Gaining access to printer driver settings
This section lists the common printing features that are controlled through the printer driver. (The printer driver is the software component you use to send print jobs to the printer.) You can change settings temporarily for the print jobs that you print while the program is still open. You can also make permanent changes to the default settings that will be in effect now and in the future.
Operating System Temporarily change settings for | Permanently change default settings* |
jobs printed now |
|
Windows 95, 98, | From the File menu, click Print, select this |
NT 4.0, 2000, Me, and | printer, and then click Properties. (The |
XP | actual steps can vary; this is the most |
| common method.) |
Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Printers or Printers and Faxes.
Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x On the File menu, click Print. Change settings that you want on the various pop- up menus.
On the File menu, click Print. As you change settings on a
Mac OS X | On the File menu, click Print. Change |
| settings that you want on the various pop- |
| up menus. |
On the File menu, click Print. Change settings that you want on the various
UNIX, Linux, and | Some features of the printer driver are available from the embedded Web server, if the printer is |
OS/2 | connected to the network. (See “Using the embedded Web server” on page 60.) |
* Access to default printer settings might be restricted and therefore unavailable.
Using the PCL printer-driver Help (Windows only)
Once you are in the printer driver, you can use its Help, which is separate from the Help in a program. You can activate Help for the printer driver in two ways.
Click the Help button anywhere it appears in the printer driver. The Help windows give
detailed information about the specific printer driver in use.
When you see a i , click it to view information regarding the field, option, or button that the
bubble adjoins.
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