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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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Why am I seeing pixelated text when printing images to PDF?

Every time I print scanned images (like JPG or PNG) to PDF, the text is pixelated, while the source image isn't. No matter what PDF writer I use. Don't have Adobe, but have tried 5-6 other ones with ...
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Why does my Xerox network laser printer silently fail to print some documents?

I've recently encountered a mysterious problem with my Xerox Phaser 6180N networked colour laser printer in which certain documents fail to print from Microsoft Word. When the problem appears the ...
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Brother HL-L2325DW Printer on Arch Linux Will Not Print, Despite Showing That the Job Has Completed

As the title says, I cannot get my printer (A Brother HL-L2325DW) to print. It beeps at me a few times once it receives my print job, and CUPS states that the print job is complete, but beyond the few ...
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How do I 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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How to save a page in PDF with a single click in Google Chrome?

I would like to accomplish to save a page in PDF with a single click in Google Chrome. Basically have a button or keyboard shortcut which allows me to save a page as PDF in one single action. I want ...
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How to convert a PDF document to PNG?

Is there a free way to convert a PDF document to a PNG image?
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Ignore Null Field when printing name, middle I., and last name

Using Word in a multi-print document, I would like to ignore null fields when printing. As it is now, things are fine when a filled middle initial is present, but if no middle initial is present, it ...
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Printing to A3 printer from Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on Windows 7

I normally print documents to an A4 printer, so I have an A4 printer set as my default printer. However, I also often need to print larger PDFs from Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. When I open Acrobat and ...
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net use to connect a shared printer

I have a Windows 7 machine connected to a printer. I use another PC (in the same group) running Vista to connect this shared printer via COMMAND: net use lpt2 \\Win7NAME\SHAREDPRINTERNAME /...
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download related to pdf

how can i download this file in which you can view it but you can't( download , print , copy) http://shodhbhagirathi.iitr.ac.in:8081/jspui/image/pdf/web/viewer.html?file=/jspui/bitstream/123456789/...
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Trouble printing over the internet through router to private network

I am trying to send a print job from anywhere to a home network via its public IP address (I tried with and without a port number added ex. 40.230.2.2:9100), normal port number for RAW being 9100. I ...
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How to convert a webpage to PDF with preserving its look (exactly as on web browser) and text/links?

I'm looking for a way to convert a webpage to PDF, but preserving the webpage's look. Also preserving webpage's text (being selectable), searchable [Generating image screenshot for the webpage would ...
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Print Serial Number or Incrementing Number in Word Document Footer

I feel this is likely a dup, but I can't find good answers and "Question's that may already have your answer" only shows an answer for excel. I'm looking to track documents printed by having a serial ...
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Printing long comments in Microsoft Word

I have a Word document with many long comments. If I try to print it normally the comments are cut off. I can print just the comments themselves following these instructions but I need to be able to ...
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lpr does not see default printer - why?

I've set my only printer to be the default printer via CUPS, which lpstat confirms $ lpstat -p -d printer MFC-9840CDW is idle. enabled since Fri 03 Jun 2016 09:05:46 AM Online system default ...
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Print each bookmark of a PDF separately

I have a very large (1000 page) PDF which contains about 100, ten page each documents one after the other. I would like to have them sent to my office printer as individual files so my office printer ...
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How to cancel print jobs on network printer?

I want to cancel all the print jobs that were sent to certain network printer. I don't have the access to computer from which the jobs were sent. Example: Jobs were sent to network printer from ...
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Excel automatic reduced print size - all print size change to small, all positions are wrong

My company have one file shared for users, it provided by another company and set the print area NOT allow to change (password protected) User A, B using same configuration computer, same OS and ...
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How can I make Excel print row by row, one page wide?

I have an Excel spreadsheet that has columns A-U and rows 1-50.  When I print it at a readable scale, it prints in a three-page-wide format: page 1 is columns A-F wide and rows 1-20 long, page 2 is ...
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Printer prints contents only on half of the A4 page

Brother MFC-J44200DW Windows 10 Wlan connection I have issues with my printer. Every time I try to print an A4 page from word or a pdf my printer prints it in on half the size of the A4 page. It looks ...
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How can I make a local printer available over the network via internet printing protocol?

So I have an old Canon printer and a Chromebook I want to be able to print from, The Canon printer has network functionality but does not show up to the Chromebook due to lack of drivers and IPP ...
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Sony UP-DR150 printer setup confussion on Windows 10

I'm at my wit's end after spending days trying to get my Sony UP-DR150 photo printer up and running. Despite the seller's assurances that it works flawlessly on both Windows 10 and 11 (even providing ...
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Libre Office writer How to print only page 2 of a 5 page writer document

My operating system is Windows 10, Printer is HP color laser jet CM1312nfi MPF, LibreOffice 7.5 I have created a Libre Office writer 5 page text document with 1 "picture" a screen shot of a ...
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Print two pages on one sheet in Microsoft Word

Can Microsoft Word print two pages per sheet? There is a "2 Pages Per Sheet" setting in the print dialog but I'm struggling to set the other parameters (page size, paper size, orientation) ...
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Slow to connect to printers shared on Windows Server 2012

We have a Windows Server 2012 R2 server setup to share multiple printers on our domain. Connecting to the first printer on the server during a session takes roughly 45 seconds for the print dialog ...
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Driverless printing with CUPS: client-error-bad-request / "Print job was not accepted."

