A GUIDE TO PRINTING

This Chapter provides a convenient on-screen reference to the many features of the driver software supplied with your printer.

HOW TO ACCESS THE DRIVER SCREENS

Most of the features described are accessed via the printer driver screens. How you access them depends on your computer and its operating system.

WINDOWS DRIVERS

The driver windows are tabbed dialogue boxes, offering a wide range choices about how you want to print your documents.

There are two ways to access the driver features from within Windows:

1.Directly from the Windows “Printers” folder (“Printers and Faxes” folder in Windows XP).

If you choose this method any changes you make will become the driver defaults. This means they will remain active for all your applications unless you specifically change them from within the application’s Print dialogue.

2.From your application’s Print dialogue.

If you choose this method any changes you make will usually only last for as long as the particular application is running, or until you change them again. In most cases, once you quit the application the driver defaults will return.

NOTE:

Settings made from the printer’s own control panel are the printer defaults. They determine how your printer will behave unless you specify otherwise from your computer.

The driver defaults override the printer defaults.

Application Print settings override both the printer defaults and the driver defaults.

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