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P
RINTING
FROM
W
INDOWS
Your printer’s menus provide access to many options. See “Using
the printer software” on page 83 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 C3400n printer in
Windows XP/2000. However, the options shown for the C3400n
are the same when using the C3300 model. Other Windows
versions may appear slightly different, but the principles are the
same.
P
RINTER
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.
