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CHAPTER 3 RECOMMENDATIONS
The following recommendations are provided for development of printer drivers for the Stylus
Photo 870 printer. The values provided are only starting recommendations. Adjustments to
these values for different halftone modules may improve driver output quality.
3.1 Printing Mode Settings of the EPSON Stylus COLOR 460
The EPSON Stylus Photo 870 supports the following printing modes. More information
regarding commands for these modes of printing can be found in the Individual Command
Specifications portion of this paper.
Table 4 Recommended Print Mode settings
Printing mode
Print density
(horizontal x vertical)
Micro Weave 02H value of
SN Command
Economy
120(360)dpi x 120dpi
OFF
03
Normal
360dpi x 360dpi
OFF
02
Normal
360dpi x 360dpi
ON
01
Fine
360dpi x 720dpi
ON
00
Photo(720)
720dpi x 720dpi
ON
00
Photo(1440)
1440dpi x 720dpi
ON
00
3.2 Color Ink Mode Setting Recommendations for the Stylus COLOR 870
Table 5 Color ink printing recommendations.
Media Print quality Resolution
dpi
Bi-directional
printing
Plain paper Normal 360x360 ON
Photo(720) 720x720 ON
360dpi Ink Jet Paper Normal 360x360 OFF
Photo Quality Ink Fine 360x720 ON
Jet Paper Photo(720) 720x720 ON
Matte Paper -
Fine 360x720 ON
Heavyweight
Photo(720) 720x720 ON
Photo Paper Fine 360x720 ON
Photo(720) 720x720 ON
RC Paper Fine 360x720 ON
Photo(720) 720x720 ON
Photo Quality Glossy
Film
Photo(720) 720x720 OFF
Ink Jet Transparencies Normal 360x360 OFF