I’ve just installed Debian Bookworm (12) on my workstation and can’t print via network on my Kyocera M2040dn anymore. It worked on Debian Bullseye (11) but I can’t recall if I needed to install the ...
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Okular (on Ubuntu 9.10) prints multiple pages per sheet (n-up) very small

I'm trying to print a set of beamer slides with multiple slides per page (4-up or 6-up). When I select 4 pages or 6 pages per sheet in the Okular print dialog, the pages print quite small (perhaps ...
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How to print a LibreOffice Base Relation Design?

I've gone to the trouble of creating a graphic representation of my database design using Relation Design tool in LibreOffice Base. How can I print that out/export it to a PDF to share with others, ...
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How to use HP M209dw printer on LAN only (disconnect/block it from “phoning home” on the Internet)?

I don't want my HP M209dw printer to chat with its corporate mothership any more. I just want to use the hardware I bought and have it work for me on my local network without complaining about the ...
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How to distill / rasterize a PDF in Linux

We have a printer at our office that prints PDF files from a USB stick. It prints most files okay, but it has problems with some, especially ones generated with Latex. Some PDFs it simply refuses to ...
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MS Word remove the Header and footer margins not working

I am trying to make heading-letter but no matter what can't remove margins from header and footer. Changing margins to 0 Returning error (even by clicking ignore margins in image 1 still exist) Any ...
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Samsung CLP-310N printing horizontal lines and ink trail smear on laser printer

I recently pulled out an old Samsung laser printer, model CLP-310N It seems to work fine for the most part, except on every single page, it leaves horizontal lines and a toner smudge. It even happens ...
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Scanner is only detected and not the printer

OK. I have a new Epson L210 printer, a multi-function printer. But whenever I connect it to my Windows 7 64-bit computer, the only detected function of the printer is the scanner. There is no ...
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How to add Lexmark E120 on Windows 10

I'm trying to install Lexmark E120 printer on Windows 10, but unfortunately without success. I'm getting "Driver is unavailable" error message in Printers & scanners. I was checking ...
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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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Printing an entire notebook in One Note

how do I print an entire notebook in One Note? I have not found any ability to do this and posting on the web seem to indicate it cannot be done. However one post said to save it as a PDF and then ...
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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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HP printer not printing

I am running macOS 10.15 Catalina and have a DeskJet 6940 printer that has stopped working. I can successfully send a job to the printer. It successfully runs through the printer, positioning the ...
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How to print multiple copies of one page, multiple pages per sheet in Windows 10?

I have a document which will print on a single sheet of A4 paper. I want to produce multiple copies of this at the A5 size. I wish to do this by printing two copies of each page per A4 sheet. Then ...
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How to read content of spool file?

I have a printer name is Canon LBP3310. It's a share printer, print language is CAPT 3.0, port is USB. I have a program, it send raw data to this printer, I can't edit this program. Spool file's ...
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How to make document dimensions match printouts

I would like to be able to specific dimensions in MS Word (*) and have them match in the real world. This seems straight forward, but when I try this they don't match. A minimal example is an empty ...
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Specify page range for lpr command

According to docs, lpr command doesn’t have an option which specifies the number of pages that should be printed. Is it possible to specify a page range for printing with lpr command somehow, may be ...
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Windows prints different margins than specified in the document

I have a Windows 11 Home Laptop that prints the wrong margins regardless of the application and format used. I have printed the following document with Word 365 for Business and Chrome (as PDF). The ...
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How can I print a batch of files with custom printer settings?

I have a collection of A3-size (tabloid size) PDF drawings which I would like to print as a batch. The particular printer I am using doesn't automatically check the paper size of the document - it ...
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Print PDF Text without color background

I am facing the following problem: See the gray rectangle under the text? I want to remove it when printing this page. Is there a way to do this?
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Word cutting off the sides of my word document?

When I print a word a document the sides are cut off. When normally view it (while editing) the full document appears, when in print view the sides are cut off. I have set no margins and this still ...
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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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MS OneNote on Mac: how to print landscape?

I would love to print a page of a notebook in landscape, as when I write in it with iPad pen it always breaks the page when I export it as PDF or print it. Do you guys know how to do so? In general, ...
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Don't switch keyboard layout if fast typing

1. Briefly Keyboard layout sometimes not switch for me, if I print my texts fast. It would be nice, if my keyboard layout switched each time, when I press Alt+Shift. I will approach any built-in ...
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NET USE LPT2: printer_port

This I understand: net use P: \\SOME_COMPUTER\SOME_SHARE net use P: \\1.2.3.4\SOME_SHARE (the second argument is a logical share on the given computer) This, I do NOT understand: net use LPT2: ...

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