Epson Workforce Pro Wf-4835 Manual
Ling Baus
I've tried a few different applications and all are the same. When I go to print, I get a window that includes a print quality slider at the bottom that includes three settings: draft, normal, and best. The word "draft" is grayed-out. If I try to drag the slider to it, it snaps back to normal in the middle.
I looked in the printer's manual, and it says draft mode can only be selected with "plain paper" selected. But, even when I have plain paper selected, I cannot choose draft quality. In fact, it seems no matter what I try I cannot choose draft quality.
Can anyone tell me how I can select draft print quality, and why I'm having so many problems doing so? Maybe it's to be expected that the Epson isn't letting me select the print mode quality that would save me the most ink.
Based on your screen captures I believe you may have selected Apple's AirPrint driver rather than the Epson driver. This can happen if you add the printer by selecting it from the small pop-up window that appears with a heading of Nearby Printers after you click the plus button in the Print & Scan preference pane.
To confirm which printer driver you are using, open the Print & Scan preference pane and select the Epson in the Printers colum. The right pane will give some details about the printer. If there is mention of AirPrint in the printer Name or Kind, then this will be the issue. The fix would be to remove this printer from Print & Scan and add again. But this time, don't select the Epson from the Nearby Printers pop-up. Instead, click on Add Printer Or Scanner from this pop-up window and from the next Default Add printer window, select the Epson in the list and ensure you select the Epson driver in the Use menu rather than the AirPrint driver.
This worked on my Epson 434. Thank you. I wish I'd looked before printing the 60 pages in color.... but it was the frustration of months of saying, "why can't I print in draft" that culminated in my having to replace the ink cartridge mid print that led me to your answer.
1) When selecting the Epson print driver, in addition to what Pahu said, note that you have have to (a) delete/re-select printer, but note that (b) before you click "ok", there's a dropdown menu on bottom of the pop-up window where you select "airport" or "Epson" etc. print driver to use with the selected printer.
I began setting this printer up last night at about 10:00 p.m. Five hours later, I was still trying to get it to work properly (there was an issue with the scanner). I kept uninstalling and reinstalling different things and trying different options. I guess AirPrint was the last one I had selected.
So now I've been fiddling around with this print quality issue for a couple of hours, and I'd just about had it with all of this. I'm glad you were able to solve it for me, because it would have bothered me all day tomorrow and into Monday (when Epson's tech support would next be available).
Thank you PAHU you deserve a medal!!! Would never had figured this out. You should be paid by epson because I was just about to return my xp-610 because of this. It wouldn't put it pas a printer company to disable draft printing in order to maximise ink profits! But that was not the case so thanks
Thanks a BRAZILLIAN, PAHU ! I've been fighting with my printer on this same issue for quite some time now! Best wishes (and dare I say...) Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Great health, Happiness and Success in all areas of your life!
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