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8.Printing
This chapter explains common printing tasks.
This chapter includes:
• Printer driver features
• Basic printing
• Opening printing preferences
• Using help
• Setting Device Options
• Using special print features
• Using direct printing utility
• Changing the default print settings
• Setting your machine as a default machine
• Printing to a file (PRN)
• MAC printing
• Linux printing
• UNIX Printing
The procedures in this chapter are mainly based on Windows XP.
Printer driver features
Your printer drivers support the following standard features:
• Paper orientation, size, source, and media type selection
• Number of copies
You can also use various special printing features. The following table
shows a general overview of features supported by your printer drivers:
Some models or operating systems may not support all feature(s)
shown in the following table.
(●: Supported, Blank: Not supported)
Feature
PCL/PS
a
/X
PS
PS
Windows MAC Linux Unix
Machine quality
option
●●●●
Poster printing ●
Multiple pages per
sheet
●●●●
Booklet printing ●●●●
Fit to page printing ●●
Reduce and enlarge
printing
●●
Different source for
first page
●●
Cover page options ●●●●
Raster compression ●
(PCL only)
Finishing options ●●●●
Output options ●●●●
Watermark ●
Overlay ●
(PCL only)
Double-sided printing
(duplex)
●●●●
a.The PostScript driver is recommended for best print quality from
PostScript-based applications such as Acrobat Reader®, Adobe
Illustrator®, Adobe Photoshop®, etc.
Feature
PCL/PS
a
/X
PS
PS
Windows MAC Linux Unix