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Create and use watermarks. Specify text to be placed in the background of an existing document. For example, you might want to have "draft" or "confidential" placed diagonally across the first page or all pages of a document. (The Watermark feature is only available in Windows.) Enhance pictures. Use the HP Digital Photography feature to enhance the look of your printed pictures. You can adjust contrast enhancement, digital flash, SmartFocus, sharpness, and smoothing settings to meet your printing needs. This dialog box is accessible in Best and Normal modes. Printing from notebooks and desktops (Windows) From Windows, you can print via USB, parallel, infrared and Bluetooth. The printer driver stores the default print settings for most applications. You need to change these settings when you print on media of different sizes or types, or when you want to use an optional feature like two-sided printing. You can change print settings from the software application that the document was created in. To change the default print settings for all documents, you must do so from the printer driver. The printer driver help can be activated from the Help button, the F1 key, or a question mark symbol in the upper-right corner in the printer driver (depending on the Windows operating system used). These help screens give detailed information about the driver features. Installing the Toolbox lets printer error messages display on your computer screen. See Installing the printer driver (Windows and Macintosh). To change print settings for the current document 1 Click File > Print > Properties. (The actual steps can vary; this is the most common method.) 2 Make the changes, and then click OK. The printer uses the current settings from the application you are using. To change default print settings 1 Click Start > Settings > Printers to open the Printers folder. 2 Right-click the printer icon, and then click: • Printing Preferences (Windows 2000 and Windows XP) • Properties (Windows 98, and Windows Me) • Document Defaults (Windows NT 4.0) ENWW 3-2

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±
Create and use watermarks.
Specify text to be placed in the background
of an existing document. For example, you might want to have “draft” or
“confidential” placed diagonally across the first page or all pages of a
document. (The Watermark feature is only available in Windows.)
±
Enhance pictures.
Use the
HP Digital Photography
feature to enhance
the look of your printed pictures. You can adjust contrast enhancement,
digital flash, SmartFocus, sharpness, and smoothing settings to meet your
printing needs. This dialog box is accessible in Best and Normal modes.
Printing from notebooks and desktops (Windows)
From Windows, you can print via USB, parallel, infrared and Bluetooth.
The printer driver stores the default print settings for most applications. You
need to change these settings when you print on media of different sizes or
types, or when you want to use an optional feature like two-sided printing.
You can change print settings from the software application that the document
was created in. To change the default print settings for all documents, you must
do so from the printer driver.
To change print settings for the current
document
1
Click
File
>
Print
>
Properties
. (The actual steps can vary; this is the most
common method.)
2
Make the changes, and then click
OK
.
The printer uses the current settings from the application you are using.
To change default print settings
1
Click
Start
>
Settings
>
Printers
to open the Printers folder.
2
Right-click the printer icon, and then click:
•
Printing Preferences
(Windows 2000 and Windows XP)
•
Properties
(Windows 98, and Windows Me)
•
Document Defaults
(Windows NT 4.0)
The printer driver help can be activated from the
Help
button, the
F1
key, or a
question mark symbol in the upper-right corner in the printer driver (depending
on the Windows operating system used). These help screens give detailed
information about the driver features.
Installing the Toolbox lets printer error messages display on your computer
screen. See
Installing the printer driver (Windows and Macintosh)
.