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Printing from windows, Printer driver settings – Oki C 3400n User Manual

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C3400n User’s Guide

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Printing from Windows

Your printer’s menus provide access to many options. See

“Using the printer software” on page 61

for more information.

The Windows printer driver also contains settings for many of

these items. Where items in the printer driver are the same as

those in the menus, and you print documents from Windows,

the settings in the Windows printer driver will override those

items in the menus.
The illustrations in this chapter show the printer in

Windows XP/2000. Other Windows versions may appear

slightly different, but the principles are the same.

Printer driver settings

A printer driver is a software program that controls a printer.

The printer driver feeds data about printing requirements for a

document to the printer.
You can make printer driver settings either from Windows

Printers window (called “Printers and Faxes” in Windows XP)

or from within a Windows application. The driver settings you

make from the Windows “Printing Preferences” dialog box are

essentially default settings and will be remembered from one

Windows session to the next. The driver settings you make

from within a Windows application, e.g. in the File -> Print

dialog box in Microsoft Word, are those required for a

particular job and will not be remembered the next time you

open this application. In both cases, you can save and name

(on the Setup tab) specific sets of driver settings which can be

recalled for future use.