How to Set Printer Preferences
You can set printer preferences, such as being able to print in
color or black and white, print in draft quality (which uses less ink) or high
quality (which produces a darker, crisper image), and more. Fortunately, you
can modify these settings once for all documents you print.
1.Choose
Start→Devices and Printers (in the Hardware and Sound group).
In the resulting Devices and Printers window, any printers you
have installed are listed.
2.Right-click a printer and then choose Printing
Preferences.
The Printing Preferences dialog box appears. The settings in the
Printing Preferences dialog box may differ slightly depending on your printer
model; color printers offer different options from black and white printers,
for example.
3.Click
any of the tabs to display various settings, such as Color.
Note that different printers may display different choices and different
tabs in this dialog box, but common settings include
Color/Grayscale: If you have a color printer, you have
the option of printing in color. The grayscale option uses only black ink.
Quality: You can print in fast or draft quality (these settings may
have different names depending on your manufacturer) to save ink, or you can
print in a higher or best quality for your finished documents. Some printers
offer a dpi setting for quality — the higher the dpi setting, the better the
quality.
Paper Source: If you have a printer with more than one
paper tray, you can
select which tray to use for printing. For
example, you may have 8½-x-11-inch paper (letter sized) in one tray and
8½-x-14-inch paper (legal sized) in another.
Paper Size: Choose the size of paper or envelope you’re printing to.
In many cases, this option displays a preview that shows you which way to
insert the paper. A preview is especially handy if you’re printing to envelopes
and need help figuring out how to insert them in your printer.
4.Click
the OK button to close the dialog box and save settings and then click
the Close buttonto close other open Control Panel windows.
Whatever settings you make using the procedure in this task are
your default settings for all printing you do. However, when you’re printing a
document from within a program such as Works word processor, the Print dialog
box you display gives you the opportunity to change the printer settings for
that document only.