Stylus Photo R300M

Mac OS 10.x Driver

The paper size and orientation is chosen from the Page Setup menu of Mac apps. The Print Settings menu gives you acess to the Media Type, Color or Black (ink) and Mode, click on Advanced to access the Best Photo and RPM modes as well as the Super Microweave, High Speed and Mirror options.

The Color Management menu lets you adjust the Gamma (1.8, 2.2 or none), manually adjust the brightness, contrast, saturations and colors or select ColorSync to use the Mac's builtin color management or No Color Adjustment for none.

The maintenance options are accessed by running the Printer Utility program found in the Applications folder. You can run a Nozzle Check, initiate the Head Cleaning cycle or Align the printheads. You can also start the Status Monitor - see the next frame.

The Status Monitor lets you visually see how much ink is left in the cartridges.

The Mac driver lacks a preview function but some applications such as iPhoto, which comes with the iMac, provides a print preview of its own as shown above.

Application Software

This is the Photoshop PRINT Image Matching file import filter. You enable it from Photoshop's FILE menu:   FILE - IMPORT - Print Image Matching

This import filter will only display JPEG files that have valid PIM or PIM II info embedded in the Exif header. You can select one file for import or check the "Import consecutively" option to select more than one image file.

Photoshop does not retain the PIM information separately in the JPEG's header file when you import your PIM image. Instead it converts that information in the file and embeds a color space called EPSON RGB 2001. This profile supports all the PIM color advantages and enhancements.

The PIM plug-in works with Photoshop 6.0 or 7.0 (not required for Photoshop CS), and Photoshop Elements 2.0, 1.0. It requires the ICC profiles for the Stylus R300 that are installed with the plug-in (Windows) or the printer driver (Macintosh).

Here's a screenshot of the Epson PrintCD application, it runs on Windows or Mac computers. It is very easy to design simple to incredibly complex CD labels with a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface.

Epson also includes their Film Factory program on the CD for Windows or Mac. This is an easy to use viewing and printing utility that lets you organize your images the same as if they were rolls of film. It has printing options to easily make standard prints, index prints, duplicates, album pages, sticker prints and combo prints. The preview window shows you thumbnails of all of your images and if they are PIM-compliant there is a little PIM icon in the upper right corner across from the file number.