New printer and monitor combination

Question

My Epson 5800 and 4200 printers both died at the same time, and shortly afterward my MAG/Innovision 17" monitor also.
I replaced both printers with the Epson Artisan 725 AIO and the monitor with a Dell 2320L LED LCD. Printers from Staples with a double discount, monitor from Best Buy on sale. Saved a total of 100 bucks.
I was very pleasantly surprised to find that the Dell sw added their calibrated profile to my Displays selection and that the Epson scanner defaults produced a scan of a glossy brochure that displayed on the monitor as an excellent match, with the caveat that I set color temp to "cool" on the Dell. I did not do anything with the default gamma, but I reduced the brightness and cranked up the contrast, although neither seemed to do much of anything. I left the type of display set on whatever they call photo instead of multimedia.  Printing the image from Preview with the defaults gave a slightly unsaturated plain paper print, which I understand is common for Epson.  Epson's Support Highlights has a very complete procedure for using their color controls which I believe will allow me to beef the saturation up without problems. For my purposes I will not need to do any further calibration of the monitor, scanner or printer, although I may use Vuescan and my IT-8 anyway, later on, for a compelte loop, as I did with my 5800.
Reading the Epson User Guide, I found that they warned against using any self-adhesive label sheets other than their own, which are not precut but have rulings on the back side for cutting with scissors or paper cutter. They warn that the paper path is tight and precuts may lift off and jam. So, of course I emailed Avery because I have a stock of their label sheets. They replied that they have no reports of problems, but they have not yet clarified whether label sheets should be loaded and printed one at a time from an otherwise empty paper cassette. The 725 uses a front bottom loading cassette paper path with face down stacking, unlike the top loading Epsons  which are back face up loading and feed directly without the up and around path.
Then I realized I needed to ask Epson about their Presentation Matte paper, each package of which comes with a backing sheet  which needs to be placed on the stack behind the matte sheet(s) to be printed. Their reply had a typo so I had to ask again and they too have not clarified the single sheet question. For the time being. I think I will use single sheet in both situations, as the occasions are rare.
All in all, pretty painless.
As a native Martian, I have trouble with the manufacturer's concept of "user friendly" here on  Brflg (our word for "blue").
The Dell controls are on the side at the right bottom and are touch sensitive and I mean SENSITIVE. They also can not be seen, except for the very faint on/off.   I never want to have to deal with them again.    What ever happened to actual buttons and stuff?
I used to do product design and I know you you're supposed to minimize holes and parts count and assembly time/operations, but jeez.
The Epson suffers from the same control panel malady but is much easier to see at least.
Epson also seems to have flimsyized their construction. You get the feeling that you had better be pretty careful with the scanner lid and paper cassette. Epson seems also to believe that burying necessary settings deeper and deeper inside the user interface a la Windows will make you a better person through challenge.

Answer 1

Hi,
Try the steps in the below mentioned document and see if it helps you
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docnam​e=c02866222&tmp_task=solveCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&ju​...
Thanks
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