Questions tagged [printing]
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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Okular print multiple pages per sheet has been greyed-out/deactivated
As the question goes, the page setup options remain greyed out whenever I want to print multiple pages a side and save it as a pdf document in a file (the print to file option). I do not have a ...
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Error printing from Chrome: "The selected printer is not available or not installed correctly. Check your printer or try selecting another printer."
This problem keeps recurring on a Windows 10 PC. When trying to print from Chrome, the dialog window states "The selected printer is not available or not installed correctly. Check your printer ...
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How can I print 4 pages at a time?
PROBLEM:
I have been manually copy-pasting pages in sets of 4
i.e. 1-4, 5-8, 9-12..so on, while trying to print pages.
I haven't found a way to do this automatically.
(If there is a command for ...
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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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CUPS “Unable to get printer status”
Recently after a system upgrade I can no longer print from local networked HP printers.
The error message on the CUPS Jobs webpage is
"Unable to get printer status".
When not printing, the output ...
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Missing characters when printing in linux
I have a pdf that I was printing recently, and on the final printout there is a single character that doesn't print. It is the greek letter phi, and the pdf was built with pdflatex. The phi shows up ...
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What is the solution for printing plastic ID cards from a PHP/MySQL Application?
I have a student management system written in PHP with a MySQL backend and I need to implement a solution to print the student's College ID to a plastic ID Card Printer.
The possible solutions i can ...
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Assign IP address to a Virtual Printer
Is it possible to assign an IP to a virtual PDF Printer? Is there any Virtual printer software that automatically can do this?
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Microsoft Word Print/Save as PDF now “Untitled” instead of DOCX filename
Just recently my copy of Microsoft Word for Mac Version 16.72 (2021) has stopped titling filenames of PDFs when exported from the Print dialog.
Steps:
Open or create a Word DOCX file.
Hit commandP, ...
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Windows Explorer Print through specified application
How to setup the default application to use for print.
Sequence to test
Open Windows Explorer (Win+e)
Right click on a tiff image
Select "print" item
A custom application (for example IrfanView) ...
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How can I print a large image to multiple pages on mac os?
I have a large png image. I want to print it to pdf with paper size 8.5x11 across multiple pages - the image should be scaled up to fit the paper width and since the image is tall, it should be split ...
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cannot send long path filename (UNC path) to printer
i'm using long path names with UNC (UNI), for example:
\\?\c:\tmp......\file1.prn
but when i try to send the file to a printer on windows command-line, for example with copy/print command, it shows ...
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Modify VB Script that saves .pptx/.docx/.xlsx to .pdf, so that it prints .pptx/.docx/.xlsx to .pdf
Every day I print a handful of .pptx and .docx files to .pdf files. I scoured the internet to find the script linked here. I will paste the script below, too.
The script works great at generating ....
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lpr says "unknown printer" but lpstat shows printer correctly
I'm configuring a USB printer in Debian 8.9 and am running into issues. I have configured the printer using the CUPS web interface and named it "elise". I have run lpstat which shows :
$ lpstat -p -...
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Scripting a batch file for installing network printers
I would like to write a batch file to install multiple network printers in our office to a PC. I attempted a file with one printer using the Generic/Text driver and IP address of 192.168.11.70. When I ...
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How can I scale printouts in Google Chrome like Firefox can?
Chrome is slowly wooing me from Firefox.
When I print on Firefox, I can have the page print at 80% of normal, and get smaller print and MORE on a page. When I try that on Google Chrome, I get the ...
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VBA - reformatting a 3 column into 9
My data looks something like this, very very long vertically.
#1, name1, number1
#2, name2, number2
#3, name3, number3
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#2000, name2000, number2000
I want to reformat into 2 or 3 sets of column ...
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How do I print duplex on a P115w?
I'm going to buy a new P115w printer.
With a Phaser 3155 I press the Reset button (triangle symbol) to print the other side after refilling the paper manually, however the P155w has only one button (...
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Print directly to the printer via the browser on the tablet, over the web
I wish to be able to print directly to the printer via the browser on the tablet, over the web. Can I simply get a tablet, connect a USB printer and open Chrome with the --kiosk-printing switch in the ...
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Why does my text print black instead of grey in Word 2010?
I'm writing a document in Word 2010 and I need some of the text to print as grey. It's designed so but when I print, all text comes out black. I don't see anything in the Printer Settings. How do I ...
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Specifying printing options to LibreOffice on the command line?
I'm attempting to come up with some means of converting .pptx files to a PDF format from the command line. I have set up a cups-pdf printer to which I can actually send jobs, and so far I have it ...
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How to print large and complex files without upgrading printer memory
I have a HP LaserJet P2055d printer. Printer memory is 64 MB and printer processor speed 600 MHz. Printing large documents containing scanned images and complex vector objects takes a long time. Is ...
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Printer Sharing - Ubuntu and Windows 7
Here is a description of my setup:
I have a Brother DCP-7020 USB laser printer hooked up to a desktop computer running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Xubuntu desktop, if it matters). In my room is a laptop with ...
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Printing in Windows 7 64bit
I have a Laserjet 6MP (parallel printer port only) connected via a USB to Parallel cable. It used to work fine, until I built a new computer and moved the printer to the new PC. Windows sees the ...
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Printing pages to different feeds (pdf) WINDOWS
We are currently sending out letters that print:
Letter on letter-head (customized for recipient)
Instructions on regular paper (customized for recipient)
These letters are all sent automatically in ...
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How can I print two small files on the same page with a2ps?
