Chapter 14. Publish or Perish: The Fail-Safe Guide to Printing
In This Chapter
Connecting a printer
Using Page Setup to prepare your document for printing
Printing to most printers
Mastering the printing process
When you want to get what's on your screen onto paper, printing under Mac OS X should be as simple as pressing the keyboard shortcut
In this chapter, I scare away the bogeymen to help you avoid any printing nightmares. I walk you through the entire process as though you just unpacked a new printer and plugged it in.
Before Diving In . . .
Before I even start talking about hooking up printers, you should know a few essential things. So here's a little list that tells you just what those things are:
Read the documentation that came with your printer. Hundreds of different printer makes and models are available for the Mac, so if I contradict something in your printer manual, follow your manual's instructions first. If that effort doesn't work, try it my way — use the techniques in the rest of this chapter.
Note
The Print and Page Setup sheets differ slightly (or even greatly) from program to program and from printer to printer. Although the examples I show you in this chapter are representative of what you'll probably encounter, you might come across sheets that look a bit different. For example, the Print and Page Setup sheets for Microsoft Word include choices that I don't cover in ...
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