Printing Tips

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3 Steps To Better Digital Prints



3 simple steps you can take to get better prints from your digital photos...



1- Resolution of Image- The important factor to get a quality print, the DPI of the an image. DPI stand for numbers of dots of ink per inch that will appear on the page in both directions (Vertically and horizontally), for example 600X700 dpi.

There are some guidelines for certain printing task:


If you are going to print simple text or image then 300 dpi is best and for higher quality text or image your choice for image resolution should be 600 dpi. But if you are working with professional image quality then set dpi up to 2400.

2- Paper Quality- Paper quality playing a vital role in printing an images. Specially printer manufactures designed paper to be used with the ink in your printer. You should consider some qualities in paper like page size, paper color and its weight.

3. Printer Settings - Printer setting is also important factor in image result, but these setting almost same with the all printers, for example Paper size, printing mode (EconoMode for save toner), printing quality (Best Quality, Faster Printing and Custom) and color management.

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New Printer Installation



How to install a printer driver on a Windows XP?


To install a printer driver locally on a Windows XP based computer, follow these steps:


•Click Start, click Control Panel, click Printers and Other Hardware, and then click Printers and Faxes.

•Double-click Add Printer to start the Add Printer Wizard, and then click Next. Click Local printer, clear the Automatically detect and install check box, and then click Next.

•Click Create a new port, and then click Local Port in the Port type section.

•In the Port Name box, type the path to the printer in the following format, where server is the name of the print server and printer is the name of the printer:

•\\server\printer

•Click Next, and then select a Windows 2000 or Windows XP driver for your printer.
Click Next, and then follow the instructions to finish the wizard.

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Increase the printing speed of your printer




You can improve the printing speed of your printer with managing the print spooler option. Basically printer spooler holds your prints for some time then send to printer for print out. By default on most printers, printer spooler option is enabled but you turn off to specify that the file should be sending to the printer and not spooled.




Here printer spooler option might be different location in your printer but on most printers you can turn off by going to Start, Setting then Printers. Now right click on the icon of the printer that you are using. Click Properties and select the Advanced tab. Here click on “Print directly to printer” option. This will tie up your application until the printer has all the data, but your print job should finish more quickly. Printing directly to the printer will also come in handy if your print spooler crashes and you need to print before you reboot your PC.

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To Print on Double Sided


If you want to print on both sides of the paper, then first check whether your printer support print on both sides automatically.

If your print support duplex printing then on the file menu click on print option. In printing dialog box click on Properties option. Here you will select a check box" Print on both sides" and Ok for print.

But if your printer does not support duplex printing then you can do it manually.

Print the odd number of pages first then on the back side of pages even number. From the printing dialog box select the option "Pages" and put the odd pages range separated by commas, for example 1,3,5,7,9,11. After printing on one side of the page, change the order of pages depending on the paper feeds in your printer.

For the back side enter the even numbers into the "Pages" for example 2,4,6,8,10 or choose "Even pages" from the print drop down box.

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How to Create a Photo Album in PowerPoint 2007?


An easy way to share images, illustrations or photos is through PowerPoint. If you create a photo album in PowerPoint 2007, you can add photos from any storage media or hard disk. After you create a photo album in PowerPoint 2007, you can add captions to every picture as well as use the several options of layout, frames etc. A theme can also be added after as you create a photo album in PowerPoint 2007.

Follow these steps to create a photo album in PowerPoint 2007 and then customize it:

Open the PowerPoint application.

Select the Insert tab.

Click on the arrow under the Photo Album button and select the New Photo Album option from the drop-down menu.

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Click on the Photo album button.

The Photo Album dialog box will appear. Click on the File/Disc button in the dialog box.

Select the pictures you would like to put in the album. These pictures can be selected from your hard disc. It is possible to include many pictures in the album all at once.

You can preview every image if you click on it. The order of the photos can also be changed by selecting it and then clicking on the Move Up or Move Down button.

The Frame shape can also be customized by choosing one of the options in the Frame Shape drop-down menu.

Click on Create.

How to Add Captions to the Photo Album:

Select every slide and add a title by typing in the place for text on the top of the photo. Type the title you want for your album in the place of the words of Photo Album.

Add a subtitle if you want in the Click to Add Notes section.

How to Edit a Photo Album:

If you want to edit a photo album after you have created it, follow these steps:

Choose the Insert tab.

Click on the arrow under the Photo Album button in the Insert tab.

Select Edit Photo Album from the menu.

The Edit Photo Album dialog box will appear. Below Picture Options, check the Captions below All pictures box.

Click on the Update button.

Edit the file names which appear under each picture.

How to apply a theme to the photo album:

Choose the Design tab from the ribbon.

From the Themes group, choose a theme of your choice from the given options or from your computer.

The PowerPoint 2007 photo album has been successfully created.

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How to Print several files together with single command?



If you have many files to print, maybe these files created in same program or in different programs but you can print all these with a single command without print individually. This technique is very useful if you have many files to print and also created in different programs.


First create a temporary folder for this purpose, copy all files from different location in this temporary folder. Here you have two options, you can select all files using CTRL+A or can choose with hold down the CTRL key to select one by one.

At the end Right-click on the select files and choose Print command. Each file will be opened in its related program and printed automatically.

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How we can Print our Favorites list?


A cool tip to print our favorites list, because there is no any option to print it when you browse your favorites list, but using a method you can create a printable HTML document.

To create this HTML list, first open Internet Explorer. Here go to File option then you will find here option Import and Export, to run the Import/Export wizard Click here then Next.


Here you can select what to import and export, Select Export Favorites option then click Next button. Next you will get option which folder you want to export. You can select the top folder Favorites or just a specific folder.

Select "Export to a File or Address" option and give it a name and location. Click Next and Finish it.

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How you can Deal with your Print Screen Button?



Today a very useful tip for those who are interested to copy or download an images (Specially for Copyrights Images) from any site using Internet. Then there are two options to copy these images in Windows XP, Just open the required image page website, one option deal with this the Print Screen Button on your Keyboard and other is press Alt- Print Screen Button. If you simply press Print Screen Button after open a image from any site, here you can copies the entire windows to the Clipboard, and if you press Alt- Print Screen Button, Windows XP copy the only active window.

Now you can use any Graphic Tools like (Adobe Photoshop, Paint) to manage and print this image. Just open one tool then paste this image, this will paste all Clipboard contents into Paint. Now you can print, save this image or can do more work on this image.

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Printer cartridges: to replace or refill



New Toner or cartridges of a printer can be expensive than refill printer cartridges. We can save some money by buying refilled cartridges but the printer manufactured for example Canon, HP does not recommend the use of refill cartridges with their products for optimum printing quality and to save the printer life. The genuine inks cartridges support high quality result, printing speed and reliability in higher resolution. Here I recommend not using refills cartridges because the refilled ink may not be same quality as the manufacturer are using with the new cartridges.


When we are working with Laser printers, the printing result depends upon laser toner cartridges and drums. In refills process we only refill ink, you should also replace your printer drum with new one to keep the printing quality good.

But here I recommends, if you prefer good printing quality as well as longer printer life, always go to buy new printer cartridges with good warranty.

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A Quick way to print a Document




There are many ways to prints a document, but you can print a document quickly if you put a shortcut to the printer on your desktop and drag a document icon to it, no need to open file for printing just drag a file to printer icon and get your print.

o do this, first click Start button, Settings, then Printers ( first make sure you installed your printer driver). When the Printers window opens, hold down Ctrl and drag the printer icon to your system desktop.

Now you can drag a document icon and drop it in printer icon on your desktop. Here you will get a print quickly and with out open a file.