Filter
Top Products
Chapter 2 Using the Printer With Windows 2-3
Using the Printer Driver in Windows
You use the printer driver to define the type of printing you plan to do.
The default settings may be adequate for most of your printing
operations, but you will want to change these settings for any special
color printing or when you use media other than plain paper.
Accessing the Printing Options—Windows 98,
Windows 95, or Windows NT 4.0
To view or change your printer settings, you must open the printer
driver dialog box. The printer driver dialog box contains tabs on which
the printing options are displayed.
You can open the printer driver dialog box in one of the following ways:
❍ From within any Windows application, you can select the Print or
Print Setup command.
❍ From the Printers folder, you can select the printer and then select
the Properties command (Windows 98 or Windows 95) or the
Document Defaults command (Windows NT 4.0) from the File
menu.
❍ From the Printers folder, you can select the printer, click the right
mouse button, and then select the Properties command (Windows
98 or Windows 95) or the Document Defaults command (Windows
NT 4.0) from the drop down list.
The title and the tabs you see across the top of the printer driver dialog
box depend on how you start the printer driver and on the operating
system you are using. The Main, Paper, Features, and Maintenance tabs
contain the printing options that make up your printer driver. The other
tabs you see, such as General or Details, relate to your operating system;
for information regarding the options on these tabs, see your Windows
documentation.
Using the Printer
With Windows