Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper, using a printer or a printing press.
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Could I save printer's ink/toner by changing the font?
I'm developing a Microsoft Word document that reached more than 200 pages and I want to print it using my Laserjet or my father's Inkjet printer.
I can save paper using both sides of each sheet, ...
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How could I save on ink when printing this map?
I need a map of the SMC campus, but I'm really sick of running out of ink after printing one thing and then having to pay ridiculous sums of money to buy more ink.
The map is here:
I would print ...
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Why should I choose either PCL or PS when both are supported
Obviously the answer depends to some degree on the various versions supported, but in general terms - is there any reason I should pick one over the other? PCL for art and PS for text? Does one ...
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Two-page view in Word, shouldn't the first page be on the right?
Greetings Superusers,
I'm putting together a lengthy document in Word, and it's going to be printed and bound duplex.
I've put page-numbers "outside" etc, and all is pretty.
The problem is, in the ...
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How do I calculate the cost of printing a given page?
I have seen questions like How much does a square inch of ink cost and How much more will a high-dpi image cost to print?, but mine isn't asking neither about a specific case, nor about how much ...
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What do you do when you print job won't cancel?
I'm trying to cancel a print job in Vista to an HP 3845. I've rebooted, but it's still there, with Status "Deleting - Printing" thought nothing is happening.
How can I make it really go away?
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Print from a page that doesn't allow any commands?
I have opened a webpage that has an article of very much interest to me. When I use Ctrl+P or right click, it says, "The page forbids you to use any additional commands."
So now how do I print such a ...
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How to disable/destroy forever Chrome's “print preview” option?
This question seems to come up a lot (pretty much every time a new version of Chrome is released). Previous answers such as these no longer apply (or don't work for Mac), however:
How do I get the ...
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Is there a simple way to print multiple images on the same page in Mac OS X?
I'm looking for a simple way to print multiple images on the same page. The default image printing function in Windows lets me select how many images I want on each page. How do I do this on the Mac?
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How to print a large page on multiple smaller pages?
How can I print a larger page (A3) on multiple (two) smaller pages (A4)? This is sometimes called "poster printing", since the objective is to join the smaller printed pages together to form a larger ...
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Adobe acrobat not printing “there were no pages selected to print”
I am constantnly getting the error message "there were no pages selected to print" with acrobat v9 on XP. Anyone know how to get rid of this problem - other than a re-install?
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Printing an A3 (Word) document on an A4 printer
Is there a way to print an A3 sized document on an A4 printer? So I want 2 A4 sheets per A3/Word page. I can export to pdf / something else if Word can't do this.
(For anyone unfamiliar with A3 and ...
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On OS X, how do I print (a web-page) directly into my Google Docs account?
Is it possible to, from the OS X 10.6 print dialog, print the web-page directly into my Google Documents account? I can save as PDF and upload it, but, well, I want to cut out the middleman (ie, me; ...
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What does the “Apply” button do on Windows print dialogs?
This has been bugging me for a long time: All standard Windows print dialogs have an Apply button next to OK and Cancel. What does it do?
Sometimes it seems the application remembers preferences set, ...
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Setting color LaTeX generated PDF to print in black & white
I use LaTeX to generate PDF, and I see that colorful PDF is good for reading on screen but not so good with printing and reading.
Is there any way to disable the color setting to make it all ...
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How to select the page range to print in Windows 8 Modern UI apps?
Today I wanted to print an email from the Mail app (modern UI).
I selected devices from the charms bar, and I chose my printer. The problem is that it was a very long email (a 40 replies unthreaded ...
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Printing transcript with ANSI escape sequence
Is there a way to print a transcript generated using script that is coloured using ANSI escape sequences while preserving the colours?
I am on Mac OS X 10.6, but any tool that works on ...
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IE8 Printing Issue - Shrink to Fit is not Shrinking, right side getting hacked
I'm having this problem in a Sharepoint Extranet site. Several long/wide forms and grids are getting their right sides hacked off when printed. In IE7, Shrink to Fit solves this problem. However in ...
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Poor quality PNG image when printing to PDF in Word 2010
I have a transparent PNG:
The PNG file above was created from an EPS file to a high-resolution PNG, then resized using Photoshop.
I am placing this image into a Word file on a cover page. The ...
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how do I print to a USB drive
I don't own a printer. I want to print on-line documents such as coupons and airline tickets to a USB drive which I will then take to the Staples store for printing.
I will want to keep the bar codes ...
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Restrict print copies on a PDF
We have a very specific use case for an application we're developing, where a user will be presented with a PDF document, which they can print off. However, we need to be able to restrict the PDF so ...
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How can I make Windows *actually* print multiple pages per sheet?
Office 2007 and 2010 have a setting in the print dialog that allows you to print multiple pages per sheet:
However, when I try to print 4 copies of a page with 4 pages per sheet, I get 4 pages with ...
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Printing a Microsoft Word document in outline format
I'm currently typing up notes in Microsoft Word using the outline mode, but when I try to print this document it loses the outlining format and reverts to the original document:
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Where is the “Print Preview” option for Safari on Windows?
I am unable to find a way to generate a print preview using Safari 5.0.7533.16 on Windows XP Pro SP3.
