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- Unbox your epson stylus photo R-260 printer.
- Remove the packing materials from the printer.
- Make sure that no packing materials are left inside the epson stylus photo R-260 printer.
- Then, connect the power cord to the epson stylus photo R-260 printer and an electrical outlet.
- Power on the epson stylus photo R-260 printer using the printer buttons.
- When the printer is turned on, open the scanner unit.
- Open the cartridge cover situated at the right side of your epson stylus photo R-260 printer.
- Now, take the cartridges.
- Uncover the cartridges and remove the yellow tapes alone from the back of the cartridges.
- Do not shake the cartridges as this may cause leakage of the ink.
Insert the cartridges according to the colours specified in the epson stylus photo R-260 printer and close the cartridge cover.Then, close the scanner unit.Your epson stylus photo R-260 printer is physically setup. Replacing thee ink cartridges
- If your epson stylus photo R-260 printer shows red ink light, then one or more number of your printer’s ink levels are low.
- If the red ink light stays on, then the ink is over and you must replace the ink cartridge.
- Also, while you are printing you will receive a message in the printer’s control panel saying which colour of ink is low or which is to replaced.
- In your windows computer, double click on the printer icon in the task bar.
- Your computer will show the ink levels and you can replace the ink cartridge which is necessary to replace.
- Then, while your epson stylus photo R-260 printer is turned on, open the scanner unit.
- Open the cartridge cover and install the cartridges according to the colours specified.
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Epson stylus photo R-260 designing and printing on CDs
- Cleaning the rollers is very important to get wonderful CDs and DVDs print. To clean your rollers, load and eject several sheets of paper.
- Turn on your epson stylus photo R-260 printer.
- Load several sheets of letter size papers in your printer.
- Press the paper button to feed the papers in the printer.
- Repeat pressing the paper button again and again to clean your epson stylus photo R-260 printer’s roller.
Inserting the CD/ DVD in the printer to design
- Turn on your epson stylus photo R-260 printer.
- Open the front panel.
- Set the front tray to the CD/DVD position by pulling the tray lever down.
- Place the CD/ DVD
- Place the CD/ DVD in the tray placing the printing side or the white side up.
- Before printing on your CD/ DVD, make sure that all the files and documents in it are burnt. Otherwise, this may affect the print.
- Gently insert the CD/DVD tray along the base of the front tray until the marks on the CD/DVD tray and the front tray match each other.
- You can design your CDs and DVDs using epson stylus photo R-260, you can use Epson print CD in your Windows computer.
- Go to Start.
- Click on Programs.
- Double click on Epson print CD.
- To set the background image click on the background icon.
- Then, go to file and browse for your image.
- Select your image and click OK.
- To write text in your print, use the alphabets button.
- Do all the designs and choose Save As from the File menu to save the file.
- Open the Applications folder, open the EPSON Print CD folder, then select EPSON Print CD.
- To add a background image, click the background icon.
- To select one of your own images, click Select Background, locate the folder your images are stored in, select the one you want, then click Open.
- Click OK in the Adjust Background window.
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