I'm using Ubuntu Linux 12.0.4.1 LTS and I like the auto-formatting that a2ps does. I just want to print several small files using as few pages as possible.
Example: a2ps file1.c file2.c file3.c file4....
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Print long JPG onto multiple pages OSX
I have a really long jpg comp I want to print out and annotate. My print options are to scale or fit to page, but I want it to print it to multiple pages, the cutoff points aren't important. I want it ...
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Automated printouts from a wireless printer
I have a wireless printer which is always on, and an always on fanless Linux server.
Looking at the mprinter project on Kickstarter I started to wonder if there is a way for me to prepare an ...
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Accept print jobs from serial port, spool to USB printer
I've got a USB printer (HP LaserJet 1018) connected to my Windows 7 desktop. I also have a USB infrared adapter (Actisys ACT-IR224UN-Li) which presents itself as a raw serial port, currently COM3.
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How Can I Print Under A Username Different Than The One I'm Logged In As?
I bring my own personal laptop to school where my login is nickname. However, in order to print to the school's printers the username that sends the print job must match my school's AD login, ...
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Postscript mutilates font
I am using the DejaVu Serif font in LibreOffice 7.5.4.2. An exported PDF looks like this:
However, when I print that PDF (or export it into PostScript), it transforms to:
The italic "M" is ...
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How do I use the gimp print plugin dialog instead of the windows 11 print dialog in gimp 2.10?
I want to set DPI and see what else gimp has to offer for printing images as sharp as possible. But after installing gimp 2.10.34 under Windows 11, it just opens the Windows default printing dialog (...
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How do you create a new custom preset page size in excel
Microsoft excel does not let me create custom page size outside of the preset ones (word lets you make your own size) now this is annoying since we occasionally print in long (8.5in by 13in).
Notice ...
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How can I print straight to a thermal printer without dithering?
In a hardware store, we use a USB thermal printer (CITIZEN CT-S4000) at the desktop POS to print receipts on 104mm thermal roll. The billing software runs online, and generates a pdf receipt, which we ...
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How do I install on Windows a printer shared from cups on Linux?
I got an industrial printer that doesn't have drivers for Windows. Someone wrote a driver for Linux and it works great.
I want to print from Windows.
The Adobe PS Drivers are discontinued and all ...
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Can Visual Studio print a colorized C++ file from the command line?
I teach and I often have a large number of C++ source files from students that I'd like to pretty-print for grading as PDFs using Visual Studio's formatting and syntax coloring. I know how to do ...
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Print to Side by Side views in Notepad ++
I have two files in side by side view tabs in Notepad ++ (Vertically Synchronized)
is there a way to print both files on the same page so I don't lose the formatting???
Side By Side documents
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Print all open tabs in a Chrome window
I have to print frequently a couple of dozens of PDF pages open in one Chrome window. The manual process involves Cntrl+P for print; hit ENTER to proceed with the pinting; press Cntrl+DwnPg to go to ...
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How do I automatically print image files into pdf files using windows command lines
Edit: It seems my friend can install IrfanView if that helps.
I'm helping a friend to automate the task of printing every single image file in a folder into multiple PDFs: Each image goes to a ...
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"Your margins are pretty small..." errors when printing
On sending to print I receive the following message:
Your margins are pretty small. Some of your content might be cut off
when you print. Do you still want to print?
I don't know why it appears.
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CLI command to print sheet2 from libreoffice calc .ods
Is there a commandline option to print sheet2 from file.ods using the terminal?
I tried loffice, localc, lp, lpr and am unable to specify the precise sheet I want to print. Any ideas on this?
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HP Laserjet Printer - Google Cloud Print printing multiple pages
At work we have a HP Laserjet printer. We have it connected up to Google Cloud Print so that everyone around the workplace can connect and print. Recently we have had over 200 pages printed with some ...
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Google Chrome Printing: Pages Settings - Set Default to Custom
Is there a setting within Google Chrome version 74.0.3729.169 to always display the custom page range when selecting print or ctrl+p.
The default is set to "All" pages. I would like it to already be ...
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Error when running hp-setup "no device selected"
I have a new printer HP LaserJet M402dne that I would like to install using the command line.
I run the following command :
hp-setup -i
I am then asked to choose a connection type, I choose USB and ...
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Google cloud print destinations spinner spinning for a long time
Every time I print in Chrome windows X64 v.71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit) I am seeing a spinner next to print destinations that can take upwards of 60 seconds before I can print. I do not ...
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2 HTML pages generated by the same code print out at different sizes, even though the sizes are identical in the browser
We have two pages generated by a vendor solution the we have customized. The pages are of the same type (that is, the same forms are filled out to create the HTML that is printed.) The only thing that ...
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How to silent print in Chrome?
Chrome Version 70.0.3538.67 (Official Build) (64-bit)
I created a shortcut which has the following target value:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --args --disable-print-...
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AirPrint does not work with Netgear router, HP LaserJet and macOS
I have a Netgear WNDR3700v5 router to which I have connected a MacBook Pro running macOS 10.12.6 and a HP LaserJet MFP 130FW printer.
The printer is set up to connect via AirPrint / Bonjour. Usually, ...
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Is it possible to print PDF slides off-centre?
not sure sure where to ask this: I have a slideshow in PDF format from class (it is only available as PDF, no other formats).
I wanted to print the slides off-centre on the paper. For example, have ...
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Is it possible to use a network printer without installing any driver? How
I´ve a shared printer on Raspbian and I want to use from my Windows 8.1 without install any driver on the Windows OS.
I can see the printer, but when I try to configure it, windows is asking for the ...
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