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My children enjoy creating artwork in paint or paint.net, and often want to print it. But when printing an image file, Windows 7 brings up a special "Print Pictures" dialog instead of the normal print dialog, and only photo papers are selectable. I just want to print on standard printer paper. Can I somehow force Windows to let me use that? The only workaround I have found is to copy-paste into a document file type first, or print to PDF first, and then print THAT file. And that annoys me.

I guess it's relevant, so I'll mention I'm printing with an Epson WF-3620.

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  • Depends on your printer driver. My printers allow me to select paper type irrespective of what I'm printing.
    – Karan
    May 25, 2015 at 17:41

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There is a list of profiles that the printer uses. Select the Standard profile:

  • Open Paint
  • Press Ctrl-p to print
  • Select the printer
  • Press Settings
  • Press "Dokumente Standardqualität" (or the English equivalent)

The picture shows the (german) dialogs on my computer. If you have not installed the Epson driver yet I advise you to do so.

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  • Wow, thanks for responding to this question! I still hadn't figured this out 2 years later...and although your dialogs look different (in addition to being in a different language) I was able to find what I needed. Thanks!
    – Ben
    Jul 6, 2017 at 0:17
  • For me, on the special "Print Pictures" dialog there is a tiny "Options" link in the bottom right. From there I can click "Printer Properties" and I get to the dialogs in your screenshot. Selecting "Document - Standard Quality" works great!
    – Ben
    Jul 6, 2017 at 0:19

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