Apple 12/640PS manual Printing documents, Setting printing properties

Printing documents

When you are printing from Windows, most application programs display a Print dialog box, in which you specify print options such as the number of copies you want printed, the layout, and which paper tray or cassette will be the paper source.

Some application programs also add more choices to the Print dialog box. For information about such options, refer to the documentation that came with the program.

1Choose Print from the File menu.

2In the dialog box that appears, make the selections you want.

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Setting printing properties

You can change the default properties of the PostScript printer driver. For example, you can change the default paper orientation from Portrait to Landscape.

You set printer options in the printer driver Properties dialog box, which you can open in three ways, as explained in the sections that follow:

mfrom the Control Panel

mfrom the Printers folder

mfrom your application

Note: When changing options to print a specific document, it’s preferable to change the options from within the application. Settings you change from within an application will affect that document only and not all documents printed afterwards. Settings you change in an application’s Print dialog box override print options you set in the Properties dialog box.

Opening the printer Properties dialog box from the Control Panel

Click the Start icon on the Task-Bar, select Settings and click Control Panel. Double-click the Printers icon.

Select the printer you want to change and choose Properties from the File menu.

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