PCL - Accessing the Printer Properties

Making Printer Settings from an Application

You can make printer settings for a specific application.

To make printer settings for a specific application, open the printer properties dialog box from that application. The following explains how to make settings for the WordPad application provided with Windows NT 4.0.

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B

On the [File] menu, click [Print].

 

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The [Print] dialog box appears.

Select the printer you want to use in the [Name] list, and then click [Properties].

The printer properties dialog box appears.

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Make the necessary settings, and then click [OK].

Click [OK] to start printing.

Note

❒The procedure to open the printer properties dialog box may vary depend- ing on the application. For details, see the manuals provided with the ap- plication you use.

❒With some applications, the printer driver settings are not used, and the application's own default settings are applied.

❒Any settings you make in the following procedure are valid for the current application only.

❒General users can change the properties displayed in the [Print] dialog box of an application. Settings made here are used as defaults when printing from this application.

Reference

For details, see the printer driver Help.

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