Changing Printer Preferences

In addition to printer properties, you can also view and change personal printer preferences, such as orientation, page order, pages per sheet, paper size, paper tray selection, copy count, and print quality and color. When you change personal printing preferences from the Printers and Faxes folder, the default settings are changed for all documents you print to that printer. When you change personal preferences from the Print or Page Setup dialog boxes within a program, the settings are changed for individual documents. The available printing preferences depend on the printer.

Change Printer Preferences

Click the Start button, and then click the Control Panel.

Double-click the Printers icon in Classic view.

Select the printer icon you want to change.

Click the Select Printing Preferences button on the toolbar.

Click the tab with the option you want to change; tabs and options vary depending on the printer.

Change the printer preferences you want to modify.

Click OK.

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Click the Close button.