Chapter 8

Printing and Scanning Your Work

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Printing and scanning from the Start menu’s apps

check Printing files, envelopes, and web pages from the desktop

check Adjusting how your work fits on a page

check Troubleshooting printer problems

Occasionally you’ll want to take text or an image away from your PC’s whirling electrons and place it onto something more permanent: a piece of paper. This chapter tackles that job by explaining all you need to know about printing.

I explain how to print just the relevant portions of a website — without the other pages, the ads, the menus, and the printer-ink-wasting images.

You discover how to print from the Start menu’s gang of apps as well as from the desktop’s programs.

And should you find yourself near a printer spitting out 17 pages of the wrong thing, flip ahead to this chapter’s coverage of the mysterious print queue. It’s a little-known area that lets you cancel documents before they waste all your paper. (I explain how to set up a printer in Chapter 12.)

If you prefer to turn paper into a file on your PC, this chapter closes with a rundown ...

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