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Getting to Know Your Printer
Features
Your EPSON
®
LQ-300+II 24-pin dot matrix printer provides high-quality printing and superior performance in a compact design. Its features include:
❏ A variety of paper paths to suit your printing needs.
❏ The ability to handle a wide range of paper types, including continuous paper, multipart forms (with one original and up to three copies), labels, single sheets, and envelopes.
❏ High-speed printing of up to 300 cps (characters per second) at 10 cpi (characters per inch).
Your printer comes packaged with the printer driver and other software, including the EPSON Status Monitor 3 utility for
Microsoft
®
Windows
®
XP, Me, 98, 2000, or NT 4.0. The EPSON
Status Monitor 3 utility lets you check the status of your printer quickly and easily.
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Table of contents
- 1 Copyrights and Trademarks
- 1 Copyrights
- 1 Trademarks
- 3 Safety Instructions
- 3 Warnings, Cautions, and Notes
- 3 Hot Parts Caution Symbol
- 3 Important Safety Instructions
- 7 For United Kingdom users
- 8 For United Kingdom, Singapore, and Hong Kong users
- 9 Contents
- 13 Getting to Know Your Printer
- 13 Features
- 14 Paper Handling
- 14 Printing on Continuous Paper
- 15 Printing with the push tractor
- 18 Removing a printed document from the push tractor
- 19 Switching back to single sheets
- 19 Printing with the pull tractor
- 24 Adjusting the top-of-form position
- 27 Advancing the paper to the tear-off edge
- 30 Printing on Single Sheets
- 31 Loading single sheets
- 33 Printing on Special Paper
- 33 Adjusting the paper thickness lever
- 34 Multipart forms
- 35 Labels
- 36 Envelopes
- 37 Printer Software
- 37 About Your Printer Software
- 38 Using the Printer Driver with Windows Me and 98
- 39 Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications
- 41 Accessing the printer driver from the Start menu
- 42 Changing the printer driver settings
- 43 Using the Printer Driver with Windows XP, 2000, and Windows NT 4.0
- 44 Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications
- 47 Accessing the printer driver from the Start menu
- 49 Changing the printer driver settings
- 50 Printer Driver Settings Overview
- 53 Using EPSON Status Monitor 3
- 54 Setting up EPSON Status Monitor 3
- 56 Accessing EPSON Status Monitor 3
- 57 Installing EPSON Status Monitor 3
- 58 Setting Up Your Printer on a Network
- 58 Sharing the printer
- 59 Setting up your printer as a shared printer
- 63 Setting for the clients
- 70 Installing the printer driver from the CD-ROM
- 72 Canceling Printing
- 73 Uninstalling the Printer Software
- 73 Uninstalling the printer driver and EPSON Status Monitor 3
- 78 Control Panel
- 78 Using the Control Panel
- 78 Control Panel Buttons and Lights
- 80 Selecting a built-in font
- 81 About Your Printer’s Default Settings
- 87 Changing default settings
- 89 Troubleshooting
- 89 Using the Error Indicators
- 91 Problems and Solutions
- 92 Power Supply
- 93 Printing
- 98 Paper Handling
- 101 Options
- 105 Correcting USB Problems
- 109 Printing a Self Test
- 111 Contacting Customer Support
- 111 Technical Support Web Site
- 112 Options and Consumables
- 112 Installing and Using Options
- 112 Cut-sheet feeder
- 116 Pull tractor unit
- 118 Roll paper holder
- 120 Color upgrade kit
- 123 Print server
- 124 Replacing the Ribbon Cartridge
- 124 Genuine EPSON ribbon cartridge
- 124 Replacing the ribbon cartridge
- 128 Product Information
- 128 Printer Parts
- 130 Printer Specifications
- 130 Mechanical
- 133 Electronic
- 135 Electrical
- 135 Environmental
- 136 Paper
- 139 Printable area
- 142 Paper alignment
- 143 Command Lists
- 143 EPSON ESC/P 2 control codes
- 144 IBM 2390 Plus emulation control codes
- 146 Standards and approvals
- 146 Safety Approvals
- 146 CE marking
- 147 Cleaning the Printer
- 148 Transporting the Printer
- 149 Glossary
- 153 Index