Windows 95 printer adjustments
Printers are available to
application programs, such as QuickBooks, if
they are installed in the Windows
system. Installation of printers is
part of computer setup. This section
describes adjustments in Windows 95.
The next section discusses adjustments in
Windows 3.1 The several screens
involved have not been illustrated. They
are not difficult to follow.
Begin in My Computer
by clicking on Control Panel.
Click on the Printers
icon. In the Printers window, right-click on the subject printer, then click on
Properties. The Properties
window accesses the printer controls.
Details
tab brings a window which probably can stand as is. Click on the
Spool Settings
button to go on to the fourth dungeon and get these choices:
Spool print jobs ...
means XE "spooling" that the application (QuickBooks) formats the print job, and writes it to a hard drive file. Windows reads it from the hard drive and prints it. If spooling is used,
... after last page ...
lets you get back to work most quickly, but requires the most hard drive space. If disk space is limited,
... after first page ...
uses less space. Considering prices of large hard drives, such a problem should not be difficult to solve.
Print directly ... gets the printing
done sooner, but you can’t get back to work
on other things until the entire print job
has been completed by the printer.
Paper
tab brings up the view of paper choices shown above in
Print Reports.
Fonts
tab probably (depending on printer) has some choices about downloading TrueType fonts. Outline soft fonts are most efficient, if available. The next best choice is bitmap soft fonts. Graphics will be slow.
Windows 95 is generally
effective at setting up optimized
conditions. In most cases, the defaults
can be used. When problems are
encountered, try changing some of the above
settings.
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