Chapter 8
Printing and Scanning Your Work
IN THIS CHAPTER
Printing and scanning from apps
Printing files, envelopes, and web pages
Adjusting how your work fits on a page
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 other pages, ads, menus, and printer-ink-wasting images. You also discover how to print from apps, print Copilot output, and make your own PDFs. (For details on setting up a printer, see Chapter 12.)
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.
When you need to turn a piece of paper or printed photo into a file on your PC, check out the last section of this chapter. It provides a rundown ...
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