Quickly set the print settings

The most troublesome aspect of printing a document is to set up the printer. This process obviously increases the time and effort for printing. If you can simplify the printer setup process, you can greatly increase the speed of printing. After using a little trick, the author only needs to select or click once to complete all print settings.

1. Simplify the printer settings

Click "Start → Settings → Printer" to enter the print settings window, double-click to add a printer, install the printer driver again, Note: When the system prompts the printer driver has been installed, to select the "keep the existing driver" option. After the installation is complete, you can see one more printer of the same model in the print settings window. Right click on the newly added printer, select “Properties”, set the printer properties as required by the print draft (Economy Mode, Black and White, Graphic and Mixed Mode, A4 Plain Paper, etc.), confirm the exit, and right-click and select Rename this printer Named "draft" (pictured). Repeatedly adding printers and settings to add photos, documents, envelopes, and other printer settings. Note: The function of printing to file can be realized by selecting “FILE: (Create File on Disk)” from the “Print to the following port” drop-down list in the “Details” tab during setting.

When printing, users only need to select “Print”, and then select the printers with different names such as “draft” and “photo” from the “name” drop-down list of the pop-up print dialog box to achieve the corresponding requirements of printing, without further complicated Print settings. This method is valid for all programs. Although most printers have the ability to store print settings, after all, the number is limited, and the selection is also more complicated, and the settings for printing to a file cannot be stored.

However, there is a problem with this method, that is, some printers come with a driver installation program that cannot be added using the Add Printer function, and when you want to repeat the installation, you will be told that the driver has been installed and cannot be reinstalled. At this time, we can first select a Windows-supported printer to add, and then right-click on the newly added printer, select "Properties", and select the actual printer driver from the "Print with the following driver" drop-down list in the "Details" tab. (All installed printer drivers can be found here). The printer's properties will become the actual printer's properties. Just follow the settings described above.

2. Set up fast printing in Word

I believe many people know that in Word and Excel can use the "recording macro" function to achieve fast printing, but unfortunately Word's macro can only save the Word's own print settings, but can not record the settings of the printer properties, print jobs on different requirements It is powerless. However, if you combine the above setting methods, then you can completely achieve all the print settings by running a Word macro command.

Run Word, create a new document (Note: must be set in the new document), click on "Tools → Macro → Record New Macro", in the record macro dialog box, enter the macro name "draft", click "Toolbar" Button, from the pop-up custom dialog box, drag the macro "Normal.new Macros. Draft" in the "Command (D)" list box to the toolbar, and right-click "Normal.new Macros. Draft" on the toolbar. Button, enter a simple name (such as: draft) in "name" and close the custom dialog. At this point, there is a stop toolbar, an audio tape graphic appears behind the mouse cursor, indicating that it is in the recording macro state, and each step will be recorded.

Click "File → Print..." and click on the name drop-down list in the print dialog box to select the "draft" printer added in the previous step. Select "2 pages per page" from the zoom and "A4 210" in the paper size. 297. Click on the "Options" button, cancel the "Graphics object" in front of the hook, check the "Update Field" to confirm printing. Then click the "■" icon in the stop toolbar to stop recording the macro.

In the future, simply click on “Draft” in the toolbar to print the text in a reduced format after the field is automatically updated. The quality of the print is also the quality of the pre-defined draft.

Obviously, to do this, you need to record a lot of macros to achieve various types of printing, so it is recommended to add to the menu bar would be better. Right-click on the toolbar and select Custom. From the "Commands" tab, in the "Category (G)" list box, find "New Menu", drag it to the menu bar, right-click "New Menu" on the menu bar, and enter in "Name". print". When adding various print buttons, drag the macro directly to the menu under the "Print" menu. When printed, you can select it directly from the print menu.

The above operations are implemented in Windows 98 and Office 2000.

After editing: The author has changed the same printer into a printer with different properties and different functions according to different printing requirements, and combined with the macro commands of Office to make a shortcut button or menu. For the need to deal with black and white, graphics and text, and different papers Users of various printing tasks are very convenient, and they can also control the consumption of consumables.

Source: Network