Troubleshooting printer tips

These days there are network printers in use. Many of the times when there is need for quick printing in situations like- in the midst of meetings and conferences at short notice, we find that the prints are not coming out of the printer. Many of us feel that the printer many manufacturers are to be blamed for the shabby work. Let’s face the reality that we never have the time to read the voluminous manuals that are provided by the manufacturers. Here you can find step by step solutions to common printing jobs using a network printer.
· Ensure that the printer is powered on and there are sufficient papers loaded in the printer. Also ensure that the power cord and the network cable is snugly fixed in the printer port, both ends at the computer as well as the printer (this is not required in case of Bluetooth operated network printers.
· Select the document you want to print and open it. Select Ctrl +p and pops out the fig .1on your screen.

Fig. 1
· In fig .1 above see to it that the status is set to idle or ready. Select the page no. you want to print or all the pages whatever. Now click on the properties in fig.1 and the fig.2 pops up.

Fig.2
· Select whether you want to print on one side or on both sides of the paper by clicking on the dropdown box under duplex .Select the orientation whether you want to print in portrait form or landscape form. Next click on the paper option of fig.2 and pops out fig.3

Fig.3
· Here it is very important to select the document size by using the dropdown menu. Also select the print on box by clicking on it and select the suitable size of the paper. In the printer diagram shown in fig.3 click the mouse on number 1 or 2 to select one of the trays. Make sure that the same kind of paper is fed in the tray as you want the output. Suppose you want A4 print, load A4 paper physically in tray 2 of the printer and select 2 with the mouse on the printer diagram in fig.3. You can see how it looks in fig.4

Fig.4


Fig.5
· If you select print quality you can find the quality options by clicking on the suitable options and finally click ok. The fig.1 comes back again on the screen. Select the number of copies you want to print ok and you would get super clean printouts without any interruption.