33
EPSON Photo Paper 33
Selecting the Correct Media Type 34

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Maintaining Your Printer 35
Cleaning the Print Head 35
Examining the Nozzle Check Pattern 37
Replacing an Ink Cartridge 37
Ink Cartridge Precautions 38
Determining Which Cartridge to Replace 38
Removing and Installing Ink Cartridges 39
Aligning the Print Head 41
Cleaning the Printer 42
Transporting the Printer 42
Problem Solving 45
Identifying Printer Parts 45
Diagnosing Printer Problems 46
Checking the Control Panel Lights 46
Running a Printer Check 47
Problems and Solutions 48
Setup and Software Installation Problems 48
Printing Problems 49
Print Quality Problems 50
Problems with Paper Feeding 52
Miscellaneous Printout Problems 53
Uninstalling and Reinstalling Printer Software 54
Where To Get Help 55
EPSON Technical Support 55
Photo Software Technical Support 56

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Requirements and Notices 57
Windows System Requirements 57
Macintosh System Requirements 58
ENERGY STAR Compliance 58
Important Safety Instructions 59
Ink Cartridge Safety Instructions 60
FCC Compliance Statement 61
Declaration of Conformity 61
Epson America, Inc. Limited Warranty 62
Index 63

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Welcome!
Your EPSON Stylus®Photo 780 printer is the smart choice for your home or home
office. Print beautiful, borderless, 6-color photo-quality prints with resolutions of up
to 2880 by 720 dpi. Your printer outputs perfect photos for framing, albums,
scrapbooks, school reports, and more.
About Your Software
Your printer includes the following useful photo software applications:
EPSON SoftwareTM Film FactoryTM
Organize, beautify, and print your photos in a flash. With Film
Factory, you collect, arrange, store, edit, and print thousands of
photos from any source: digital camera, picture CDs, photo files,
web sites, or favorite scanned images.
ArcSoftTM PhotoImpressionTM
Arcsoft PhotoImpression is an easy-to-use photo editing program
that lets users edit, enhance, retouch, or add special effects to any
image with just a couple clicks.
QBeoTM PhotoGeneticsTM (Trial Version)
Powered by ImageOpTM technology, QBeo PhotoGenetics lets
casual computer users easily enhance underexposed, low-contrast,
color-biased, or faded photos. Users may also take advantage of
basic editing tools such as zooming, rotating, cropping, and
red-eye removal. To register your trial version, just follow the
instructions when you start PhotoGenetics.

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About Your Documentation
To set up your printer and install its software, see the Start Here poster. This Printer
Basics book contains instructions on:
■Viewing your electronic Reference Guide and printer movies
■Printing with Windows®or on a Macintosh®
■Maintaining the printer
■Solving basic problems
For system requirements, important safety information, and your printer warranty,
see page 57. For detailed information on using your printer and its software, see your
electronic Reference Guide, as described on page 3.
Warnings, Cautions, Notes, and Tips
Warnings must be followed carefully to avoid bodily injury.
Cautions must be observed to avoid damage to your equipment.
Notes contain important information about your printer.
Tips contain additional hints for better printing.

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Viewing Your Electronic Reference Guide
Your printer software CD-ROM includes an electronic Reference Guide for your
printer. The manual is in HTML format, so you need a browser—such as Microsoft®
Internet Explorer 3.0 or later or Netscape Navigator®3.0 or later—to view it. If you
are using a different browser, the pages may not display correctly.
A browser is not included on the printer software CD-ROM.
You can view your electronic Reference Guide from the CD-ROM or copy it to your
hard drive and view it from there. Follow these steps:
1. Insert your printer software CD-ROM.
2. Windows: Double-click My Computer, double-click your CD-ROM
drive icon, then double-click the EPSON icon.
Macintosh: Double-click the EPSON CD-ROM icon, then double-click the
EPSON icon.
The Main Menu appears:
3. Click View Reference Guide.
You see a submenu. You can
view the manual from the
CD-ROM or copy the manual
to your hard drive and view it
from there. For details on
viewing it, see the next
section.
If you copied the manual to your hard drive, you can access it at any time, as follows:
Windows: Select Start, Programs, EPSON, and double-click ESP 780 Guide.
Macintosh: Open the EPSON Stylus Photo 780 folder and double-click View
Reference Guide.
Click here

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When you first open the Reference Guide, you see this screen:
Click a topic on the left to expand the table of contents.
After expanding the table of contents, you can click on the topic you want to view.
If there’s a right arrow , click it to view subtopics, then click on a topic to go to it.
Click the down arrow to close a subtopic list.
If you see an icon in place of a graphic when viewing your Reference
Guide in Netscape Navigator, click the Reload button to load the
graphic.
Click here to
expand the
table of
contents
Closed list,
click to
expand
Click to go
to topic

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Watching Printer Movies
Need help loading plain or special paper, replacing ink cartridges, or cleaning the
print head? Your printer software CD-ROM includes helpful Fix-it FlixSM movies that
explain these common tasks.
Follow these steps to watch your printer movies:
1. Insert your printer software CD-ROM.
2. Windows: Double-click My Computer, double-click your CD-ROM
drive icon, then double-click the EPSON icon.
Macintosh: Double-click the EPSON CD-ROM icon, then double-click the
EPSON icon.
The Main Menu appears:
3. Click Watch Printer Movies.
The main Fix-it Flix screen appears:
4. Click the poster for the movie you want to see. If necessary, select an option on
the next screen. The movie starts playing.
Click here