Using an External Device with Your Product

Follow the instructions in these sections to use your product with an external device, such as a camera, smartphone, flash drive, or other device.

Wireless Printing from a Mobile Device

Printing from a Camera Connected to Your Product

Viewing or Printing from a USB Flash Drive or External Device

Charging a USB Device Using Your Product

Wireless Printing from a Mobile Device

You can print photos, documents, web pages, and more from a compatible wireless mobile device, such as a smartphone, iPhone, tablet, iPad, or iPod.

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Set up your product for wireless printing as described on the Start Here sheet.

2.

Visit www.epson.com/connect to learn more about mobile device printing and check the compatibility of your mobile device.

3.

Download and install one of the available printing applications for your mobile device, such as Epson iPrint and PrintJinni for Epson.

4.

Connect your mobile device to the same wireless network that your product is using.

5.

Print from your mobile device to your product.

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Printing from a Camera Connected to Your Product

If you have a digital camera that supports PictBridge printing, you can connect it to the product and print your photos directly from the camera. Check your camera manual to see if it is compatible.

Note: Your photos must be in JPG format and sized from 80 × 80 to 9200 × 9200 pixels. Epson cannot guarantee the compatibility of your camera. Some combinations of paper type, size, and layout may not be supported, depending on your camera and the product settings.

Connecting and Printing From a Camera

Selecting Print Settings for Printing from a Camera

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Connecting and Printing From a Camera

Before you connect your camera, make sure the product is turned on but not printing.

1.

Remove any memory cards from the product.

2.

Load the paper you want to use for printing.

3.

Connect the USB cable that came with your camera to the USB port on the front of your product.

Note: You cannot use the USB port to transfer images from your camera to your computer.

4.

Turn on your camera.

You see this screen:

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5.

Follow the instructions that came with your camera to select and print your photos.

When you finish printing, turn off your camera and disconnect it from the product.

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Removing a Memory Card

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Selecting Print Settings for Printing from a Camera

Before printing from your camera, you can select the print settings you will use for printing your photos.

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Press the Home button, if necessary.

2.

Press the arrow buttons and then select Setup.

3.

Press the arrow buttons and then select External Device Setup.

You see this screen:

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4.

Select Print Settings.

You see this screen:

5.

Select the print settings you want to use, then press the Back button.

6.

Select Photo Adjustments and press the OK button.

You see this screen:

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Select the photo adjustments you want to use, then press the Home button to exit.

After you select settings, you are ready to connect your camera and print your photos.

Print Settings - Camera

Photo Adjustments - Camera

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Print Settings - Camera

Select the Print Settings options you want to use when printing photos from your camera.

Print settings

Paper Size

Paper Type

Layout

Available options Description

Various paper sizes Indicates the size of paper you have loaded

Various paper types Indicates the type of paper you have loaded; see the list of paper types for copying (available options depend on the selected Paper Size setting)

Borderless Expands the image to the edge of the paper (slight cropping may occur)

Leaves a small margin around the image With Border

2-up, 4-up, 8-up, or Print 2, 4, 8, or 20 photos on one sheet

20-up

Upper ½ or Lower ½ Print one photo in the upper or lower half of the sheet

Photo ID Prints 4 ID-sized photos on one sheet

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Print settings

Quality

Available options Description

Draft Provides lower quality for draft printing

Standard Quality

Best

Provides good quality for most prints

Provides the highest quality for important prints

Expansion Standard

Medium

Minimum

Expands images correctly for most borderless prints

Expands images slightly less for borderless prints

Expands images the least for borderless prints (you may see some white border)

Prints the date the photo was taken on Date On

Off

Camera Settings Print Info. on

Photos

Fit Frame

Camera Text

Landmark

On

Prints your camera's shutter speed, aperture, and ISO speed

Prints text that you added in your camera

Prints location information embedded in a photo by cameras that have a built-in GPS feature

Automatically crops the photo to fit into the selected photo layout

Turns off automatic cropping

Prints at normal speed Bidirectional

Off

On

Off

CD Inner/Outer Range of measurements

CD Density Standard Density

Darker

Slows down printing to improve print quality

Selects inner and outer diameter for printing on CDs/DVDs from your camera

Adjusts the print density when printing on CDs/DVDs from your camera

Darkest

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Photo Adjustments - Camera

Select the Photo Adjustment options you want to use when printing photos from your camera.

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Photo

Adjustment settings

Fix Photo

Available options Description

Fix Photo On

Fix Photo Off

P.I.M

Scene Detection People

Landscape

Fix Red-Eye

Night Scene

On

Filter

On

Sepia

Automatically adjusts the brightness, contrast, and saturation of the photo based on the Scene Detection setting that is selected

Turns off automatic adjustments; see Note below

Uses your camera's PRINT Image Matching or Exif Print adjustments

Optimizes the Fix Photo adjustments for specific types of photos; select the option that best matches your photo content

Automatically fixes the red-eye effect in photos

B&W

Various settings

Applies a sepia tone filter to the viewed or printed photo

(does not alter the photo data)

Applies a black-and-white filter to the viewed or printed photo (does not alter the photo data)

Adjust individual qualities in your photo Brightness

Contrast

Sharpness

Saturation

Note: Fix Photo uses a sophisticated face recognition technology to optimize photos that include faces.

For this to work, both eyes and the nose must be visible in the subject's face. If your photo includes a face with an intentional color cast, such as a statue, you may want to turn off Fix Photo to retain the special color effects.

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Viewing or Printing from a USB Flash Drive or External Device

You can view and print photos from a USB thumb drive or other external storage device, such as an external hard drive or CD/DVD burner.

Note: Make sure the files on your device are compatible with the product.

USB Device File Specifications

Connecting and Using a USB Flash Drive or External Device

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USB Device File Specifications

You can print external device files that meet these specifications.

File format

Image size

Number of files

JPEG with the Exif version 2.3 standard

80 × 80 pixels to 9200 × 9200 pixels

Up to 9990

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Connecting and Using a USB Flash Drive or External Device

Before you connect your thumb drive or device, make sure the product is turned on but not printing.

Note: Epson cannot guarantee the compatibility of your drive.

1.

Remove any memory cards from the product.

2.

Load the paper you want to use for printing.

3.

Insert your USB thumb drive or the USB cable that came with your device to the USB port on the front of your product.

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4.

Insert storage media (such as a CD) into your drive, if necessary.

5.

If there are folders on your storage media, select the folder you want and press the OK button.

You can view and print your photos from the LCD screen.

When you finish printing, make sure the access light on the drive is not flashing, then remove or disconnect it from the product.

Caution: Do not remove the USB drive or turn off the product when the access light is flashing, or you may lose photos on the drive.

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Removing a Memory Card

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Loading Paper

Viewing and Printing Photos

Charging a USB Device Using Your Product

You can charge your cell phone, music player, or other portable device by connecting it to the product.

All you need is a user-supplied USB cable that is designed to work with your device.

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Caution: Make sure your portable device complies with USB 2.0 standards. Devices that draw more than 500 mA may damage your Epson product. Epson cannot guarantee the compatibility of your device. Contact the device manufacturer for more information.

1.

Turn on your product.

2.

Connect your portable device to the USB port on the front of the product.

3.

Leave your product on while charging (it will continue to charge even after going into sleep mode).

Note: You cannot use the USB port to transfer images from your device to your computer. If you want to transfer images, use the memory card slots instead. Disconnect your portable device before inserting a memory card.

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