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Printing Basics: Checking Printer Status
Checking Printer Status
You can tell the status of a printer by looking at its desktop icon:
Page Setup–Controlling Page
Layout
You control settings such as paper size, scaling, and page
orientation from the hp deskjet Page Setup dialog box. To get to
this dialog box:
1 Open the software program used to create your document.
2 From the File menu, select Page Setup.
Paper Size, Scaling, and Orientation
Icon Description Icon Description
Idle printer (default)
Printing stopped on
default printer
Idle printer (not
default)
Error on default
printer
Printing on default
printer
Printer not available
or connected
Make sure you correctly choose the size of paper,
envelopes, or other media you have in the IN tray.
Enter a number from 5 to
999. Numbers smaller than
100 reduce the image size,
and numbers greater than
100 enlarge it. Changing
size may change
pagination.
Check to automatically adjust margins for
Two-Sided Printing.
Click the appropriate
icon to choose page
orientation.