Google searches indicate that either a) there is a way to generate a print preview that I cannot ...
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Batch File Printing
I have a user that has to print out about 220 documents averaging 2-3 pages each. When printed using the standard Windows method of Select All - Right-click - Print it overwhelms either the print ...
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Disable Chromes Ctrl+P handling of printing
How can I disable Google Chrome's CTRL+P handling of printing (i.e. return the keyboard shortcut to Windows and how it handles printing)?
Windows 7 64-bit
Chrome v13.0.782.112
Edit, Now that I know ...
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How do I print an entire page in Firefox?
For my personal records (e.g. receipts), I like to print a web page in Firefox using CUPS print-to-pdf. This works great when the page layout is narrow. However, if the page is too wide, the output is ...
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Why does my printer stop printing after a few lines and then eject the paper?
HP deskjet 1000, MacOSX 10.6.8
HP Deskjet 1000 J110 series:
Status: Idle
Print Server: Local
Driver Version: 1.3.1
Default: Yes
URI: ...
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How to resume CUPS printer from command line?
I have printer in CUPS that due to driver problems (HP 1010) from time to time goes into pause.
I would like to write a shell script that will execute once per hour to resume a printer in CUPS. But ...
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Printing PDF books
I've been taking up reading some of Sonatype's Maven books, available online, but I find it more relaxing to read on paper rather than on screen.
Still, loose A4 sheets do not bring me close enough ...
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Computer prints blank pages before and after content
This would seem like a pretty simple question but I have exhausted every idea I can come up with. I bought a brand new Dell Latitude E5410 not too long ago with Windows 7 OS. I installed office 2010 ...
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Multi-Page PDF Banner/Poster from PDF
I'm looking for a utility that will take one large sized PDF, and split it into smaller PDFs for banner/poster printing. Looking for a linux or multi-platform solution.
More Background
My goal is ...
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Why Turn Collate Off
Why would someone want to print multiple copies of a document and not collate them?
(So, in other words, why print a 5 page document in this order: 11111,22222,33333,44444,55555) instead of ...
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How to avoid printing nearly blank pages?
How many times have you printed an email just to have the last page be 2 or 3 lines of a person's signature (or worse, the "This is confidential" copy inserted by corporate
mailservers)? How many ...
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Two sided PDFs, what's the difference?
So I wanted to download the Beej's Network Programming guide, available here.
There are two links for A4 sized PDFs, one for 'one sided' and the other for 'two sided'. What is the difference supposed ...
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Firefox: Avoid splitting images and lines of text when printing
When printing from Firefox (on any OS, I think), the browser splits images and sometimes even lines of text across page breaks -- the top part of an image shows up at the bottom of page n, and the ...
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Printable A5 booklet on A4 sheets from A5 pages using psutils, pstops and CUPS?
I want to create a CUPS printer queue which accepts books with A5 pages and automatically arranges them as booklets on A4 paper before printing them. Essentially, this is done wonderfully using the ...
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How to remove unnecessary webpage elements when printing
Is it possible to remove all the unnecessary elements in a webpage. using firefox or other browsers.
So that when you print you will not see the headers and footer, advertisments
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Why are my PDF files printing differently?
I have an in-house application which generates PDF files for different reports. Now based on the report type, the PDF files are generated by 2 different applications - first one being neevia Doc ...
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How do I print with the screen stylesheet?
A number of websites that I use have really bad stylesheets for the print media, but their screen stylesheets are quite good. Is there any way to tell my browser to ignore the print stylesheet and ...
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Force scaling when printing an alien paper size
Is there any way to automatically rescale a print job to a paper size supported by the printer even if the application printing has used a different paper size?
I have lot of problems with different ...
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Mac equivalent of FinePrint's ability to merge print jobs
One of the nice features of (Windows only) FinePrint is that it allows you to queue several items to be printed at some stage, but only prints them when you want to. This means you can combine two ...
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Specify different username when printing to a lpr printer
My school requires me to use a different username than my Windows username in order to print. With Linux lpr I could just specify -U username, but there is no such option for Windows lpr (and even if ...
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How can you invert the colors of a PDF?
I need to invert all the colors of a PDF document (background, text, graphics, and images). I want it persistent in the file so the inverted viewing options, that some viewers offer, won't help.
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How do I make sure the print dialog settings are reset when Adobe Reader is closed?
we operate a printshop. several terminals (winvista+ms-steadystate). set up from 1 image.
lots of users and files daily. when a user leaves a terminal and quits adobe reader, strangley on some(!) ...
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How to get the Excel header on each print page to be the first row of the table
I need the first row in an Excel spreadsheet to print as the header on all pages.
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Beautiful paper prints with Emacs
Is it possible to get beautiful prints in GNU Emacs? By default using M-x print-buffer the output looks ugly, with big fonts and no margin.
For source code it would be nice to get a pretty font, ...
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Why does Adobe Reader 9 report that a document could not be printed because there were no pages?
When I try to print a PDF I get a message box that says "the document could not be printed". I then get another message box that says "there were no pages selected to print". The sender could print ...
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Are color laser printers good enough to print photos?
Are color laser printers good enough to print photos? Or they too expensive and produces low quality photos?
