When you finish making your printer driver settings, click OK to apply the settings, or click Cancel to cancel your changes.

Once you have checked your printer driver settings and changed them if necessary, you are ready to print.

Printer Driver Settings Overview

The following tables show the Windows printer driver settings. Note that not every setting is available in all versions of Windows.

Printer settings

Settings

Explanations

 

 

Paper size

Select the size of the paper you want to use. If you

 

do not see your paper size, use the scroll bar to scroll

 

through the list.

 

 

Orientation

Select Portrait or Landscape.

 

 

Paper source

Select the paper source you want to use.

 

 

Resolution/

Select the printing resolution you want. The higher the

Graphics

resolution you select, the more detailed your printout

Resolution

will be; however, increasing the resolution slows

 

printing.

 

 

Dithering

You can leave this option set to Fine, which is the

 

default setting, or select another dithering pattern

 

depending on the kind of printout you want.

 

 

Intensity/

Move the slider to make your printout lighter or

Intensity Control

darker.

 

 

Print quality

Select a print quality option from the Print quality list.

 

If you set Hi-speed to On, you will enter bidirectional

 

printing mode and printing speed will increase.

 

Setting Hi-speed to Off will return the printer to

 

unidirectional printing mode. Printing speed will

 

decrease, but printing precision will improve. Printing

 

with the default settings uses the settings stored in the

 

printer.

 

 

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