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How To / Using Roll Paper

Printing on Roll Paper

Printing area and margins in Roll Paper
For Windows users
For Macintosh users

Once you have prepared your roll paper and it is loaded in the printer, you must make settings in the printer software in order to print.

Printing area and margins in Roll Paper

You can apply various settings for printing area and margins on roll paper with driver settings. There are two types of margin settings: Even if 3-mm of both side of paper or No Margins is selected, the top margin is automatically set to 20 mm.

Refer to the table below for the instructions.

3-mm of both side of paper

Select Roll Paper as the Paper Source in the printer driver.

 

When printing is finished, press the roll paper button once to print a cutting guideline about 12mm from the bottom of the print data.

To print the next print job, press the roll paper button to feed the paper back to the printing position, then apply printing. In this case, the space between the two blocks of print data will be 36mm.

When printing data which spans multiple pages or when printing data without pressing roll paper button after printing one block of data, the margin between data will be set to 0.

No Margins

Select Roll Paper as the Paper Source and check the No margins box in the printer driver.

 

When printing is finished, press the roll paper button once to print a cutting guideline about 12mm from the bottom of the print data.

To print the next print job, press the roll paper button to feed the paper back to the printing position, then apply printing. In this case, the space between the two blocks of print data will be 36mm.

When printing data which spans multiple pages or when printing data without pressing roll paper button after printing one block of data, the margin between data will be set to 0.


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For Windows users

Note:
  • When printing on roll paper, you cannot use the Reverse Order or Rotate by 180° features, select Maximum or Centered as the Printable Area setting, or use the functions on the Layout menu.
  • Do not select PhotoEnhance in the printer software, as this may cause offsets in the print area at logical page boundaries.

After the roll paper is loaded in the printer, follow the steps below to configure your printer software for printing.

 Open the file you want to print in the appropriate application.

Access the printer software from within the application.

Note:

For details on accessing the software, refer to the application's user manual. In many applications, you can select Print directly from the File menu, then access the printer software by clicking the Properties button.

Click the Paper tab and select Roll Paper as Paper Source and appropriate page size.

Paper Source

Roll Paper

A 3-mm margin will be left along both sides of the paper.

No Margins

No left or right margins will be left. Select paper size from the Paper size list.

Paper Size

Page Size

Select a predefined paper or page size from the list or define a custom size.

If you select a predefined paper or page size, when the data exceeds the selected size, it will be printed as individual pages on the roll paper. A 36-mm margin will be printed between each page of data in a print job when you press the roll paper button.

Define a custom size by selecting User Defined in the list. This will open the User Defined Paper Size or User Defined Page Size dialog box where you can specify the length and width of your document. As long as your paper or page size is large enough, the data will be printed as one page. This will allow continuous printing of the data without page breaks.

Note:

Do not select Sheet Feeder as the Paper Source setting in the printer software. Doing so will cause unnecessary paper to be fed after each print job. If you accidentally select Sheet Feeder, cut the paper off at the back of the printer before it feeds into the sheet feeder, then turn the printer power off and on again.

Make the Roll Paper Option settings at the bottom of the dialog box.

The Roll Paper Option settings are as follows:

Banner Mode

Select this mode when you want to print multi-page data as continuous data on the roll paper, rather than as individual pages. When this check box is selected, the Save roll paper check box is enabled.

Cut Sheet Mode

Select this mode when you want to print multi-page data as individual pages, rather than as continuous data. When this check box is selected, the Print page frame check box is enabled.

Save roll paper

Select this check box when you do not want any paper to be fed after the data is printed. This feature is only available when Banner Mode is selected.

Print page frame

Select this check box to print a line on the roll paper between pages in a multi-page document to indicate where the paper should be cut. This feature is useful when it is unclear where the page breaks should be or where the paper should be cut after the last page has been printed. This feature is only available when Cut Sheet Mode is selected.

Click the Main tab and select media that you use as the Media Type setting.

Click OK to close the printer software. Print your document and proceed to the next section, Removing the Roll Paper from the Printer.


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For Macintosh users

Note:
  • The procedures described in this section may vary, depending upon the application that you are using. Check your application's user manual for details.
  • When printing on roll paper, you cannot use the Reverse Order or Rotate by 180° features, select Maximum or Centered as the Printable Area setting, or use the functions in the Layout dialog box.
  • Do not select PhotoEnhance in the printer software, because it may cause offsets in the print area at logical page boundaries.

After the roll paper is loaded in the printer, make sure that the Stylus Photo 1280 or 890 is selected in the Chooser before proceeding. Follow the steps below to configure your printer software for printing.

 Open the file that you want to print in the appropriate application.

Open the printer software.

Note:

In many applications, you can do this by selecting Page Setup (or Print Setup) on the File menu.

Select Roll Paper as Paper Source and make the appropriate Paper Size setting. You can select either a predefined paper size or create a custom paper size.

Make the other settings as necessary. Refer to the table below for details. When finished, click OK.

The Roll Paper Option settings are as follows:

Banner Mode

Select this mode when you want to print multi-page data as continuous data on the roll paper, rather than as individual pages. When this check box is selected, the Save roll paper check box is enabled.

Cut Sheet Mode

Select this mode when you want to print multi-page data as individual pages, rather than as continuous data. When this check box is selected, the Print page frame check box is enabled.

Save roll paper

Select this check box when you do not want any paper to be fed after the data is printed. This feature is only available when Banner Mode is selected.

Print page frame

Select this check box to print a line on the roll paper between pages in a multi-page document to indicate where the paper should be cut. This feature is useful when it is unclear where the page breaks should be or where the paper should be cut after the last page has been printed. This feature is only available when Cut Sheet Mode is selected.

Select Print on the File menu to open the Print dialog box.

Make the appropriate Media Type setting, then click the Print button to print your document.

Note:

Click the Preview icon button to change the Print button to a Preview button. Click the Preview button to see a preview of the printout.


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