How to access the driver screens > 19
H
OW
TO
ACCESS
THE
DRIVER
SCREENS
Most of the features described are accessed via the printer driver screens. How you access
them depends on your computer and its operating system.
The driver windows are dialogue boxes offering a wide range of choices about how you want
to print your documents. Within Windows these dialogue boxes are tabbed, within Mac the
dialogue boxes use pop-up menus.
There are two ways to access the driver features from within Windows:
1. Directly from the Windows “Printers” folder (“Printers and Faxes” folder in
Windows XP and Vista, “Devices and Printers” folder in Windows 7).
If you choose this method any changes you make will become the driver defaults. This
means they will remain active for all your applications unless you specifically change
them from within the application’s Print dialogue.
2. From your application’s Print dialogue.
If you choose this method any changes you make will usually only last for as long as
the particular application is running, or until you change them again. In most cases,
once you quit the application the driver defaults will return.
NOTE
Example driver screenshots are used throughout this manual and as such may
not represent the driver screens for your machine. Some of the features
shown on the example screenshots may not be available on your machine.
NOTE
Settings made from the printer’s own control panel are the printer defaults.
They determine how your printer will behave unless you specify otherwise
from your computer.
The driver defaults override the printer defaults.
Application Print settings override both the printer defaults and the driver
defaults.
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