Chapter 11
The Printing Chapter
In This Chapter
Locating printers in Windows
Setting up a printer for your laptop
Configuring the default printer
Using the Print dialog box
Canceling a print job
Creating a PDF instead of printing
Finding a portable printer
An important part of a computer system is the hard copy output device, commonly known as a printer. Lugging around a printer with your laptop doesn’t really fit with the whole wireless-mobile-carefree motif promised in the laptop’s brochure. That doesn’t preclude your ability to print something. It just means you need to be more clever.
The Great Printer Hunt
When it comes to using printers, your options on a laptop are pretty much identical to the options for a desktop: You peruse the list of available printers and then print ...
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