Canon BJ-200ex manual Chapter Using the Printer With Your Software

Chapter 4

Using the Printer With Your Software

Your printer will work with a wide variety of applications, such as spreadsheet, word processing, and graphics programs. This chapter describes how to set up your software applications for your printer.

Application programs include a group of programs, called printer drivers, that help the application communicate correctly with specific printers. Before using the printer with your application program, you need to tell the application what type of printer you are using by selecting the printer driver that corresponds to your printer.

Canon provides a BJ-200ex printer driver for Microsoft Windows. The easiest way to use your printer is to install the Windows driver and perform your print operations through the Windows environment.

If you are using Microsoft Windows, you have already installed the driver (as described in Chapter 2, Setting Up the Printer). Also, in the last chapter, Using the Printer, you learned that there are certain print options you can select through your printer driver.