SETTING UP YOUR PRINTER

Epson LQ 590 Dot Matrix printer - Windows 7

UNPACK YOUR PRINTER AND LOAD THE DRIVERS

After you have unpacked your printer, removed all the packing tape and connect your printer to your computer

with a cable. Find your printer’s owner’s manual. You will need this manual for installing the printer for use.

INSTALLING YOUR PRINTER DRIVERS INTO WINDOWS

Follow the directions to install the printer drivers from the supplied CD in the owner’s manual. There is a CD

disk that comes with each printer.

At the end of the installation for Windows, you will be asked if you want to; PRINT A TEST PAGE. Print out

a test page to make sure the printer is working correctly.

IF THE PRINTER FAILS TO RESPOND AND DOES NOT PRINT A TEST PAGE, CALL THE

VENDOR THAT PROVIDED THE PRINTER, OR CALL THE PRINTERS MANUFACTURER.

Your printer should be listed automatically in the printer windows. To check to see if it is installed

correctly;

Step 1 – Click Start Button

Step 2 – Click Control Panel

Step 3 – Click Printers

The next window will appear you should see “Epson LQ590” listed as a printer.

TESTING THE PRINTER WITH AN APPLICATION

Next, you will need to start up Windows Notepad, a printing application, to make sure the printer works with Windows 7.

Step 1 – Click Start Button

Step 2 – Click on “All Programs”

Step 3 – Find and Click on “Accessories”

Step 4 – Find and Click on “Notepad”

With Notepad open, type in anything you want to print, then click on the top navigation bar – “File”,

then “Print”, pick your Epson LQ590 printer and click on it and follow the printer dialogue box and

look to see that the printer printed on paper exactly like you typed it in Notepad

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Please be advised: Epson printer’s installation in Windows 7 has a standard default setting for 8 ½ x 11 inch paper. In the next section, we will have to create a new printer, called Epson Forms Printer. For example, if you are a going to print a LAW 553, which are 22” or longer, you will have to set up your printer to print forms for 28 inches or longer

Setting up your Printer with Windows XP

Open and Select Your Epson Printer you just installed

Step 1 – Click Start Button

Step 2 – Click Control Panel

Step 3 – Click Printers

Highlight Epson printer in the blue rectangle which will make more menu items appear.

Click on Printer server properties to make this window appear

You should see a page that looks like the one above. Scroll down and locate “Letter” and check the

box “Create a new form”

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Erase the Form name: Letter and replace with “Long Forms”. Then increase the Height from 11.00in to

22.00 inches.

Click Save Form then Close

This will return you back to the printers control panel. Click the right mouse button on your Epson

printer and click “Printing preferences”

Click the “Advanced” button. You will see the screen below.

Change the “Paper Size” from “Letter” to “Long Forms” and click ok

Click Ok again which will return you to the printer control panel.

FOR FORMS LONGER THAN 22 INCHES

Verify you Epson printer is still highlighted blue and if it is not left click on your Epson printer and then

click on “Print server properties” again. Select the “Long Forms” form you created earlier. After you

select the form, change the height to 30”. You should now be configured to print long forms.

Click ok and close the printer control panel. You are now ready to print your long contracts.