User's Guide Solving Problems Printing Is Too Slow ❏ When printing continuously for approximately more than 10 minutes, printing slows down to prevent the printer mechanism from overheating and being damaged. However, you can continue printing. To return the printer to normal printing speed, cancel printing, and leave the printer idle for at least 30 minutes with the power on. The printer does not recover if the power is off. ❏ Close any unnecessary applications. ❏ Lower the quality setting on the control panel or the printer driver. High quality printing slows down the printing speed. ❏ Enable the bidirectional (or high speed) setting.
When this setting is enabled, the print head prints while moving in both directions, and the printing speed increases. ❏ Windows Select High Speed on the printer driver's More Options tab. ❏ Mac OS X menu > Printers & Scanners (or Print & Scan , Print & Fax ), and then select the printer. Click Options & Supplies > Options (or Driver ). Select On as the High Speed Printing setting. Select System Preferences from the ❏ Disable quiet mode. This feature slows down the printing speed. ❏ Control Panel From the home screen, select Quiet Mode , and then disable it. ❏ Windows Disable the Quiet Mode setting on the printer driver's Main tab.
❏ Mac OS X Select System Preferences from the menu > Printers & Scanners (or Print & Scan , Print & Fax ), and then select the printer. Click Options & Supplies > Options (or Driver ). Select Off as the Quiet Mode setting. Cannot Start Scanning ❏ Connect the interface cable securely to the printer and the computer. ❏ If you are using a USB hub, try to connect the printer directly to the computer. ❏ When using the printer on a network, make sure the printer is connected to the network properly. You can check the connection status from the network icon on the printer window and by printing a network status sheet. If the printer is not connected to the network, see the Network Guide .
❏ Make sure you select the correct printer (scanner) if a scanner list is displayed when you start EPSON Scan. ❏ If you are using any TWAIN-compliant applications, select the printer (scanner) you are using. 117